Economic Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept07_Post.mp4 The law of supply and demand is a beautiful idea. It takes a little bit of time to understand it, beyond the common regurgitation of labels. “Oh yeah, right, supply and demand, basic economics 101.” It’s the implications of supply and demand that are beautiful. If something has […]
Rise Above The Pack Of Beggars
I’m Hungry https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July06_Post.mp4 Way back in the day, long before agriculture, there was a very clear transition point. This is very, very hard to imagine today, but if you force your mind on this idea, it will be helpful. Back then, everybody was almost always hungry. The only time people weren’t hungry […]
The Magic Feedback Loop
Too Good To Be True? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May21_Post.mp4 A lot of self help ideas are very, very easy to misunderstand. Mainly because of the way they are distributed. What’s this mean? Suppose you are an entrepreneur. And you decide to open a sandwich shop. All you really know is that people like […]
Why Opportunities Are Everywhere
Why So Complicated https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19_Post.mp4 Common life is very, very confusing. But it didn’t always be this way. In fact, if you study philosophy and religion going back a few thousand years, you’ll find the same ideas. Which meant people from various cultures in various periods of time had the same problems to […]
Evil Clown Show
Traveling Circus During the Great Depression, a lot of interesting ideas popped up that didn’t really exist before. A lot of traveling circuses and carnivals became popular. These had been around for hundreds of years, but they kind of became an employer of last resort. If you lost your job, and nobody […]
Interview King Maker
Horrifying Class I took this college class ones that sounded on paper like it would be a good idea but it turned out to be the most terrifying class I would ever take in my life. It was billed as a interview skills class where you would learn how to answer the most […]
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
I once had this teacher in college that used to teach by deception. She was a young teacher, and I suppose she was trying out “new” ideas of teaching, and trying to get her students to learn the subject matter in interesting ways. Often times she would create these “scenarios” where the students ended up […]
Are You Ruled By Fate?
I remember long ago, as a kid, sitting in class in fourth grade. One of classmates said something I’ll never forget. The teacher was going on and on about Columbus, and why he was such a cutting edge “genius” of his time, boldly going where no man has gone before (just like captain Kirk) when […]
The Mirror: Your Best Friend
Seemed I touched off a nerve recently. I mentioned something that most would like to remain unmentioned. See, one of the problems with human nature is we are all black belt Jedi ninjas when it comes to self-deception. One of the hardest things for people to do is to take responsibility for their actions. If […]