House Party I have a friend who is an exceptionally talented musician except he only plays music as a hobby. He’s actually an engineer for this really really big huge company that he joined shortly after it was founded. He kind of rose up the ranks as the company grew now he makes a ton […]
Hallucinated Futures
Attractive Neighbor I have this really attractive really intelligent next-door neighbor I’ve never seen her with anybody and I’ve never asked her out myself because a long time ago I made the huge mistake of dating somebody that I lived very close to and I vowed never to make that mistake again. One day […]
Jesus FOMO and the Madness of Crowds
Irresistible FOMO One of the strongest psychological motivating factors to get humans moving is the fear of missing out. The idea that everybody is getting something good and because that good thing is so popular that the good thing is slowly disappearing that combination of effects will make us want to get that thing more […]
Unsustainability
All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
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 […]
How To Start A Cult
How To Be The Chosen One If you want to start your own cult, it’s not that different from baking a cake. Meaning if you get all the right ingredients together and mix them up together in the right way, you’ll get a cake. If you do the same, you’ll get a cult. Of course, […]
The Freeloader Problem
Two Sides Of A Deadly Coin Way back in the day, we humans lived in small tribes of a few hundred people. Life was harsh. Getting food was difficult and dangerous. Predators were everywhere, and the food tended to run away. Animals didn’t want to be killed and eaten. Hunter Gather Instincts We humans […]
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 Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]
Might Makes Right
Survival Of The Fittest Once upon a time there was no life on Earth. Then something happened (aliens, meteor, lightning, hand of God, etc.) and there was a life form. Maybe a bunch. But they were very simple. They needed to eat, or get some kind of energy from their environment. And for some weird […]
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