Split Test https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May23_Post.mp4 Natural selection is a very, very powerful tool. It doesn’t just work with evolution. It is also a fantastic marketing tool. The idea of a “split test” is central to natural selection. Advertisers have been using split tests for a long time. Split tests allow you to find […]
Drop Ambition Breadcrumbs
Five Years? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19_Post.mp4 A common question you get in interviews is: Where do you see yourself in five years? I never really liked that question. One, because I never had a five year plan that included the company I was applying for. But mainly because my five year plans are nobody’s […]
Oscillating Desires
Finally Broke Up I have a friend who just broke up with her boyfriend. She’d been wanting to break up with him for a long time, and was always asking my advice, and she finally did it. Now she’s having regrets, and she wanted me to hypnotize her to help forget the things […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Three Essential Truths
Flea Market Trip The other day I decided to go down to the local flea market. I had a few hours I wanted to kill and I like to go wandering around. Sometimes you find some good deals on pieces of furniture and other kitchen appliance equipment. I was wandering around and I saw […]
Tai Chi Wizard
Get Out Of The House A long time ago I took this class in tai chi. It was a class that was 24 weeks long and each week we would learn one new movement. By the end of the 24 weeks we had a whole self-contained kind of tai chi structure that we could do […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hallucination
The Human Unique Selling Proposition What is our best feature, as humans? Many people like to talk about this, since we are pretty different from all the other animals. Some don’t even like to accept that we are animals, imagining that we are some special beings above the rest. Chimp DNA But there seems […]
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