Wrong Drives https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct15_Post.mp3 Most, if not all, modern problems, can be described in terms of “instinct mismatch.” Our mind-body systems were not calibrated for the modern world. We were calibrated to live in a much different environment. One instinct that helped us back then but can utterly destroy us today is the […]
Define Your Purpose
Two Days https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug30_Post.mp3 Mark Twain famously said there are two important days in anybody’s life. The day your born, and the day you find out why. This, like many other cool sounding ideas, is a metaphor. And while it feeds our need to find our “purpose” it might not be so accurate. […]
Balance Sex Energy
Instinct Management https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug28_Post.mp3 Most success in life comes from managing your ancient instincts. If you want to have a decent looking body, you need to exercise when you don’t feel like exercising. You need to not eat, or at least not eat as much as you want to, when you are hungry. […]
Don’t Eat Dirt
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. […]