Flexible People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept23_Post.mp3 Our bodies are built to conform to our environment. At least to an extent. Humans have thrived in all kinds of different environments. One way to see this is how humans have developed all kinds of different farming techniques based on the location. Cutting flat spaces out of […]
Hack Yourself Wealthy
Wealthy Writer https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July08_Post.mp3 There are plenty of ways to make money. Trading time for income is the most common. People who work on assembly lines do this. Doctors do this. This can be an hourly exchange, or a monthly exchange, or a multi-year exchange. A scientist pitches an idea to […]
Wake Up Your Learning Instinct
Modern Trainwreck https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr07_Post.mp4 One idea of modern education is that it is a training system. Or a teaching system. Sure, if you asked all the people involved, that’s what they’d say. But in reality, it was “modeled” after a system that was similar, but not meant for teaching. More for sorting. […]
Harvard Scam Theory
Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
Law Of The Jungle
Two Distinct Phases When I think of my life from the time I came into existence to the time I’m having this conversation with you right now I can easily separate my life into two distinct categories before Thailand and after Thailand. When I graduated from college and had a degree in physics. I […]
The Necessity Of Risk
New Teaching Job I have a friend who just got this job at a high school. He’s a math teacher and when he went in for the interview he was a little bit nervous. There were so many other applicants applying for this job. It’s only a part-time job, but when he got the […]
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 […]
The Myth Of Complacency
Why Risk And Uncertainty Is Scary We humans don’t like doing new things. Our brains very much like to settle into as many auto pilot situations as we can. Much of our thinking patterns and collections of biases evolved to cut down on thinking energy. Because our brains are a pretty expensive organ (operational calories […]