Don’t Think About It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug09_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about a wizard and a king. The king is growing impatient with the wizard. The kingdom is in shambles and the king is worried about a peasant uprising. So he calls in the wizard and says: Listen, dude, you’d better produce something […]
Fake Security Blankets
Stop Hiding https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug08_Post.mp3 Once upon a time there was this golden Buddha statue. Way back in the day, in Thailand. But then the Burmese were getting ready to invade. Many of the smaller national treasures were hidden. Except for this golden Buddha. It was too big. So they covered […]
Celery Hunter Love
Slipped In Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug07_Post.mp3 Presuppositions are very powerful. For anything spoken or written, there are linguistic presuppositions. Things you must accept in order to make sense of a sentence. For example, suppose you were selling cars and you wanted to get across the idea that the car is popular. So you […]
Ditch Unattractive Behaviors
Intuitive Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug06_Post.mp3 One way to figure out the best way to behave is to ask, “what would a caveman do?” Many anthropologists believe that every single problem in modern society is down to something called “instinct mismatch.” The instincts that drive most of our behaviors were calibrated a long time ago. […]
Unhelpful Nice Behavior
Water and Ice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug05_Post.mp3 Life is filled with paradoxes. According to the harsh rules of economics, everything costs something. Plenty of philosophy and poetry is filled with ideas of expecting one thing, and getting something else. The entire history of government involvement in an otherwise smoothly functioning economy is filled with examples […]
Attraction By Elimination
Logic Solution https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug04_Post.mp3 Once upon a time, there was an American mathematician. The U.S. version of Alan Turing during WWII. Alan Turing was the dude who broke the Nazi Enigma Code. This guy, the American dude, did more or less the same thing. Used his math brain to help defeat the […]
Master The Metaphorical World
No Thing Exists https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug01_Post.mp3 Every thing is a metaphor. This is a literal, scientific truth. One I learned by watching a lecture on the Higgs Boson. Twelve, 30 minute lectures. The guy was a physicist who has written a lot of books. So what does this mean, that every thing […]
The Most Attractive Trait
Unpredictable https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July25_Post.mp3 Chaos theory is an interesting concept. Discovered a few decades ago. Chaos theory is why they can’t predict the weather. A weather system is an interdependent system. Five or so polynomial, inter-dependent variables. Poly who? Like X is NOT a polynomial variable. It is a linear […]
Ding Dong Love Pattern
Invisible Truth https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July22_Post.mp3 One keen observation about life in general was from a guy named Bastiat. An economist from the 1800’s. His observation is that it’s not what you see that’s important, it’s what you don’t see. Life is a very complex, emergent system, driven by far too many variables to count. […]
Hack Yourself Wealthy
Wealthy Writer https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July08_Post.mp3 There are plenty of ways to make money. Trading time for income is the most common. People who work on assembly lines do this. Doctors do this. This can be an hourly exchange, or a monthly exchange, or a multi-year exchange. A scientist pitches an idea to […]
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