Fighting People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr08_Post.mp3 Humans are naturally competitive. We have to be. It’s in our nature. Nearly all mammals live within a hierarchy. This is the most efficient way. Most of these hierarchies are based on DNA. Like a regular gorilla can’t just “decide” to become a silverback. He’s […]
Critical Life Skill
Silver Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr09_Post.mp4 Language and thought are two sides of the same coin. Studying language is a trip down a never ending rabbit hole. Not things like nouns and verbs, but language itself. Like why we have it, but nobody else does. Super Penguin Like penguins and kangaroos. Some animals […]
Three Levels of One-Itis
One Itis Feels Good https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May05_Post.mp4 Remember what it was like when you had your first crush? Or even a recent one of that’s easier. Even a fictional character will do. When I was a kid, I had plenty of crushes. One on my second grade teacher. One a few fictional […]
Negative Junk Response
Hoarding Trails One of the more interesting reality shows is about hoarders. People that have so much stuff in their house, they only have space to get from their bed to the toilet, and from their bed to the front door. And if they aren’t too bad off, they’ll be a path to […]
White Noise Hallucinations
Confirmation Bias One of the most common biases is confirmation bias. We use it to choose our news sources, our friends, and the kinds of ideas we create and believe about ourselves. One way we can describe our confirmation bias is like an unconscious, instinctive, echo chamber generator. Thought Seed Finder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec18Loop.mp4 […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
Think Your Way Out
Gym Buddy There’s a guy that I talked to the gym that’s a personal trainer. I usually see them sometimes when I’m working out and I talk to him sometimes. I’m always interested in his strategy for getting new clients. He says when it comes to being a personal trainer the strategy to get […]
Thoughts Becoming Horrible Things
Hiking and Backpacking I like to go hiking. There’s basically two types of hiking. There is day hiking and there’s backpacking. Backpacking is fantastic but it takes a lot of time and it usually costs a lot of money. You need to drive somewhere far away needed to find a mountain range you can […]
Anti-Memory Energy
Pick Up Driver The first job I ever got in college was as a delivery driver. When I was in high school I had a job delivering pizzas so I figured this would be a familiar job. It wasn’t really delivery driver it was more of a pickup driver. I worked for this charity […]
Ancient Frame Battle
Meaning Is Subjective Most farmers would agree that rain is a good thing. Most elementary school kids on a Saturday morning would agree that rain is a bad thing. Meaning is something that is very subjective, very flexible and very relative. One of the best skills you can develop is the ability to consciously […]