Secret Fortress When I was a kid a couple of friends of mine and I were playing around this park near our house and we found this underground fort. Somebody had dug a relatively big holder was the size of a very very small room. They had dug a shelf into one of the […]
Original Entrepreneur
Networking Meetup I’ve been going to these networking meetings recently for the past couple of months. We meet twice a month every, other week. We meet in this bar restaurant place, a different place every every time. Sometimes there’s 15-20 people sometimes there are few as five people there. Recently I have noticed this […]
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 […]
Ancient Sales Techniques
Desperate Client I have a client that I deal with sometimes on Skype once or twice a month. I don’t normally deal one-on-one with clients for various reasons, but this guy had an interesting story I just had to find out if it was true or not. I’m coaching him about various sales techniques […]
Update Strategies Or Die
Lucky Accountaint Once upon a time there was a very introverted accountant. He worked for very large firm. He was very good at his job so he made a lot of money. One summer they had a picnic a company picnic and this introverted accountant won a raffle at the picnic. The prize for […]
The Freeloader Problem
Two Sides Of A Deadly Coin Way back in the day, we humans lived in small tribes of a few hundred people. Life was harsh. Getting food was difficult and dangerous. Predators were everywhere, and the food tended to run away. Animals didn’t want to be killed and eaten. Hunter Gather Instincts We humans […]
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, […]
Collapse
Success Rate Of Zero Humans have gone through two types of societal organization. One has been stable, the other has not. In this post, we will endeavor to explain precisely why this second type of society always ends in collapse. It is far beyond the scope to come up with any large scale remedies to […]
Unintended Consequences
The Unpredictable Future The human brain is extremely limited in how we perceive things. Our sensory organs can only discern a very tiny window within the data that is hitting them. Even the idea of our conscious minds is not something we fully understand. Some studies indicate that up to 95% of our behaviors are […]