Slipped Through My Fingers I was at the supermarket the other day, buying a bunch of stuff for the weekend. It was a cashier I enjoy flirting with whenever I see her. She went to give me my change, and tentatively held out a silver dollar. Not a real silver dollar, but […]
Lost Cities Of Seclusion
Money Stacks There are a lot of interesting metaphors about money, about the amount of actual physical currency you’d need to have a certain amount. Like $10K would be like a small stack of hundreds about an inch or so thick. Or a million would be a small stack of those. And […]
Bartender Stories
Empty Bar Opportunity I went to a fairly new bar the other day. There was nobody there, so I had a nice chat with the bartender. I started asking her some random questions about various superlatives. Poor To Rich https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar29Loop.mp4 She has this friend that is very rich, very successful. Before […]
Energy Gradients
No New Energy The first law of thermodynamics says energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy must increase. At the same time, there is simple reason for systems, such as planet Earth, that have a consistently decreasing entropy. Money Flows https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27Loop.mp4 Hedge fund managers, so […]
Rearview Brain Strategy
System At The Track A long time ago, long before the internet became popular, I bought this system that would allegedly teach you how to make easy money at the track. The sales letter, an old school, actual letter you’d get in the mail, made this sound like a fantastic system that would allow […]
Secret Dragon Seduction
Party People I was at this party the other night, and there were these two people, guy and a girl, that were flirting with each other from across the room. But it was just barely perceptible. Every time the girl would make eye contact with the guy, her eyes would quickly dart away […]
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 […]
Long Game Mind Control
Plastic Boat There’s a lot of way to create work, from a scientific standpoint. Nearly all useful work is created by differences in temperature or electrical potential. But you can also generate work through differences in surface tension. You take these tiny, plastic boats, floating on water. They are built so […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Mental Push Power
House Party I went to a house party a couple weeks ago. It was a friend of a friend of a friend. Big house. Nice neighborhood. Tons of people. A lot of very attractive females. It took me a while before I met the owner. I wanted to meet this guy since it was […]
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