Garden Planning A couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago, I was standing out front of this house that I had just rented. I had written it just as winter was starting and the guy that I was renting it from said that I can do whatever I wanted to the garden. […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]
Conspiracy Theory
Murder Game I’ve always liked to play card games. Especially when I was a kid I like to play card games. Most card games are based somewhat on deception and conspiring against your opponents. One of my favorite card games that I played when I was a kid was called murder. It’s not really […]
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 […]
Campfire Horror Stories
Outgoing Lunch Lady I met some of my friends for lunch recently. There’s a woman there that I’ve seen once or twice before. She’s kind of middle-aged, she’s very bubbly she has very very big boobs and she’s very very outgoing and charismatic. She has the capability to talk and talk and talk if […]
Personal Money Energy Symbol
Free Seminar A couple of weeks ago I went to this free seminar. It was at this local Learning Center. A community center type of place where they have a lot of community-based organizations> They also kind of hire out these rooms from time to time to individuals who want to teach things for […]
Brainless Human Syndrome
Why Most Of Us Can’t Think Once upon a time a very timid fellow decides to take an ocean cruise. He was very worried, as he’d never been out on the ocean. After the first couple days, he felt brave enough to venture out on the deck. But as luck would have it, as soon […]
Guru Trap
(To read about the book, The Guru Trap, please click here.) How To Avoid Being Led Astray People love following gurus. The word itself is a religious term meaning “teacher” or “priest.” But it also means the guy people follow in self-development or financial circles. It’s one thing to learn some useful information from […]
Unintended Consequences
The Unpredictable Future The human brain is extremely limited in how we perceive things. Our sensory organs can only discern a very tiny window within the data that is hitting them. Even the idea of our conscious minds is not something we fully understand. Some studies indicate that up to 95% of our behaviors are […]
Supply and Demand
Secrets Of The Global Brain These two words, supply and demand, seem very simple. They are known and supposedly understood by virtually anybody. They are ubiquitous, and if you know the words, but are a bit sketchy on the concepts, then you will fully understand them by the end of this post. Despite their simplicity, […]