Jigsaw Man I have a friend who has a lot of old school hobbies. He’s actually got no tech allowed game room. He’s in his sixties, and he’s fairly tech savvy, but he needs to escape to this special non tech room in his house. He’s got a huge bookcase filled with […]
Applications of Hallucinated Infinity
Ancient Greeks One of my favorite characters from history is this guy from ancient Greece called Zeno of Elea. He came up with all these crazy paradoxes. One of them was the idea that motion is impossible. There was this Austrian guy named Godel who studied infinity. He came with all these […]
Astral Projection Time Travel
Baseball Hat I needed a baseball hat so I went to a local sporting goods store. I do a lot of walking, and it’s getting pretty sunny so I need to protect my face. I hadn’t bought a hat in a long time. So I went to see what they had in stock. […]
Psychic Chicken Lady
Whole Foods I went into whole foods a few days ago. I don’t normally shop there. It’s kind of far and expensive. I was just curious and I was in the neighborhood. I was looking at all the chicken and I noticed they had different prices per pound. But I couldn’t see a clear […]
Global Hive Mind
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 […]