Up And Down https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July04_Post.mp4 Many people experience the yo-yo diet syndrome. Not just in dieting, but in any area of self improvement. For the diet, it’s pretty simple. You look at yourself in the mirror, and you are disgusted. So you create a ton of motivation to get rid of that […]
Release The Anchor Of Death
Sunken Metaphor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun19_Post.mp4 Once there was a guy on a ship. His first time on a ship. And he was on the deck, carefully walking around. He wasn’t a big fan of the ocean, but so far he was having a pretty good time. Then he heard some thunder off in […]
How To Thrive In Clown World
What Happened Next? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun18_Post.mp4 There a pretty decent series called “Band of Brothers.” A series about a few guy guys in WWII in Europe near the end. How their relationships were formed, etc. An interesting thing about this is the end credits. A few movies about real stories have these at […]
Two Critical Strategies For Life
Two Easy Rules https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun11_Post.mp4 There are two critical ideas for any kind of social success. And when I say social success, I mean ANYTHING that requires a one-on-one conversation. Even if you have the perfect degree, nobody is going to hire you if you come across as a socially inept goof. Even […]
One Phrase To Rule Them All
Words And Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr25_Post.mp4 The power of language is the other side of the power of thought. Nobody, even the world’s best scientists are sure how, specifically, they are connected. People do make assumptions about you if you don’t say much. Beyond language, we still have a lot of ways to measure […]
Hallucinated Statistics
Monty Hall There is an interesting problem in statistics and probability known as the Monty Hall problem. You can choose one of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the other two are goats. You choose door number three, and then Monty Hall opens door number one, showing a goat, […]
Blood and Semen
How Do I Do This? I read and interesting research paper recently about the rapidly diminishing skill set of most normal humans. They reported that up to 40% of people were dependent on the Internet to understand how complete basic house hold tasks. They couldn’t do simple tasks like fixing a leaky faucet, […]
Jigsaw Story Puzzle
Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Dystopian Drone Army
Rise Of The Drones Commercially available drones are pretty cool, and have some interesting applications. Primarily, they allow people to take some interesting vacation pictures, by using drones with pre-planned flight paths to circle around and take a quick ten second video. They also allow people to create interesting perspectives of sporting events, […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
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