Basic Economics Recently I read this interesting book on economics. It talked about the basics of trade and said that nobody will trade anything with anybody else unless they want what the other person has more than what they have. If both people feel this way there will be a voluntary trade that will […]
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 […]
Equilibrium Paradox
How Much Do You Need? Most of us have a curious belief about some big thing that we want. This can either be a thing, a certain amount of money, or even a long range goal. The belief that we hold about this is that once we get that “thing,” whatever it happens to be, […]
First Beta Union
They Went Their Own Way If you are an MGTOW type, this post might make you very angry. Or maybe not. It’s not meant to be a solution to the horrible dating market that exists today. This post, believe it or not, is an interesting look at the original MGTOW group that was launched a […]
Fiat Death
How Paper Money Slowly Kills Us Quite a bold article, right? There’s plenty of posts from economic and fringe sites about the dangers of fiat currency, but I’d like to focus on how fiat currencies slowly whittle away our motivation. We’ll look at this from a personal development and motivational standpoint. What Is Money? […]
Time Preference Destruction
The Death Of Every Society In a recent post, we talked about the idea of time-preference. How it is the meta skill that is behind every other skill. How the lower your time-preference is, the more easily you can delay gratification. The more you can plan your future instead of living day to day. In […]