All Modern Societies Are Unsustainable There are a couple of different ways to view an anthill. You can look at it as one singular organism unto itself or you could look at it as a collection of individual organisms onto themselves, all genetically programmed to support the meta-organism. You can look at a beehive […]
Supply and Demand
Secrets Of The Global Brain These two words, supply and demand, seem very simple. They are known and supposedly understood by virtually anybody. They are ubiquitous, and if you know the words, but are a bit sketchy on the concepts, then you will fully understand them by the end of this post. Despite their simplicity, […]
Custom Universe
How To Create Your Own World With reason, the world around you is very much under your control. In this post, you will learn some very simple techniques that will allow you to create your own ideal universe. Now, it’s important to understand that this has nothing to do with metaphysical law of attraction mumbo […]
Cause and Effect
The Mystery Of The Human Mind One of the most confusing things, (or maybe not so confusing since we think we understand it and we really don’t) is the idea of cause and effect. On one hand, it seems simple. We see it happening all the time. It’s the one aspect of science we can […]
The Impossibility Of Non Selfishness
A Useful Model This post will end with a suggestion to be considered. A model through which to observe the world and your own behaviors within it. For some, this suggestion will be rejected out of hand. For others, this suggestion will allow one to make sense of everything. A internal feeling of the pieces […]
Which Game Are You Playing?
A lot of us go through the world looking for free “goodies.” Meaning we crave recognition, validation and attention on a deep level. This is absolutely normal, and despite how much we claim only “those people” are doing this, we are very susceptible. For example, if you plan every step of your life according to […]
Become a Shaper Of Reality
Once upon a time there was this group of scientists. These were different from the scientists I talked about in yesterday’s email, but they had a similar problem. Yesterday’s problem was understanding how something worked. How reality was actually unfolding itself. Today’s story is about how these scientists had a pretty good idea of what […]
You Can Do What Einstein Couldn’t
Sometimes reality can be incredibly confusing, and the models we construct to describe it don’t work on so well. If our models, or our maps of the world fail us, we tend to blame reality, rather than re-configuring our maps. One of my favorite stories of physics is “black body radiation,” which gave rise to […]
How To Make Seduction Her Idea
Chasing women is built into our genes, and it seems to be the fall back position for most guys. Luckily, it’s not the only way get the girl of your dreams. See, there’s plenty of pre-programmed “strategies” that are in our brains. They were put there by Mother Nature or God or whomever, and they […]
Stop Screaming Like A Kid
There’s two ways of looking at the world, one is as a kid, and one is as an adult. The two are very different, and will get you very different results. First, take a look at the “kid” model. Kids don’t have a lot of skills. Everything they get comes from their parents. They don’t […]