Inside Your Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr02_Post.mp4 No matter where you go, there you are. This is a quote from Buckaroo Banzai. Maybe not from him, but whoever wrote the book. Or maybe not from him, something he heard, as it’s a pretty common idea. We are always somewhere. Wherever we are, there […]
Your Secret Competitive Advantage
Lucky Read https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15_Post.mp4 Once I was playing flag football with some buddies. I was on defense. My job was to count three Mississippi’s and run in at the QB. But when I got to three, something felt a bit off. So I just stood there, not sure what to do. […]
Become A Master of Time
Slow People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug13_Post.mp4 The transition from hunting to farming was very, very slow. At least 5,000 years. The last ice age ended about 11,000 years ago. The very first pre-Sumerian cities didn’t pop up until about 5,000 BC or so. What took them so long? The lifestyle of a hunter-gather […]
Real Time Skills
Unfair Planet https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug12_Post.mp4 The Pareto distribution is an interesting concept. It says that 20% of any system does 80% of the work. For example, if you took all the athletes in any professional sport, 20% of the players score 80% of the points. This would easiest to see in something like basketball, […]
Change Your Time Space
Lucky People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11_Post.mp4 There are plenty different reasons for success. Most of which, are not under our control. This is something that’s hard to accept. But random luck has a lot more to do with our lives than anything else. At least for most people. The movie “The Social Network” […]
The Master Strategy of Time
Nothing Makes Sense https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug10_Post.mp4 Some things seem to be paradoxes on the surface. But paradoxes are really not an outward sign that something is “wrong.” Any paradox is a sign that we don’t have the total picture of what’s going on inside. For example, there’s a common idea that all self help […]
Leverage The Unknown Future
Darkness Coming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun20_Post.mp4 Once upon a time, a astronomer was giving a lecture. He was talking about the lifecycle of stars, and mentioned that our sun will burn out in about 5.5 billion years. A woman in the front row stood up, shrieked, and passed out. The astronomer rushed to her aid, […]
Stuck In A Time Loop?
Human Origin Story https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun15_Post.mp4 One of the most important things that ever happened in human history was the “discovery” or “invention” of agriculture. Before that, humans had to hunt. But then there was an ice age, and people had to worry about encroaching glaciers. Just like in the movie where that squirrel […]
Generate Irresistible Scarcity Of You
No Soup For You https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May02_Post.mp4 One of the more famous characters from Seinfeld is the “Soup Nazi.” Dude has some seriously delicious soup. His soup was SO popular, he didn’t need to advertise. Tons of people came for his delicious soup ONLY because of word of mouth. And because he always […]
Critical Time
Lost Sailors Once upon a time. The British empire. Over which. The sun never set. Had a problem. Their sailors. Didn’t always know. Where they were. Only Up And Down https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan09_Loop.mp4 They could fix latitude. Relatively easily. But fixing longitude. Was much more difficult. […]