Circus Theory In the circus, they have trapeze artists whose job it is to flip around up in the air, so people can watch this and be entertained. But to maximize the enjoyment of these tricks, they must provide a safety net for the trapeze artists. Without a safety net, the trapeze artists […]
Evil Clown Show
Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Underground Cult Camp
Horribly Dumped I have a friend who just got horrifically and unexpectedly dumped. He even was talking about shopping for engagement rings. The breakup came way out of left field, his girlfriend told him she was cheating on him with a delivery guy that comes to his work. Another friend of mine […]
Investing Super Genius
Market Bubble Story A long time ago I used to work with the sky during a market bubble. This guy got a tip from a friend of his. The tip was by this stock it;s going to go up. There wasn’t much information. There wasn’t much reason, just by this stock it’s going to go […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
The Transmitted Gift
Last Semester In College The very last semester of college for me was chaotic enlightening and very life-changing. I lived in a house with a bunch of other guys. When I moved in they had already arranged the rental agreement with the owner. They had been living there for about a semester before I lived […]
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 […]
Homeless Industrial Complex
Ex Non Girlfriend A couple of years ago there was this girl that I was really interested in. She went to my church and so I was trying to do anything I could to get together with her. She invited me to come with her one evening to help feed the homeless at a […]
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 […]