Get Her! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July19_Post.mp3 Way back in high school, we read Julius Caesar. And then we had to write an essay on the theme: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. This saying has been around for a while. Is it true? It seems true. When you don’t have any power, […]
How To Be Outcome Independent
Arrow Vs. Target https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May12_Post.mp4 The idea of outcome independence is pretty common. That if you’re in a situation where you really WANT the outcome, it makes it harder to get it. This is best understood from a purely brain engineering standpoint. Let’s say you’re going in for a job interview. Not […]
Disgusting Cup Cakes
Look That Way There is a shoplifting gang that relies mainly on misdirection. They create a commotion over here, and then steal something over here. They only steal things they can later sell, either online or in a garage sale somewhere nearby. There’s this really rich guy who has an entirely fake […]
Long Game Starvation Plans
New Sheriff In Town There’s this really interesting restaurant downtown that has just recently popped up. There are a lot of rumors behind the guy who started the restaurant. The most common one is that he came into town to retire here, but only after doing research online. He figured that was […]
White Dwarfs and Black Holes
Bored On The Boat There was this astrophysicists, born in India, and further educated in the United States. He got his undergraduate degree in India, and took a boat to Europe to start his graduate degree. On his way, on the boat, in between being an undergrad and a graduate student, he came […]
The Paradox Of Societal Collapse
Marketing Genius There is a cereal company that has come up with an ingenious marketing strategy. It is a cereal targeted at kids, so they need to have some kind of gimmick. A prize in the box, some kind of game or comic strip on the back. They were slowly losing market […]
Fake Planet
Backwards Strategy The impending financial disaster and potential societal collapse is based on a very simple idea. If the economy, or even if your individual income is growing, it is a potentially legitimate idea to borrow money. As you or the economy continues to grow, your earning or earning potential will be greater […]
Ghost Town Squatters
Strange Home I watched a very interesting documentary the other day about squatters. But these weren’t your average, run of the mill squatters who are probably living in your block. The kind that find empty houses that the banks are desperate to make look like somebody is living there to keep housing prices […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Sensory Deprivation Hypnosis
Data Input System There are only a few ways data from the outside world can get into our brains. Visual and auditory are the two main ones. But feeling, taste, and smell are so paths to storied memories. Teacher Error https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr27Loop.mp4 I have a friend who is a teacher. She said […]
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