Banana People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar23_Post.mp4 Imagine a monkey. A proto human, if you like. And this monkey lives in banana jungle. This monkey, like all metaphorical or stereotypical monkeys, loves bananas. But bananas don’t just poof into existence because you want one. Monkeys need to put in some effort to find bananas. […]
Caveman Money
Old School https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar18_Post.mp4 Adam Smith described money making as enlightened selfishness. Right off the bat, when you start talking about money or Adam Smith, you are in the world of economics. And from the world of economics, from an academic standpoint, it sounds like a bunch of obscure rules and laws that people […]
Silver Love Linings
Love Clouds Some of the most powerful insights are also the most uncomfortable. Adam Smith mentioned a few hundred years ago that everybody is driven by selfish behaviors. This can be bad, this can be good. Really, really good. His famous line is that the butcher, the baker, the brewer don’t […]
Be The Adult In The Room
Give Me! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb10_Post.mp4 Most people are still operating from a childhood mindset these days. This isn’t about social media or anything. This was something Jung noticed back in the day. That many “adult” problems stem from thinking like children. How so, specifically? Way back in the day, before agriculture, getting […]
Friend Generator Frame
Team Of Experts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec24_Post.mp4 I used to be a huge fan of Michael Crichton books. They all had pretty much the same overall theme. There was some kind of problem that required a scientific solution. And somebody would assemble a group of experts to solve the problem. This same type of […]
Zero Interest Hamburgers
Spinach https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug14_Post.mp4 Way back in the day, Popeye cartoons were popular. When I was a kid, they had OLD Popeye cartoons on TV. Popeye of course, is the goofy guy who ate spinach, got really strong and beat the crap out of the bad guys. But he had a buddy named Wimpy. […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
Play The Most Ancient Game
Maslow’s Mistake https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar26_Post.mp4 What does it mean to be self-actualized? This is the top of Maslow’s hierarchy. Maslow’s hierarchy is something that is kind of misunderstood. It’s one of those things that’s kind of repeated so much it’s believed to be an iron clad law of human nature. In reality, the […]
Vampire Parasite Metaphors
Invisible Spies The NSA has developed a phone app that is mechanical. This is because many people are leaving their cell phones at home, so they can’t be tracked. But the new phones have microscopic drones that follow you everywhere. So even if you leave your phone at home, the NSA can […]
Bowling Ball Magic
Best Museum I went to this really amazing science museum once in Hong Kong. They had tons of floors, tons of rooms with tons of different science exhibits and interactive things in a bunch of different rooms. Like a gigantic mall, but every shop had something to do with science. There was […]