Camping Is Fun I’ve always liked camping. I’ve always liked different kinds of camping. When I was very young I joined Boy Scouts and that’s where I first learned all about camping and how you can do it in its various forms. When I was in college me and my friends used to go […]
We’re All Gonna Die
Book Club Lately I’ve been going to this book club. I like going to book clubs because the people that you meet at book clubs are usually more intelligent than the average person and usually have some very interesting conversations at these book clubs. The reasons I like the conversations you have at book […]
Temple Of Solomon
Free Seminar I went to a very interesting seminar a couple of weeks ago. It was a free seminar, the kind of seminar where they advertise in the newspaper, you show up and they give you a two-hour pitch that sounds fantastic and then they try to close you at the end for some kind […]
Malthus and Overpopulation
Nature Video I started watching this interesting set of science videos. It is a set of 24 videos, 30 minutes each, and they’re all about life sciences. The one I watched I can watch them out of order. The one I watched started off talking about populations and natural equilibrium. They were talking about […]
Satanic Overlords
Free Seminar I went to this really cool free seminar couple weeks ago. It was a type of free seminar that I particularly enjoy because the topic was how to make money in the stock market or how to make money in any market. It was set up like most free seminars where 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 […]
The Necessity Of Risk
New Teaching Job I have a friend who just got this job at a high school. He’s a math teacher and when he went in for the interview he was a little bit nervous. There were so many other applicants applying for this job. It’s only a part-time job, but when he got the […]
Update Strategies Or Die
Lucky Accountaint Once upon a time there was a very introverted accountant. He worked for very large firm. He was very good at his job so he made a lot of money. One summer they had a picnic a company picnic and this introverted accountant won a raffle at the picnic. The prize for […]
Unintended Consequences
The Unpredictable Future The human brain is extremely limited in how we perceive things. Our sensory organs can only discern a very tiny window within the data that is hitting them. Even the idea of our conscious minds is not something we fully understand. Some studies indicate that up to 95% of our behaviors are […]
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, […]