Minor League Museum I went down to a local museum. It’s not a big museum, and they don’t have their own stuff. They host traveling exhibits, but not famous ones. Nothing like King Tut or the Dead Sea Scrolls. They host smaller and lesser known exhibits that travel around. Still pretty interesting. They’re not […]
Specialty Coffee and the Speed of Light
Shared Molecules I remember the first chemistry class I took in college. It was in one of those big auditorium type classrooms. The professor comes in and the first thing he said was to close your eyes. To think about somebody you admire. They can be alive, they can be dead, but they have […]
Organic Dissipative Structures
Anthropomorphized Anthills There are two basic ways to look at an anthill. Because we humans tend to anthropomorphize things and we are so proud of our own individuality we see ants as individual entities. We don’t tend to see an anthill as one organic structure. It seems to be much more appropriate, according to […]
FOMO Ingredients
Cialdini Laws There are seven common Cialdini laws of influence that are well known by most people. The most common is something called social proof and social proof says that when a lot of people are doing something it’s going to be very hard to resist doing that same thing. The second most common […]
Dirt Is Important
Two Types of Civilizations If you look back over the long history of human civilizations you’ll find two basic types of civilizations that have popped up over time. The first and most common type the most people think about is the agriculturally based civilizations. These had these cities and these empires that were built […]
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 […]
Human Guinea Pigs
Tech Expo Recently, a couple of months ago, I went to this Tech Expo in Vegas. It was during expo season where they have a lot of different expos from a lot of different organizations. I was wondering around this one Tech Expo, it was a consumer tech Expo, so they had a lot […]
Beehive Punch
Not A Good Idea If you were out hiking you saw gigantic beehive it wouldn’t be a good idea to punch the beehive because all of the bees would swarm out and sting you to death. If you were hiking through the forest by yourself when you suddenly found yourself in wolf territory and […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]