I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
Self Sustaining Hallucinations
Thinking Is Hard There are plenty of logical fallacies that humans tend to use without even realizing it. There are also plenty of biases built into our brain. Just like it’s hard to run around with a bag of rocks for very long, it’s hard to think in purely logical terms for very […]
Brain Detailing
Easy Money Due to the massive interconnected global economy, there are endless niche markets opening up. This means finding enough buyers to support a small business is easier than ever. For example, if your profit was $10 per product, you’d only need a couple dozen thousand new customers per year to make a […]
Hypnotic Massage Technique
Collapsing Anchors A very common technique for quitting smoking is a technique using anchors. Over several different sessions with a hypnotist, the hypnotist will connect positive anchors to non smoking behavior, and negative anchors to smoking behavior. So when the client sees positive things on a daily basis, those good feelings will be […]
Self Replicating Hallucinations
Man In God’s Image In the book of Genesis, we are told that God made man in his image. There are plenty of different interpretations of what this means. There is obvious and naive interpretation that we look like him. This is not believed by any serious scholar. Another interpretation is […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Alien Fermi DNA Strategy
Quick Cooker Recently I bought a pressure cooker. It’s pretty cool for two reasons, but it does have on major drawback. You can cook things quickly and it’s pretty much set and forget. I have a friend whose side business is growing marijuana. Pot Growing Genius https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept01Loop.mp4 But he has a […]
Brain Replication and Creation
Genetically Programmed Builders Ants, beavers and bees all have one thing in common. They are genetically programmed to come into this world, take raw materials from their environment and turn those raw materials into complex functioning homes. If you went back in time a million years, you’d see bees and beaver and ants busily […]
Protecting Market Share
Small And Hungry It’s a common phenomenon for small companies with zero market share to take a ton of risk. Since they don’t have anything to lose, and everything to gain, this makes perfect sense. Then as they slowly claw some market share and customers away from other more established, existing companies, they shift slightly. […]