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 […]
Master Criminal Fish Story
Old Pier There is a pier that’s very old in my neighborhood. It has a restaurant at the end but it hasn’t been open for a long time and it’s almost condemned but I still see people occasionally on the pier fishing. There’s this one old guy that I’ve seen a while fishing. I’ve […]
Reversions To The Mean
Camping Is Fun I’ve always liked camping. I’ve always liked different kinds of camping. When I was very young I joined Boy Scouts and that’s where I first learned all about camping and how you can do it in its various forms. When I was in college me and my friends used to go […]
We’re All Gonna Die
Book Club Lately I’ve been going to this book club. I like going to book clubs because the people that you meet at book clubs are usually more intelligent than the average person and usually have some very interesting conversations at these book clubs. The reasons I like the conversations you have at book […]
Non Normal Investments and Wealth Planning
Investment Documentary I watched this pretty cool documentary the other night on non-mainstream investments. It started off by saying the two most common investments be will make is their home and the stock market. For most people their biggest investment is going to be their home. This already indicates that most people when they […]
Satanic Overlords
Free Seminar I went to this really cool free seminar couple weeks ago. It was a type of free seminar that I particularly enjoy because the topic was how to make money in the stock market or how to make money in any market. It was set up like most free seminars where the […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
Echo Bubble
Real Estate Research The other day I was watching a very interesting news report on what is called or what they were calling a echo bubble from the first housing bubble. If you look back in history at all the previous bubbles, the tulip bubble, the South Sea bubble, the Mississippi bubble, all of […]
Lake Lady
Have A Drink? A couple of nights ago a friend of mine called and said him and a couple of other guys were going to have a couple of drinks at a local bar and I should come over. It was going to be a regular weeknight where you show up have a couple […]
Brainwashing Amnesia Assassins
Psychological Research I have a client that I talk to, work with, about twice a month over Skype. She is a self-employed entrepreneur and she provides a very unique service. She has to get her clients and customers through non-traditional advertising so she’s always interested in learning more about persuasion, influence, hypnosis and marketing. […]