Door To Door Wizard I used to know this guy that was always looking for ways to make money. He only sometimes broke the law, but he was always skating the boundaries of moral and ethical norms. He loved to make money, but he absolutely hated to be part of any organization. […]
Reverse Engineered Cult
Free Seminar The other day I went to a free seminar at a local community center. Since it was free, I didn’t expect much. Usually at these things, they have some basic ideas in the first half, and then the second half is some kind of upsell. Only at this one, there […]
Bias Decoupling Strategy
Fringe Mind Theory I saw this really interesting lecture the other day at a local junior college near by where my friends sister used to live. This guy has a couple PhD’s, and he’s written a few books, but he’s kind of a fringe scientist in the field of evolutionary neuro-psychology. His basic […]
Monkeysphere Exclusion Principle
What’s Your Story? Everybody has an origin story. Individuals, organizations, characters, and societies. Every society that has ever popped up has had their own unique origin story. Of who created us, why we are here, and what we are supposed to do. Dunbar Number https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Feb12Loop.mp4 There’s a little known theory in […]
Hypnotizing Chickens
Super Genius Doctor There is this therapist that, when she first got her MD, she wanted to be the most successful therapist in the world. But she wanted to do so without ever having to prescribe any drugs to her patients. So she invented a very powerful form of deep hypnosis to solve […]
Unintended Mind Control
Hobby Shop I found this used electronic shop downtown. They had a bunch of old kits, and what looked like some homemade gadgets that didn’t seem to have any indication what this was. I asked the guy behind the counter, and he didn’t know what this was either. His dad had opened […]
Jesus Origin Story
Long Game Dating I knew this guy who was had been madly in love with this girl for a long, long time, and finally had convinced her to go on date with him. He got a reservation in the most expensive restaurant in town, certain that he would impress her enough for another date, […]
They’re In Your Brain
Angry Genius There was this really intelligent engineer that absolutely hated his job. He didn’t hate his job directly, he hated his job indirectly. He was and had been really good at his job for fifteen years. But during that time he neglected his wife and family, she had an affair, divorced and […]
Secret Cupcake Party
Sweet Old Lady There’s this old lady who works in a bakery. Her husband died about a decade ago, and left her everything, so she is really well off. She doesn’t need to work, she likes very much to work, to interact with the happy customers of her bakery. She’s also been […]
Gumball Planet
ROI Instinct Every animal has within it an ROI instinct, a deep program that makes us not want to do anything unless we think we are getting more out than we put in. Of course, with humans, this is heavily skewed by our imaginations and subjective views. From the outside looking it, it […]
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