Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]
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 […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
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 […]