Surprise! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb07_Post.mp3 Once I went to dinner with a friend. I ordered a scotch on the rocks. While I was waiting, the waitress brought me a glass of water. Or, a glass of what I thought was water. But it was gin. Pure gin over ice. Taking that first […]
True Independence
Childish Minds https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb06_Post.mp3 When we are children, we have a simple strategy for getting what we need. Keep asking until somebody gives it to us. Then we make a transition. Or we used to, way back in the caveman days. The transition meant a shift in how we got our needs […]
Love Exchange
Co Evolution https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan06_Post.mp3 Adam Smith once described something very important. Paraphrased, it is the butcher the baker and the brewer don’t get up at the crack of dawn because they are concerned about us. They do that to make the best possible stuff, so we’ll pay for it. Little kids are taught […]
World Domination Secrets
Asian Trade https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept26_Post.mp3 During the middle ages, all the different European countries were battling for trade supremacy. Everybody in Europe was crazy about Asian goods. Spices from the spice islands, textiles from China, etc. This was the same back during the Roman Empire. Rome had a huge trade deficit with the […]
Monkey Money
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. […]