Self Help Con? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept10_Post.mp4 There is a common idea that a lot of self help is a con. The evidence seems to support it. People read tons of self help books but never change. But suppose we treat this idea with a bit more scientific objectivity? One thing that’s critical in […]
Harvard Scam Theory
Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
Jesus Pyramid Scheme
Happy Hour Taquitos I went to my local bar a couple of weeks ago. They have a pretty good happy hour. Drinks aren’t really all that cheap, but between 4 and 7 they have a free appetizer buffet. It’s not healthy, it’s the same kind of stuff you’d find in the frozen […]
Witch Coven MLM Cult
Cute Library Girl I’ve been going to my local library quite a bit lately. Mainly because the librarian is really cute and she is always flirting with me. A couple weeks ago she suggested I join the friends of the library. They were having an intro meeting the coming Saturday. I […]
Stone Cold Jesus Hustler
Client Meeting Gone Bust I went to meet a client a couple of weeks ago. My client didn’t show up. He contacted me over the Internet and we talked on Skype a few times and I wanted to make sure that he was serious because he wanted me to be a like a personal coach […]
Duck Pond Hallucination
Shut Up! The other day I was sitting in my apartment and I noticed a lot of noise suddenly coming from next-door. My first response was to get very very angry then I remembered that somebody had slipped a piece of paper through my mail slot a week or so ago. I looked through […]
Stock Market Scams And The Never Ending Desire For Easy Money
Here’s the story of one of the greatest, most ingenious stock market scams I’ve ever heard about. You like money, right? But making money is tough. It takes a long time to accumulate riches. But that doesn’t keep most of us from dreaming about someday striking it rich without much effort. (I’m sure you know […]
The Easy Money Modeling Agency Con
I used to work as a model scout, many many years ago. It was a big con, and I really didn’t figure that until I’d worked there for a while. But here’s how the game went. They’d send out the “scouts” out into the world. Our job was to grab anybody who looked like they […]