College Job When I was in college I got this cool job at a donut shop. I’d never really thought about donuts before them, from an engineering standpoint. I worked late afternoons, early evenings, when you got to make all the donuts. You took processed flour, sugar and some coloring, mixed it […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Zombie Invasions and Split Testing
Problems and Solutions A famous quote from Einstein says that you can’t solve a problem from the same mindset that created the problem. When the space shuttle blew up in the late 80’s it was a tragedy for a lot of reasons. One because it killed a lot of people. Two because […]
Deep Deception and Sexual Influence
Curve Ball Killer An inside out curve ball is a very vicious and insidious pitch. Normal curve balls appear to be on their way to cross the plate, but then the curve away from the batter. Inside out curves appear to be slightly inside, but they curve toward the batter. These are […]
Atomic Russian Thought Control
Invention of Chemistry Once they figured out how atoms worked, chemistry was invented. The first guy who figured out the period table was a Russian guy named Mendeleev. Atoms all have the same basic structure, neutrons and protons on the inside, with electrons on the outside. Three basic atoms, Carbon, Oxygen and […]
Hypnotic Brain Seeding
Birthday Tree I went to a cool picnic recently. It was a 1000 year birthday party for this tree. They had a scientist verify the age with carbon dating. It was a huge event, lots of food booths, barbecues, tons of alcohol. It had a kind of spontaneous, pagan kind of […]
How To Become Psychic
Rapport Seminar I went to a free sales seminar a couple weeks ago. It was pretty basic stuff, but it was also pretty useful. The first half all we did were these fairly straightforward rapport exercises. Rapport is extremely important, but it’s also kind of dangerous. Easy To Forget https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July30Loop.mp4 Dangerous […]
Advice From Imaginary People
Grandmaster Theory I have a friend who has a very interesting hobby. He plays chess, but in a very unique way. He has this chess software on his PC, and this chess software is hooked up a huge database. This database has every game every played. So he’ll watch a game, […]
Psychic Memory Repair
Broken Car A couple weeks ago my car started making some funny noises. It sounded pretty bad, so had to find a place to drop it off. I asked around and found a place that had a pretty good reputation. I took it by, the guy said it would take a couple […]
Memory Confusion Experiment
Watch Closely Researchers did an interesting memory study. They had a guy pretending to be a thief come into a large classroom while a professor was lecturing and steal a bag off the desk in front. A common understanding is that winners of wars write the history books. We might assume that […]
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