Famous Story https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr13_Post.mp4 Once there was a dude. A small business owner. At the end of his rope. His wife and kids had no idea how bad it was. He was thinking about getting some life insurance, so he could off himself and his wife and kids would be taken care […]
Critical Life Skill
Silver Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr09_Post.mp4 Language and thought are two sides of the same coin. Studying language is a trip down a never ending rabbit hole. Not things like nouns and verbs, but language itself. Like why we have it, but nobody else does. Super Penguin Like penguins and kangaroos. Some animals […]
Disappearing People
Backwards Thinking I have this really weird from who, somewhere along the way, picked up a really strange way to increase intelligence. I don’t know if he’s ever tested it out, but it takes quite a while. He’s otherwise a very normal guy, makes decent money, has decent relationships with decent looking ladies. […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Balloon Animal Disaster
Lost History Humans have been the same, anatomically, physiologically, intellectually and linguistically for about 200,000 years. But we only have written historical records going back about five or six thousand years or so. This means that over 95% of human history is something we know absolutely nothing about. 95% of our ancient […]
Self Flipping Pans
Crazy Inventors The Japanese are famous for their crazy inventions. Glasses with windshield wipers. AI suitcases that walk behind you. Symbolic Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun06Loop.mp4 The wedding ring is symbolic for man reasons One is that it’s round. Two is the finger it’s on. Dry Cleaning Disaster I had an old […]
Cake Baking Trifecta
Three Cakes There are three ways to bake a cake. From scratch, which takes a while, but gives you maximum flexibility. From a box of cake mix, which is much quicker, much cheaper but comes with the cost of not really knowing, for sure, what the ingredients are. Redefining Markets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun03Loop.mp4 One […]
Downtown Chicken Man
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, […]
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