Backwards Strategy The impending financial disaster and potential societal collapse is based on a very simple idea. If the economy, or even if your individual income is growing, it is a potentially legitimate idea to borrow money. As you or the economy continues to grow, your earning or earning potential will be greater […]
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 […]
Cat Hypnosis
I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
Center Of The Universe
Big Bang One cool thing about the Universe is why every person on every planet on the Universe can legitimately claim they are the center of the Universe. Since from every point space, you would measure all other points in the universe expanding equally in all directions. A cool metaphor to describe this […]
Blue Book Chaos
Too Smart To Study I saw an interview by a professor who’d written a book based on the best attempts he’d seen at cheating. The best one, according to him, was a guy that showed up with two blue books, for an essay test. He spent the entire time writing a letter to […]
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, […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Black Magic Alchemy
Slave Card Makers
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