Our Memory Sucks It’s a very demonstrable fact that human memory is very very weak. We’ve all had experiences where somebody told us their name and we later forgot it even thought we wanted to remember it. We all have experiences being told what to study for a particular test in school. We studied but […]
Beehive Punch
Not A Good Idea If you were out hiking you saw gigantic beehive it wouldn’t be a good idea to punch the beehive because all of the bees would swarm out and sting you to death. If you were hiking through the forest by yourself when you suddenly found yourself in wolf territory and […]
Relationship Success
Rich Old Couple I met this interesting couple couple of weeks ago. They’re a very older couple very very wealthy there were several hundred million dollars. When I, before I met them, I had this kind of assumption the man was the successful business person and the wife more or less spousal support that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]
Conspiracy Theory
Murder Game I’ve always liked to play card games. Especially when I was a kid I like to play card games. Most card games are based somewhat on deception and conspiring against your opponents. One of my favorite card games that I played when I was a kid was called murder. It’s not really […]
Real Magic
Summer School I have a friend who volunteers at a local community center. She asked me if I would help her teach some kids summer school. Some magic tricks during summer school. It took me about 10 minutes of research to realize that if I tried to teach these kids any kind of sleight-of-hand […]
Hidden Box Of Pain
3D Vision The other day I was watching this really cool documentary on how our eyeballs and our brains work together to create this illusion of depth perception. I used to think that it was because only because we had two eyeballs kind of like a 3-D movie where you put on these glasses […]
Upper Management
Waiting For The Bus So the other day I was at the bus stop. I wanted to go downtown and pick something up. I didn’t want to drive. I did one take an uber. I wanted to kill some time. I wanted to spend two or three hours. I had a lot of stuff […]
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