Night On The Town A couple of weeks ago I went to this open mic night. I’d been to a couple, and they are always interesting. If you’re paying to see somebody, then you have a much higher expectation of having a good time, but you’ll also see somebody who is going to […]
Time Flies Like An Arrow
Instinct People Humans have a ton of instincts. Things that compel us to behaviors, sometimes against our will. Most of us are familiar with social instincts, and food instincts and sex instincts. But there is also a humor instinct. It makes sense from a physiological-immune system kind of way. Whenever we laugh, aside […]
Future Human Communication
Club Trip A couple of weeks ago a new club opened downtown. I don’t usually go to clubs, but they’ve been heavily advertising this one for some reason. They’ve hired a lot of very attractive young women who have been handing out fliers. And they’ve trained them very well. When they hand you the […]
Global Hive Mind
Universal People There is a guy named Brown who is an anthropologist. He wanted to study people from all over the world to see if he could come up with something called Universal People. A set of characteristics that every single human on earth shares regardless of how advanced or how primitive their technology […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Corrupt Kings and Noble Mythology
Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
Jesus FOMO and the Madness of Crowds
Irresistible FOMO One of the strongest psychological motivating factors to get humans moving is the fear of missing out. The idea that everybody is getting something good and because that good thing is so popular that the good thing is slowly disappearing that combination of effects will make us want to get that thing more […]
Consciousness Hallucination
Non Fiction Book Club Lately I’ve been going to this nonfiction book club once a week. It’s a fantastic place to go and have really really interesting discussions. Usually we talk about history books, sometimes we talk about economics or we read economic books and talk about them. We’ve learned to not read and […]
Fear Of Abandonment
Reunion Party I went to a reunion recently. It was a reunion with people that I hadn’t seen in a few decades and because I’m from the generation X, we grew up, we were raised in an environment with no Internet and no social media. Generation X people are a lot less likely to […]
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