Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
Cracks In The Foundation
Next Door Construction I have this next door neighbor that has decided, he and his wife have decided, to tear down and rebuild their entire house. He let everybody in the neighborhood know how long this would take and what to expect from the construction company. I was just curious why he decided to […]
Effective Con Strategies
Con Movies There are a lot of fantastic movies about con artists. There’s movies about short-term cons and there’s movies about long-term cons. Whether you’re trying out a long-term con or a short term con the basic strategy is the same. You have to create a false reality around your target and you have […]
Hidden Treasure Beneath The Surface
Real Estate Client I have a client that I have been talking to over Skype once every couple of months. When she first contacted me she said she had a problem with closing. She was a real estate agent. She did a perfect job explaining all the benefits of the house. She did a […]
90 10 Golden Rule
Music Tutorial The other night I was watching this very interesting music tutorial. The guy was talking about songwriting strategies. He started off by going over the basics song structure. The intro, the verse, the chorus, the break, the verse, the outro. Then he started talking about how to choose a chord progression. It […]
Origins Of Long Game
End of The Stone Age There are two major discoveries in human history that essentially have informed human society ever since. The very first was the change that stopped the Stone Age and began the Bronze Age. Most historians believe this happened accidentally. If you think about how they get bronze, they find bronze […]
DNA Memory Activation
Lazy TV Watching The other night I was watching TV, just kind of flipping around the various channels. I started to become very sleepy. I didn’t really mind what I was watching. I wasn’t quite ready to go to bed and fall asleep. I was just kind of in a very lazy mood where […]
The Magic Of The Earth
Boring Movie The other night I was watching this interesting movie on TV. It started out interesting but then it started to get kind of boring. A lot of the conversations that characters were having were outside in this very beautiful garden. Because the movie was boring, I stopped paying attention to what they […]
Slowly Then All At Once
Wandering Home From Somewhere I was walking home from somewhere a couple of weeks ago I passed by this old stripmall. All of the businesses in this old stripmall had gone out of business at least a year ago so the place is essentially vacant. There was just one ginormous tree in the parking […]
No Help From The Parrot
Walking Down The Street The other day I was walking down the street I had a few plans for the day. I was expecting to be, hoping to be very productive, but I looked up and suddenly this woman that was walking towards me also looked up and our eyes locked. When this happens […]
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