How To Be The Chosen One If you want to start your own cult, it’s not that different from baking a cake. Meaning if you get all the right ingredients together and mix them up together in the right way, you’ll get a cake. If you do the same, you’ll get a cult. Of course, […]
Supply and Demand
Secrets Of The Global Brain These two words, supply and demand, seem very simple. They are known and supposedly understood by virtually anybody. They are ubiquitous, and if you know the words, but are a bit sketchy on the concepts, then you will fully understand them by the end of this post. Despite their simplicity, […]
Tragedy Of The Commons
Why Are The Freeways So Crowded? This is a simple idea from economics that has far reaching ramifications. You’ll find it among roommates, farmers and even in the ocean. It’s called the “tragedy” of the commons because that’s how it always ends. Opposite of how everybody thinks it will end. Set Up Imagine you’ve […]
How To Embrace And Simultaneously Overcome Your Nature
Once there were these birds, cats, and dogs. To put it mildly, they weren’t very friendly. The dogs would mess with the cats, the cats would eat the birds, and the birds were always living in fear. Then one day, a bird had an idea. He went down and asked to speak with the head […]
Harness Human Selfishness For Effective Persuasion
Some of the best ideas and methods for effectively persuading people have been around for ages. Take the famous Dale Carnegie idea, that everybody’s favorite radio station is WII-FM, or “what’s in it for me.” Naturally, this idea has been around long before radio, Carnegie’s take is just an updated version of it. This idea, […]