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 […]
Long Term Vampire Cons
Breakup I have a friend who recently broke up with her boyfriend of two years. She’s really hot, and pretty smart, and I’d been expecting this for a quite a while. I’m not really sure why they were together, but you could tell she was dating way below her market value. In […]
Time Travel Brain Entropy
Word Order Critical If you compare a dictionary and a bible, the two are vastly different. One is filled with words and definitions. The other is filled with ancient stories and metaphors about the nature of human existence. But both are filled only with words. Words ordered one way will create […]
Quantum Brain Matrix
Resonators One of my favorite ideas from science is the idea or resonance. A common way to apply the resonance principle is to a wine glass. If you run your fingers along the rim, the vibrations of your finger along the rim will resonate with the natural frequency of the class. Another […]
Donut Gun Hypnosis Pattern
College Job When I was in college I got this cool job at a donut shop. I’d never really thought about donuts before them, from an engineering standpoint. I worked late afternoons, early evenings, when you got to make all the donuts. You took processed flour, sugar and some coloring, mixed it […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
How To Become Psychic
Rapport Seminar I went to a free sales seminar a couple weeks ago. It was pretty basic stuff, but it was also pretty useful. The first half all we did were these fairly straightforward rapport exercises. Rapport is extremely important, but it’s also kind of dangerous. Easy To Forget https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July30Loop.mp4 Dangerous […]