Dialing For Dollars https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept12_Post.mp4 There are two ways to sell things. Or two extremes. On one extreme, is the memorized sales pitch. An extreme case would be a memorized phone pitch. A pitch written out on a piece of paper you have taped in front of you. An auto dialer […]
The Stradivarius Seduction Pattern
Learning Rhythm https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug16_Post.mp4 One time, way back in college, I took a jazz appreciation class. I knew nothing about music, at all, at the time. But I was a fan of blues-based rock. Rolling stones, Jimi Hendrix, Clapton, Led Zeppelin, etc. And much to my surprise, I learned a lot of […]
Why You Need To Qualify Everything
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Your Meta Instinct To Rule Them All
Split Test https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May23_Post.mp4 Natural selection is a very, very powerful tool. It doesn’t just work with evolution. It is also a fantastic marketing tool. The idea of a “split test” is central to natural selection. Advertisers have been using split tests for a long time. Split tests allow you to find […]
Brain Shenanigans
Bad Surgeon Once there was a brain surgeon. A very unethical brain surgeon. He had borrowed a lot of money. To become a brain surgeon. Unfortunately, for him. The people at the student loan company. Underestimated his loan payments. And overestimated his brain surgeon salary. Need More […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
Thought Juggling
Trick Photography There is a few interesting videos matching the frames per second to a propeller on a plane. This makes it look like the plane is flying without the propellers moving. There are plenty of videos like this, where people purposely manipulate the recording process to create some interesting effects. Metronome […]
Malthusian Cycles
Up And Down I used to love cycling. I had a well calibrated loop around where I used to live, up and down the biggest hills I could find. I actually enjoyed going up long hills, since I could look forward to going back down. Potential Dream Job https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar25Loop.mp4 I used to […]
Crashing Into Dirt
The Wedge There’s a beach in Newport Beach called The Wedge. It’s a perfect example of wave interference patterns, how when waves cross orthogonally, the peaks combine, as do the troughs. This means the waves rise quick and high, but they also suck up all the water to do so, so when they […]
MLM Universe
Survivorship Bias Survivorship bias is very dangerous, as it doesn’t happen inside our brains. The filtering, which is normally done inside our brain, is being done by the world, is the result of unpredictable chaos theory. But since it seems an easy task to study the winners, that’s what people do. Network […]
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