Bad Example https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept09_Post.mp3 I watched a movie once about a brother and sister. It was very vague about the why, but both were messed up. Something horrible had happened to them when they were younger. Something that was only alluded to a few times. The dude was a sex addict. […]
Trifecta of Greatness
Complex Simplicity https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun24_Post.mp3 Humans are goal seeking organisms. All animals are goal seeking organisms. But humans are much, much more complex. We were calibrated to live in small, tightly organized groups. Where everybody grew up knowing everybody else. And to make it simpler, Mother Nature gave us each a singular […]
Bird Brain Chaos
Chaos Birds https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr29_Post.mp3 A murmuration of starlings is a pretty cool thing. This when a hundred or so birds start to fly around in circles. Not really circles, but in a kind of relatively small space. Compared to the sky. Where the birds are making all these cool shapes that keep […]
Black Swan Love
Movie Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar07_Post.mp4 The movie Black Swan was one of those movies that is open to interpretation. My own take was it was kind of a metaphorical “coming of age movie.” The protagonist was leaving behind the easy life of childhood, and embracing the harsh world of adulthood. One of my pieces […]
The Loyalty Myth
Imaginary Ideas https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan13_Post.mp4 A lot of people grumble about a lack of loyalty today. This is based on a misunderstanding of cause and effect. We believe that because of the way things happened in the past, that’s the way they are SUPPOSED to happen now. Particularly when we look back in the […]
Leverage Your Two Powerful Biases
Inside vs. Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May13_Post.mp4 Human nature is pretty simple from an engineering standpoint. Very simple. But looking out into the world through our subjective experience is very, very complicated. Or it SEEMS complicated. Part of this is our unique human ability of meta cognition. Thinking about thinking. Talking about […]
Hypnotic Mime Control
No Word Riches There is this mime that invented a very powerful form of non-verbal hypnosis. He was already doing very well as a mime. He had all the licenses and only need to work the busy corners on weekends. So when he stared to study hypnosis, he wanted to slowly blend […]
Instinctive Sex Programming
Meandering Lecture I went to see this lecture recently by a psychologist. She was applying theories of evolutionary psychology to sales, to leverage our ancient social instincts to more easily make money. Her theory was that everything is, at its core, a kind of frame battle. And that by understanding the deep […]
Energy Transfer Loss
Hot And Cold The Sterling engine is an interesting example of many clever ways to transform energy into different forms. It takes the differential in two chambers of two different temperatures and transforms that into kinetic energy. There’s an interesting inventor that used a similar technique with a bicycle. Not So Nice […]
Immortal Monkey Apocalypse
Shakespeare Experiment There’s a theory that if you put enough monkeys on an island, each banging away on a typewriter, they’ll eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare. This is true in theory, so long as they bang on a typewriter long enough, a certain percentage of the random stuff they type will make […]