Once You See Them https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr01_Post.mp4 Many things are invisible. But once you calibrate your mind to see them, you’ll see them everywhere. Their not really invisible, but intangible. A description of a process. A metaphor. One such metaphor is the reinforcing cycle, or loop. For example, think of something […]
Demon Brain Killer
Break Down and Build Up Building muscle, from a biological perspective, is pretty simple. You stress the muscle. You break down the muscle. And when it rebuilds itself, it becomes stronger. Can’t Get Anything Wrong https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug16ALoop.mp4 Most people are utterly terrified of making mistakes. So terrified that they play it […]
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
The Hallucinated Dinner Party
Library Expansion I’ve noticed a new thing they are having down at my local library. They’ve been putting up notices for these day trips. They are put on by the city, and I don’t think they library itself is involved in organizing these trips. I think the library is just a convenient […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Brown Bag Whiskey Drinker
Micro Brew Pub I went to this local micro brew pub recently. I’d been kind of curious about it. I’m not much of a beer drinker, but a long time ago me and a friend used to make beer. So I was just kind of curious as this place had a few of their own […]
Wait Until He’s Dead
Math Teacher There was this math teacher at this public high school in a kind of a low income middle income area. He was a very clever, very manipulative math teacher. He would target females. He liked the young under aged females, but he would pick them very carefully so that their parents wouldn’t […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Upper Management
Waiting For The Bus So the other day I was at the bus stop. I wanted to go downtown and pick something up. I didn’t want to drive. I did one take an uber. I wanted to kill some time. I wanted to spend two or three hours. I had a lot of stuff […]
Three Essential Truths
Flea Market Trip The other day I decided to go down to the local flea market. I had a few hours I wanted to kill and I like to go wandering around. Sometimes you find some good deals on pieces of furniture and other kitchen appliance equipment. I was wandering around and I saw […]
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