How Do I Do This? I read and interesting research paper recently about the rapidly diminishing skill set of most normal humans. They reported that up to 40% of people were dependent on the Internet to understand how complete basic house hold tasks. They couldn’t do simple tasks like fixing a leaky faucet, […]
Wood Shop Genius
Wooden Man I have a neighbor who has turned his hobby into a pretty interesting income stream. He creates this really intricate wood carvings that he sells to people. He’s got a massive online reputation, and he’s got a long list of customers waiting for his products, that takes him dozens of hours […]
Ancient Deities
Invention Categories There are many types of inventions, and many different reasons that drive the creativity that leads to inventions. But they can all be put into a few categories, based on the intentions behind them. There are the types of inventions that are to make money for the inventor, and therefore are […]
Pareto Planet
Sales Strategy There is a very common sales strategy used among many different sellers of many different things. Cars, houses, network marketing systems, and pretty much every sales job that is based largely on commissions. The system is very simple. Hire anybody with a pulse, give them a basic overview of the […]
The Butter Reframe
Natures Lid A lot of inventions weren’t invented on purpose, rather they were invented on accident. Butter, for example, wasn’t create to be something to eat. It was used to keep lid on milk back when they didn’t have refrigeration. It kept out bacteria that would make milk spoil, keeping it drinkable […]
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 […]
Perpetual Motion Machine
One Day, Killing Time One day I was hanging out and I was bored so I decided to go over to my friends house. My friend is a hobbyist and he has a lot of cool pieces of equipment in his garage. What he does is he takes these pieces of previous electronic devices […]
Occult Insanity Generation
Crazy Neighbor I have a neighbor that’s kind of strange. He’s really nice, he’s older as far as I know he’s never been married. I haven’t seen him with any wife or kids he’s in his late 50s early 60s. The other day I noticed that I hadn’t seen him in a couple of […]
Overlapping Selfishness
Basic Economics Recently I read this interesting book on economics. It talked about the basics of trade and said that nobody will trade anything with anybody else unless they want what the other person has more than what they have. If both people feel this way there will be a voluntary trade that will […]
Mind Control Machine
Weird Sandwich Shop I went to the sandwich shop a couple days ago. It’s a kind of a weird sandwich shop that has specifically decided only on a very narrow range of customers. They built their shop inside of a business park. This business park is filled up with these nondescript, tilt-up buildings. Most […]