Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
The Butter War Demon
Artificial Intelligence A Turing test is a human computer simulation named after Alan Turing, the character from the movie Imitation Game, about the British mathematician who broke the Nazi Enigma code. A turning test is when you have a computer program that simulates a human, based on the conversation. Every year they have […]
Cycles Of Corruption
Three Periods Of Japan You can separate Japanese history into roughly three very broad categories. The period before the first military ruler took over all of Japan, the period during that time, and the period after that. The period before that is commonly referred to as the “warring states.” If you’re a fan of […]
Non Normal Investments and Wealth Planning
Investment Documentary I watched this pretty cool documentary the other night on non-mainstream investments. It started off by saying the two most common investments be will make is their home and the stock market. For most people their biggest investment is going to be their home. This already indicates that most people when they […]
Overlapping Selfishness
Basic Economics Recently I read this interesting book on economics. It talked about the basics of trade and said that nobody will trade anything with anybody else unless they want what the other person has more than what they have. If both people feel this way there will be a voluntary trade that will […]
Original Entrepreneur
Networking Meetup I’ve been going to these networking meetings recently for the past couple of months. We meet twice a month every, other week. We meet in this bar restaurant place, a different place every every time. Sometimes there’s 15-20 people sometimes there are few as five people there. Recently I have noticed this […]
The Priestess
Software Expo I went to a software expo nearby my house a couple weeks ago. It wasn’t really a software expo, more like a tech expo, but it was mainly software. Most of the software was for entrepreneurs, home business type people. I saw this one booth that had a kind of interesting looking […]
Echo Bubble
Real Estate Research The other day I was watching a very interesting news report on what is called or what they were calling a echo bubble from the first housing bubble. If you look back in history at all the previous bubbles, the tulip bubble, the South Sea bubble, the Mississippi bubble, all of […]
Sexual Lunatic Generator
Free Seminar So I went to this free seminar a couple weeks ago. I like going to free seminars for three main reasons. One you get a lot of information, you meet a lot of cool people and three, it’s a great way to try and reverse engineers fantastic sales techniques. These free seminars […]
Ancient Sales Techniques
Dentist’s Office A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in a dentist office waiting for my turn. There were a couple of other people. I was going in for a follow up on regular check that I had a couple of weeks previous. I noticed there is one of the guys in the […]