Movie About Financial Collapse A couple of weeks ago I saw a movie that was a very shallow metaphor about the financial crisis from 2008. There was a scene in the movie that is similar to many scenes in many movies where they have the expert looking at another character and explaining to this other […]
Reversions To The Mean
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 […]
Creativity Enhancement
Electronics Expo A couple of weeks ago I went to this electronics expo. When I first went I didn’t really know what to expect. I think I saw an ad for it in a magazine that I was reading somewhere outside of my home. I didn’t really think too much about what it was […]
Secrets Of Inventions
Natural Trade Anthropologists will tell us there’s four basic kinds of trade that take place between humans, both modern humans and ancient humans. The first type is trade a thing for a thing, meaning I give you something now and you give me something back of equal value. The second type is trade thing […]
Donut Shop Economics
College Job When I was in college the first job I got was that a donut shop. At first it seemed familiar because I had a job at a donut shop in high school except my job at the donut shop in high school was just showing up, working in the afternoon selling, donuts taking […]
Rise To The Occasion
Elementary School Nightmare When I went from elementary school to junior high school it was particularly terrifying because when I was in elementary school I had a lot of friends that I had made over the years. I was familiar with the location. but when I went to junior high school it was completely new […]
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 […]
Jungle Rats
Cherry Blossom Season In Japan every spring they have a cherry blossom viewing event. They can’t usually predict when it’s going to happen. The feeling in Japan is very comparable to what it’s like on July 4 in the states. People go to the park to have a barbecue, they watch the cherry blossoms […]
Think Your Way Out
Gym Buddy There’s a guy that I talked to the gym that’s a personal trainer. I usually see them sometimes when I’m working out and I talk to him sometimes. I’m always interested in his strategy for getting new clients. He says when it comes to being a personal trainer the strategy to get […]
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 […]
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