Long Game https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug20_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting theory posed by an economist. A couple of economists actually. The first compared life before agriculture to life after agriculture. When you are a hunter gatherer, you are always living in the now. If you are hungry, you go out and kill something now and […]
Dominate Crowds
An Educated Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun16_Post.mp3 One of my favorite movies is Tombstone. And one of my favorite scenes is the scene in the casino. When Johnny Ringo was trying to show off by twirling his gun around. And then Doc Holiday countered by twirling his drinking cup around. But then they started […]
Always Better Now
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 […]
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 […]
Thrive On Clown Show Planet
Rulers and Workers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug09_Post.mp4 One of my favorite lines is from an old Clint Eastwood movie. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. A couple of guys chasing after some gold hidden somewhere. The good guy was Clint Eastwood. He and the ugly guy were more or less working together. […]
Evil Alien Democracy
Debt Is Life I read an article by this economist named Richard Duncan. He said that ever since world war two, every time the debt has not expanded more than 2%, the U.S. economy has gone into a recession. This means out economy is not only dependent on debt, but it’s dependent on […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]