Three Periods Of Japan You can separate Japanese history into roughly three very broad categories. The period before the first military ruler took over all of Japan, the period during that time, and the period after that. The period before that is commonly referred to as the “warring states.” If you’re a fan of […]
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 […]
Time Value Of Money
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Interview King Maker
Horrifying Class I took this college class ones that sounded on paper like it would be a good idea but it turned out to be the most terrifying class I would ever take in my life. It was billed as a interview skills class where you would learn how to answer the most […]
Jungle Rats
Cherry Blossom Season In Japan every spring they have a cherry blossom viewing event. They can’t usually predict when it’s going to happen. The feeling in Japan is very comparable to what it’s like on July 4 in the states. People go to the park to have a barbecue, they watch the cherry blossoms […]
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 […]
Temple Of Solomon
Free Seminar I went to a very interesting seminar a couple of weeks ago. It was a free seminar, the kind of seminar where they advertise in the newspaper, you show up and they give you a two-hour pitch that sounds fantastic and then they try to close you at the end for some kind […]