Deep Tech https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept05_Post.mp4 If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you now the recognition is much easier than production. Meaning you can understand words, and their meaning, much easier than you can produce those words. This is why there are a lot of believable characters that can understand each other in their native […]
Master The Magic Triangle
Circular Lines https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug23_Post.mp4 A lot of cool ideas are discovered independently. Like the Pythagorean formula. Most kids are taught this in junior high school. The idea (A^2 + B^2 = C^2) is pretty simple. You’ve got a right triangle. One side, another side, and the hypotenuse. Like you’ve got […]
Open Loop Origin Stories
Powerful Communication https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May08_Post.mp4 Open loops are a very powerful “tool.” I put tool in quotes because open loops happen all the time. Only when you understand them, and learn how to leverage them do they become a powerful tool. For example, when I was a kid, we didn’t have the Internet. […]
Create Positive Cycles At Will
Once You See Them https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr01_Post.mp4 Many things are invisible. But once you calibrate your mind to see them, you’ll see them everywhere. Their not really invisible, but intangible. A description of a process. A metaphor. One such metaphor is the reinforcing cycle, or loop. For example, think of something […]
Magic Money Man
Master of Skills Once there was a magician. Who did tricks. And real magic. Mostly from the stage. Sometimes on the street. Sometimes it was real. Mostly sleight of hand. Secret Magic Gifts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov27Loop.mp4 But sometimes. When he was feeling particularly generous. He would perform his […]
Bank Shot Homework Assignment
Paper News Once there was a newspaper boy. He moved into town, and started to deliver newspapers. These papers looked very familiar. The information seemed very comfortable. Even though most people got their news online, they still enjoyed reading the paper news. This Guy Knows His Stuff https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct11Loop.mp4 And this […]
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 […]