Emotional Logic According to psychologists, the human brain is wired for subconscious logic with emotional inputs. This means that we think we think logically, but in reality this is a hallucination. Even more interesting is we all think we are the logical ones, but everybody is driven by irrational emotions. Kite Flyer […]
Rat Dragon Apocalypse
Gaming Tournament There’s this pretty cool hobby shop in my neighborhood. Most of the time this is a normal place, selling normal hobby type things to normal people. But every couple of months they have these really intense underground tournaments. Where they try and make this as absolutely as possible. Trip […]
Hierarchical Brain Structures
Big History If you study big history, you’ll see plenty of similarities between all major civilizations. Doesn’t matter where or when they are, they all share many similarities. For example, you’ll find pyramids in plenty of cultures. Egyptian, Meso-American and ancient Greece. Another common trait is how they modified the environment to […]
Ancient Witches and Monsters
No Show Client The other day I went to meet a client at a bar, but as soon as I walked into the bar the client texted me and said she couldn’t make it. I was expecting to eat lunch with this client I went ahead and ate lunch anyway. After I left I […]
The Freeloader Problem
Two Sides Of A Deadly Coin Way back in the day, we humans lived in small tribes of a few hundred people. Life was harsh. Getting food was difficult and dangerous. Predators were everywhere, and the food tended to run away. Animals didn’t want to be killed and eaten. Hunter Gather Instincts We humans […]
Fiat Death
How Paper Money Slowly Kills Us Quite a bold article, right? There’s plenty of posts from economic and fringe sites about the dangers of fiat currency, but I’d like to focus on how fiat currencies slowly whittle away our motivation. We’ll look at this from a personal development and motivational standpoint. What Is Money? […]