Cooperation https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan09_Post.mp3 Co-evolution is a pretty interesting concept. It is kind of hard to wrap your brain though. Particularly because we use metaphors to describe complex things. For example, consider bees and flowers. To famously co-evolving people. The bees get “free” food from the flowers. The flowers get a […]
Burrito Love Pattern
Difficult Lives https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov14_Post.mp3 Many people struggle with life. Making money, making friends, creating potential romantic connections. One way to look at this is as the human condition. We all want the same stuff. Food, money, social connections, companionships, sex, love. But getting these is far from easy. Often we […]
Scientific Attraction
Monkey People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept07_Post.mp3 Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist. He had a couple of interesting ideas. One is something called a Dunbar Number. The number of people we can keep track of in our brains. For humans, this is about 150. Meaning you have space in your brain to instantly recall […]
Ancient Love Instinct
Rule The World https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept06_Post.mp3 What is love? Answer this and you might get a Nobel prize. This is a difficult question these days. Most people only experience the first step of love. That attraction that is there to pull people together. That’s like having the ingredients of a cake. […]
Magic Killing Elephants
Don’t Think About It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug09_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about a wizard and a king. The king is growing impatient with the wizard. The kingdom is in shambles and the king is worried about a peasant uprising. So he calls in the wizard and says: Listen, dude, you’d better produce something […]
Old School Love Patterns
Input Output https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July06_Post.mp3 A lot of people like to think about life like a magic vending machine. You put in the money, make your choice and get the bag of chips. This is why guys can get so frustrated when it comes to dating. Particularly nowadays. Before the internet, you were […]
Profound Connections
What Happens Next? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July05_Post.mp3 Humans are living in a very unique time. Whether this is the new normal or we’ll have a mean reversion is anybody’s guess. Some say we will not only mean revert, but we’ll mean revert all the way back to the pre-industrial times. The explosion in the past […]
Don’t Blame God
Not My Fault https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May20_Post.mp3 Once I worked with a guy. He was a very zealous born again Christian. Always trying to convert me. Once, he came into work and mentioned that he’d burned his toast. Not once, not twice, but three times. His response was that God didn’t want him […]
Eliminate One-Itis
Gotta Have It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May19_Post.mp3 We humans tend to develop one-itis for a lot of things. This is normally something reserved for guys and girls. You interact with a lady for a little bit. Not very much. Just enough to get her number. Or get to know her just a little […]
Don’t Eat Dirt
Effect Cause https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May18_Post.mp3 Relationships used to be easy. Not fantasy dream come true, but pretty easy. You cruise through school. Learn some basic social skills. Learn some basic life skills. Parents and teachers were there to help. Society was pretty stable. You came out, got a job and […]
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