Effect Cause https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May18_Post.mp3 Relationships used to be easy. Not fantasy dream come true, but pretty easy. You cruise through school. Learn some basic social skills. Learn some basic life skills. Parents and teachers were there to help. Society was pretty stable. You came out, got a job and […]
Instinct Management
No Move https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May16_Post.mp3 Most people are lazy. Or rather, everybody is lazy. This is good. Very good. If our ancestors weren’t lazy, we would have gone extinct. We all have a collection of instincts that motivate us to get the most benefit for the least effort. But we also […]
Shiny Objects
Small Points https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr16_Post.mp4 Evolution is kind of like credit card debt. Or the flip side, slowly built wealth. Meaning only a small percent interest can make all the difference. Einstein allegedly said that compounded interest was the eighth wonder of the world. The second richest fictional person is the leader of […]
Lonely Monty Hall
What Is He Saying? I have this really weird friend that only speaks in structure language. He avoids content at all costs, and, surprisingly enough, it’s very compelling and soothing to listen to this person. Like all you want to do is blank your mind, when you listen to this person. All […]
Reverse Polarity Experiments
Food Con Jobs Plenty of large food producers have paid for research that leads to some questionable results. The science is valid, the data is corrected accurately, but they come to conclusions that don’t seem to make sense. This is not too different from corporations lobbying to make it easier to make a […]
Hidden Disruptive Technologies
Excess Brain Power All modern problems can be resolved to what evolutionary psychologists call an instinct mismatch. That our mind body system was calibrated for a world much different than the one in which we live. A corollary to this idea is that we have a significant amount of excess brain capacity. […]