Old School https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar18_Post.mp4 Adam Smith described money making as enlightened selfishness. Right off the bat, when you start talking about money or Adam Smith, you are in the world of economics. And from the world of economics, from an academic standpoint, it sounds like a bunch of obscure rules and laws that people […]
Silver Love Linings
Love Clouds Some of the most powerful insights are also the most uncomfortable. Adam Smith mentioned a few hundred years ago that everybody is driven by selfish behaviors. This can be bad, this can be good. Really, really good. His famous line is that the butcher, the baker, the brewer don’t […]
Put Wonderful Ideas In Their Head
Be The Top https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan09_Post.mp4 Plenty of studies have been done to demonstrate human hierarchies. They stick ten people together and give them a task. They quickly, automatically and subconsciously self organize into a hierarchy. How, specifically, do they do this? If you were a seasoned pickpocket, you’d be able to pick […]
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 […]
Overlapping Selfishness
Basic Economics Recently I read this interesting book on economics. It talked about the basics of trade and said that nobody will trade anything with anybody else unless they want what the other person has more than what they have. If both people feel this way there will be a voluntary trade that will […]