Three Kinds of Operations There are three types of businesses, from a purely financial standpoint. There are hard money profitable businesses. They spend money on raw materials, and turn those raw materials into higher order goods, and make a profit. Then there are businesses based on debt. These are businesses that […]
She Went Inside Her Brain
Look Inside My Brain I saw this TED talk a while ago about a lady who was a neurologist and then had a stroke. And she explained in full detail what it was like, how her brain slowly more or less went offline. And how even dialing the phone became something utterly confusing […]
Self Deluded Geniuses
Islands and Oceans One of my favorite science metaphor is about the relationship of what we know, to the stuff we don’t know. What we know is like the coastline of a small island. What we don’t know is the huge ocean. Which means the more we discover things that we know, […]
Wrong Way Persuasion
Almost Become Rich I had a friend who scored a potentially lucrative job interview. Lucrative, of course, only if he managed to get the job. To be able to persuade the hiring manger to hire this person. Luckily, the job interview wasn’t for a couple of weeks. So he had plenty […]
Termite Cavities
Food Hypnosis Supermarkets, or rather their marketing departments, have long known how to covertly influence people. Sometimes based on the layout of the supermarket, or the way the food is chemically altered to become more addictive. But recently they have been experimenting with new technology that is far more dangerous. Natural Taste […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
Social Proof Gone Mad
Unfounded Experiments Soon after the end of WWII, the CIA started doing social proof experiments. This was after they were first created, and had a huge budget and were simply doing as many experiments as they could. They started to artificially change fashion trends, speaking trends and buying trends, just to see how […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
Alien DNA Determinism
Self Help Loops Any kind of self development absolutely requires an honest feedback loop. You need both success data and failure data in order to better calibrate the targeted behavior. This is true in sports, music, investing and even business, in the case of profits and losses. No Aliens https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May09Loop.mp4 The Fermi […]
Planetary Murder Cult
No Lights There’s a pretty well known urban legend about head lights. As the legend goes, murderers will drive around at night with their lifts off. Whoever blinks at them to turn on their lights is their target. Scavenger hunts are pretty common and usually pretty enjoyable. Got Any Wooden Clothespins? […]
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