TV Charisma https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar20_Post.mp4 Halt and Catch Fire is a pretty good TV show. It’s a four season show that covers the rise of the PC and the Internet. It’s a fictionalized version, but it’s pretty accurate. The competition for the first PC, then the first couple search engines, then the first browsers. […]
Drop Ambition Breadcrumbs
Five Years? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19_Post.mp4 A common question you get in interviews is: Where do you see yourself in five years? I never really liked that question. One, because I never had a five year plan that included the company I was applying for. But mainly because my five year plans are nobody’s […]
The Ambiguity Attraction Pattern
Own Your Answer https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar18_Post.mp4 We humans love ambiguity. We love the feeling that we can decide what things mean. We also love the feeling of figuring things out. Not necessarily to get an objectively “correct” answer. But to come up with answer we feel is the right answer, for us. […]
The Most Coveted Human Instinct
The More Things Change https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10_Post.mp4 One of our best features as humans is something called a collective memory. Many animals can learn. One common things many “wild” animals learn is a simple equivalency. Humans = Free Food They see humans, and if they’ve learned this, the start to carefully move close. […]
Language Flow State
Unconscious Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar08_Post.mp4 The flow state is a very interesting psychological state. One that sports psychologists have been keenly interested in. One idea is that it represents the top of the Maslow hierarchy. The temporary yet blissful state of “self actualization.” It kind of make sense from a biological, mind-body perspective. […]
How To Demonstrate Real Authority
Higher Is Better https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar02_Post.mp4 Most animals live in hierarchies. The ones that don’t are more of the loner types. Like bears or sharks. Animals that live in hierarchies do so because it’s much more efficient that way. One way to think of groups of animals is as a singular organism. […]
Beware The Rattlesnake In The Box
Two Persuasion Models There are two basic ways to persuade somebody. Inside out, or outside in. Most of us use the outside in approach. We’ve got a fantastic idea in our brain. And since that idea lives in our brains, we LOVE it. And since WE love it, we assume […]
Metaphysical Trigonometry
All In One Disaster A long time ago I bought an all in one printer. At the time, I thought it was pretty cool, even though I didn’t need a scanner or a fax machine. This was a long time ago, and it was one of the cheapest I could find. Heart […]
Social Status Death Trends
Health Boom I read an interesting study the other day that wanted to find any correlation between recent health food trends and the actual health benefits of the food trends. The assumption was that there would be at least some correlation between how popular any particular diet was, and how beneficial it was from […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
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