Not Funny https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug17_Post.mp4 I took an improv class once. I had not idea what it was, it was recommended to me. I thought it was going to be about comedy. But it was about improv in the context of any kind of stage acting. Plays are based on memorized lines. […]
Plato’s Cave and Big Boobs
Hypnosis Pill https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July17_Post.mp4 There are many different definitions of hypnosis. Or actual arguments that hypnosis doesn’t exist. Some believe that we are always under a state of hypnosis. But this constant state of hypnosis is limiting. So we need to “de-hypnotize” ourselves. This metaphor is pretty ubiquitous and has been […]
Return To Mars
Old School Ideas A very interesting idea from antiquity, made famous by Plato, is the idea of the lost city of Atlantis. These idea of an underwater ancient city that was far more advanced is very compelling, and surrounded in tons of mythology. We humans seem to have a very keen interest in […]
Thought Cancellation Pattern
Middle Age Genius One of the more interesting ideas that happened between the early and high middle ages was the idea of scholasticism. Before, they only had monasticism. Which meant focusing only on one set of ideas. Back then, these were ideas about God and society and the teachings of the Catholic […]
Applications of Hallucinated Infinity
Ancient Greeks One of my favorite characters from history is this guy from ancient Greece called Zeno of Elea. He came up with all these crazy paradoxes. One of them was the idea that motion is impossible. There was this Austrian guy named Godel who studied infinity. He came with all these […]
Pancakes and Fractals
Old Woman There was this old woman sitting outside of her shop. She was sitting on the ground, not quite on the ground on a very low seat, and she had this big plastic pitcher of pancake batter. She would pour enough pancake batter onto a small electric griddle that was in front of […]
How He Found His Purpose
Live Performance I’ve a friend who has been making music for several years, about 10 or 15 years, as long as I’ve known him. He’s only recently started to perform live and I wondered why before he never before live. The music he made was really really good, but he seemed to be content just […]