Depressed Friend I have a friend, she’s mid-late 30s, very attractive, very intelligent but for as long as I have known her she’s been always very unhappy and depressed. I always assumed it had something to do with the broken heart or perhaps a deceased child. Then when I finally sat down and talk […]
Cycles Of Corruption
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 […]
Banned Sexual Secrets
Outlet Mall Trip A couple of weeks ago there was an outlet mall that opened up near my apartment. I’m always very interested in checking it out one of the reasons I like going to places like outlet malls is because they have lots of places to sit and think and write. I like […]
Corrupt Kings and Noble Mythology
Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
Modern Sorcery
Get Out Of The House As soon as I graduated from college I had to find a job as soon as I could. When I was in high school my dad and I had all kinds of conflicts. When I went away to college I was living by myself for four years. When I finished […]
Time Preference Destruction
The Death Of Every Society In a recent post, we talked about the idea of time-preference. How it is the meta skill that is behind every other skill. How the lower your time-preference is, the more easily you can delay gratification. The more you can plan your future instead of living day to day. In […]
Magic Money History
What Is Money? This is not going to be a post about how to get money. This is not going to be a post about anything related to anything that sounds like any law of attraction mumbo jumbo. What this post will be about is money, as a concept. You’ll find however that money as […]