No Look Pass Way back in the day, Magic Johnson was famous for his no look pass. He would toss the ball seemingly behind him, but then one of his teammates would show up at just the right time. If you looked carefully whenever he did this, you could see his eyes get […]
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 […]
Emergent Chaos
Ice Volcano There are these cool structures called ice volcanoes. They form where it’s cold enough for the ice to from on beaches. Eventually the waves will come into the beach under the large sheet of ice. If the ice sheet is big enough, it will create enough pressure for the water […]
Doppelganger Apocalypse
Artificial Scarcity A very common and old marketing strategy is to create and manage a level of artificial scarcity just enough to calibrate and maintain the desired purchasing level. For example, a company will be getting ready to release a new product, and advertise like crazy, building up massive demand. Then they purposely […]
Self Sabotaging Magic
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 […]