Need A Haircut I went down to my local barber the other day to get a haircut. But they were much more crowded than normal. No worries. I didn’t have any plans that day. I’d gotten up early that day and finished all my work. I wasn’t in any hurry. I picked up a […]
Editorial Magic
Invention of Writing Without question, one of the most profound inventions of human history was written language. Humans have been able to speak and think for at least 50,000 years, but written language has only been around for a few thousand. This means that for most of human history, our thoughts and words were […]
Hypnotic Massage Therapist
Part Time Client I have a client who is a massage therapist. I consult with her once or twice a month. Her main concern is to convert one time clients to long time clients. She has a lot of interesting advertising methods that work very well. She doesn’t have any problems getting clients, so […]
Imaginary Library Lady
Library Trip The other day I went to the library and got this really awesome book. It was fiction, about this witch who slowly transformed from a good witch into a bad witch. But in the end you find out she was really kind of a bad witch after all. But it was written […]
Serial Killer Hobby
Seize The Opportunity I recently bought this house under some pretty strange circumstances. The original owners, or the previous owners left it in foreclosure. Then this guy and his team bought it, with a bunch of others, and they were going to sell all of them to a big rental company. That’s apparently a […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
Protecting Market Share
Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]
Trailing Memory Average
Palm Reader There’s this very powerful palm reader that works out of a very nondescript shop. In fact, unless you know she’s a palm reader you won’t tell, you won’t be able to tell by the outside of the shop. Even if you walk inside the shop it’s not altogether clear exactly what this woman […]
Gossip, Rumors And Deadly Instincts
Find The Leaker There is a very common trope found in spy movies if you’re in charge of an organization and you suspect that somebody in your organization is leaking information there’s an easy way to find who the leak is. The first thing you do is you need to come up with several […]
Slippery Slopes of Terror
Drug Dealers If you are a drug dealer it would be fairly easy to continuously get new customers. The first thing you would do is give somebody free samples. The free samples would be something that makes him feel very good. Anything that makes a human feel very good is something that human will […]
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