No Move https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May16_Post.mp3 Most people are lazy. Or rather, everybody is lazy. This is good. Very good. If our ancestors weren’t lazy, we would have gone extinct. We all have a collection of instincts that motivate us to get the most benefit for the least effort. But we also […]
Copy The Survivorship Winners
Replication https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept02_Post_1.mp4 The best communication is reverse engineered from naturals. Naturals of all kinds. Who win through survivorship bias. For example, one of the most powerful kinds of hypnosis was reverse engineered from Milton Erickson. And Erickson designed it himself, from pure trial and error. A lifetime of trial and […]
What Signals Are You Sending?
Humans vs. Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July07_Post.mp4 Why do people have job interviews? Particularly for highly technical jobs. Let’s assume we are visiting aliens to earth and we need to report on human behavior. We are highly advanced species, kind of like Vulcans. From a pure logical frame of mind, it seems like a […]
Circle Origin Story
Trigonometry is Magic One of the coolest discoveries in mathematics is that of trigonometry. Since cycles are a deep part of the natural world, and trigonometry deals in cycles, its discovery helped humans to understand a lot more than they did previously. It all started by wondering about the mathematical descriptions of the […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]