Universal People There is a guy named Brown who is an anthropologist. He wanted to study people from all over the world to see if he could come up with something called Universal People. A set of characteristics that every single human on earth shares regardless of how advanced or how primitive their technology […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
No Help From The Parrot
Walking Down The Street The other day I was walking down the street I had a few plans for the day. I was expecting to be, hoping to be very productive, but I looked up and suddenly this woman that was walking towards me also looked up and our eyes locked. When this happens […]
Circle Of Mathematics
Business Meeting A couple of weeks ago I had to go to a hotel downtown to meet one of my clients. He was in town for a lot of serious business meanings and he wanted to have kind of a between meeting brainstorming session. To get a lot of contracts to hopefully close. I […]
Water Filter Salesman
Eccentric Neighbor For a while I’ve had this very strange neighbor in my neighborhood. Everyone knows about him. Everybody talks about him. He’s kind of a recluse. The story is, ann this is a fairly accurate story because most of this is public information. He was a driven kid in school. He was a […]
Undersea Hallucination
Renting Skis A couple of months ago I was going skiing and so I had to go rent a pair of skis. I have been skiing ever since I was a kid or at least I learned how to ski when I was a kid and I’m been skiing off and on since I was […]
Gold Giving Box
Free Car Wash The other day I was driving around town and I passed by a group of kids having a carwash. They had a few hand-painted signs that said free car wash and that the bottom the sign said donations accepted. Since it looked like a worthy fundraising cause I got a free […]
Blue Skies and Wandering Voices
One Day At The Park There is a very interesting park that I go to near my apartment. It’s very long. It’s fairly wide, but is longer than it is wide. There’s a bench that’s about halfway down that I enjoy sitting on. When I sit on this bench I can kind of see […]
Quantum Brain Theory
Lady At The Gym A couple of weeks ago I had a particularly interesting conversation with a woman that I had first started talking to at the gym. We sometimes end up on the bikes next to each other and one day we were having a interesting conversation on the bikes and both of our […]