Heaven Or Hell? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan08_Post.mp3 Here is an interesting metaphor about heaven and hell. In hell, everybody is sitting in a huge, round room. They’ve all got their backs up against the wall. In the center is a huge pot of delicious smelling food. They have spoons that are long enough to […]
Don’t Blame God
Not My Fault https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May20_Post.mp3 Once I worked with a guy. He was a very zealous born again Christian. Always trying to convert me. Once, he came into work and mentioned that he’d burned his toast. Not once, not twice, but three times. His response was that God didn’t want him […]
Supermarket Party Skills
How’s That Avocado? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr27_Post.mp3 Imagine a typical day for a typical person during a typical week. Let’s pick a Tuesday. Not quite halfway through the week. But far enough away from yesterday that the common Monday blues are starting to fade. Anyhow, let’s say you’re at the store. Picking up […]
Win Hearts
Common Fantasies https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar26_Post.mp4 Everybody has the same categories of desires. We all get hungry and eat. But we like different kinds of food. Different tastes. We all have a collection of skills. Skills we have, skills we want, skills we’d like to improve. We all have a deep desire […]
Make The World Obey You
People Searching https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb05_Post.mp4 There are plenty of ways to “sort” for people. If you are a guy looking for a gal to date, you have your “type.” If you are somebody interviewing for a job, you’ll have a basic set of qualifications. Both for the job, and general people skills. If […]
Surf The Ever Changing Now
Now Is Always https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun26_Post.mp4 The idea of “now” is pretty compelling, and interesting. From a purely philosophical view, it’s always now. You can never live in the past. You can lever live in the future. You can imagine the past, while in the now. You can imagine the future, while […]
Play Like A Happy Kid
Brain Wires https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun25_Post.mp4 All humans are born with some basic programming. We have some basic language wiring, and as we grow up we kind of fill in the blanks based on the local dialect. This is why any kid born anywhere can grow up and speak like a native. There’s probably a […]
Create A Virtuous Social Cycle
Reverse Cycles https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May15_Post.mp4 There’s a theory in both history and economics of virtuous and vicious cycles. That, generally speaking, when everything is growing, there are plenty of virtuous cycles. And when any society, business cycle, or economy reaches a kind of “tipping point” the virtuous cycles slowly shift into vicious cycles. For […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
Trade Magic Economics
Shoe Trader I read this story about a guy. He got a pair of shoes for Christmas or something. He kept them in the box. Then like six months later, he traded them for a skateboard. But then he kept the skateboard. Didn’t use it. And traded it for something else. And he kept […]