Sweaty Humans One of the strange things that separates us humans from the rest of the primates is that we don’t have much body hair. We also sweat, which is something no other animal does. And we have arched feet. Surprisingly, these three traits allowed us to do something very useful in our very ancient […]
Collateral Attraction
Bar Investigation A few years ago I moved to a new city. Whenever I go to a new city, one of the things I like to do is check out the local night spots. Not to try and meet anybody, I find that these places are good places to people watch. To kind of feel […]
FOMO Ingredients
Cialdini Laws There are seven common Cialdini laws of influence that are well known by most people. The most common is something called social proof and social proof says that when a lot of people are doing something it’s going to be very hard to resist doing that same thing. The second most common […]
Past Live Regressions Metaphors
Necktie Change There’s a guy that I work with that recently had a kid and it’s his first kid and you can see the absolute dramatic change before and after he’s had this kid. If you have children yourself you know that nothing will change your outlook on life like having a child. From […]
Wait Until He’s Dead
Math Teacher There was this math teacher at this public high school in a kind of a low income middle income area. He was a very clever, very manipulative math teacher. He would target females. He liked the young under aged females, but he would pick them very carefully so that their parents wouldn’t […]
Ancient Human Superpowers
Weird Friend I have this really weird friend who’s always been practicing some esoteric form of metaphysics. His latest one is the strangest yet. He said he’s been practicing a form of sun gazing where you stand there in a field and stare directly at the sun. You’re supposed to get a lot of […]
Punishment Of Evildoers
Three Month Probation I’ve a friend who was a programmer a long time ago. He’s probably still a programmer today, but when he first got one of his first jobs, they told him that he had to go through a 90 day probationary period, which he was okay with. But after a couple of […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Frozen Slices Of Eternity
Art Expo I was out walking around the other day and I passed by a local museum. I’ve seen the local museum quite a bit but they had a sign saying free Expo free admission. I went inside and they were showing a lot of local photographers a lot of local work done by a […]
Truth Beyond The Veil
Landscaping Neighbor I have this neighbor that has been, for the past six months, working tirelessly on his front yard in his backyard. He’s got himself involved in a kind of do-it-yourself landscaping project. He’s a very, a guy you wouldn’t quite expect to be doing that. He’s a very blue-collar guy. He works […]
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