Diamond Seller I have a friend in sales. He makes a ton of money. He is a pure natural. He’s worked in this jewelry store for a while. He sells mostly engagement rings. When he’s not selling engagement rings, he’s selling other diamonds. Probably 90% of the stuff he sells are diamonds. […]
The Importance of Savings
Old College Friend I have a friend from college that lives just north of San Diego. He lives in a small town. I forget the name. I went to visit him recently. The downtown area has fallen on hard economic times. Most of the shops are closed up, out of business. But there is […]
Hypnotic Goddess Preacher
Best Bench in Town There’s this really cool bench near where I live. It’s this one bench in this big park that is absolutely perfect. The park is kind of a long greenbelt, with this stream running through the center. There are plenty of ducks that hang out in the stream, and […]
Jesus Origin Story
A Walk In The Park I just moved to a new neighborhood. There are lots of parks, and there’s this one walking path that kind of snakes it way through all of them. It’s a cement path for both walking and biking. Most of the parks are long and narrow. They are kind of […]
Slippery Slopes of Terror
Drug Dealers If you are a drug dealer it would be fairly easy to continuously get new customers. The first thing you would do is give somebody free samples. The free samples would be something that makes him feel very good. Anything that makes a human feel very good is something that human will […]
Underground Metaphysics
Secret Fortress When I was a kid a couple of friends of mine and I were playing around this park near our house and we found this underground fort. Somebody had dug a relatively big holder was the size of a very very small room. They had dug a shelf into one of the […]
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 […]
Brainless Human Syndrome
Why Most Of Us Can’t Think Once upon a time a very timid fellow decides to take an ocean cruise. He was very worried, as he’d never been out on the ocean. After the first couple days, he felt brave enough to venture out on the deck. But as luck would have it, as soon […]
Supply and Demand
Secrets Of The Global Brain These two words, supply and demand, seem very simple. They are known and supposedly understood by virtually anybody. They are ubiquitous, and if you know the words, but are a bit sketchy on the concepts, then you will fully understand them by the end of this post. Despite their simplicity, […]
Tragedy Of The Commons
Why Are The Freeways So Crowded? This is a simple idea from economics that has far reaching ramifications. You’ll find it among roommates, farmers and even in the ocean. It’s called the “tragedy” of the commons because that’s how it always ends. Opposite of how everybody thinks it will end. Set Up Imagine you’ve […]