Trampoline Train I saw a pretty cool video the other day. A bunch of guys doing tricks on a trampoline, but the trampoline was on an open train car that was moving pretty quickly along the train tracks. From the trampoline perspective, they were only moving up and down. But from the […]
Time Travel Intuition
Chimps and Humans The timeline between chimps and humans is six or eight million years. Humans became humans only a couple hundred thousand years ago. But chimps and likely proto-humans can communicate well without using spoken words. Non Verbal Communication https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept08Loop.mp4 It’s estimated that up to 93 percent of human communication is […]
Zombie Invasions and Split Testing
Problems and Solutions A famous quote from Einstein says that you can’t solve a problem from the same mindset that created the problem. When the space shuttle blew up in the late 80’s it was a tragedy for a lot of reasons. One because it killed a lot of people. Two because […]
Ancient Books and Human Purpose
Used Book Search I’ve been looking for this obscure book for a long time. I found the reference in the back of another book I got at a used book store a couple of years ago. The reference described this as dangerous metaphysical secrets that ancient governments have continually suppressed throughout the ages. […]
Preconscious Chaos
Ratio of Known To Unknown There’s this very common idea that every single second we have about one million bits of information hitting our senses but at the same time our conscious minds are only capable of perceiving a very, very tiny fraction of that. There is this metaphorical thing, maybe an actual thing, […]
Museum Of Time
Wandering Downtown A couple of weeks ago I was wandering downtown and I came across a clock museum. Now, I had seen this clock museum sign before and I had always assumed it was some kind of a clever marketing gimmick for a a watch shop or a clock shop but it turns out it’s […]
Ancient Sales Techniques
Desperate Client I have a client that I deal with sometimes on Skype once or twice a month. I don’t normally deal one-on-one with clients for various reasons, but this guy had an interesting story I just had to find out if it was true or not. I’m coaching him about various sales techniques […]
The Money Energy Connection
Once Upon A Time There Was No Money I’ve always been interested in the invention of money. Once upon a time there was a bunch of people that were anatomically similar to how we are today but they didn’t have any money. Then there came a time where they needed money. They say that […]
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 […]
Paradox Of Achievement
Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]