Words and Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb25_Post.mp3 Here’s an interesting fact I learned a couple of days ago. Consider the term, “The Buddha.” What does this mean, exactly? Was Buddha his name? Son of Mr. And Mrs. Buddha? Nope. The word “bodhi” is a verb in Sanskrit. “Buddha” is the past […]
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. […]
Lucid Dreaming Lab
Anti Anxiety Pattern There’s been a fairly recent discovery about how the brain will reconfigure itself during deep sleep to get rid of anxiety. This, of course, can lead to either positive or negative reinforcing loops. The less anxiety you have, the better you sleep, which will further decrease your anxiety. The […]
Harvard Scam Theory
Lecture I watched this really cool lecture the other day called, “The Harvard Scam.” This wasn’t actually about how Harvard is running some kind of scam. But it was about how most things are not how they seem. And most things are not wholly organic. Most things are a combination of […]
Long Term Vampire Cons
Breakup I have a friend who recently broke up with her boyfriend of two years. She’s really hot, and pretty smart, and I’d been expecting this for a quite a while. I’m not really sure why they were together, but you could tell she was dating way below her market value. In […]
Trade Magic Economics
Shoe Trader I read this story about a guy. He got a pair of shoes for Christmas or something. He kept them in the box. Then like six months later, he traded them for a skateboard. But then he kept the skateboard. Didn’t use it. And traded it for something else. And he kept […]
Story Of Life And Death
Garden Planning A couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago, I was standing out front of this house that I had just rented. I had written it just as winter was starting and the guy that I was renting it from said that I can do whatever I wanted to the garden. […]
Everything Is Hallucination
Our Memory Sucks It’s a very demonstrable fact that human memory is very very weak. We’ve all had experiences where somebody told us their name and we later forgot it even thought we wanted to remember it. We all have experiences being told what to study for a particular test in school. We studied but […]
Beehive Punch
Not A Good Idea If you were out hiking you saw gigantic beehive it wouldn’t be a good idea to punch the beehive because all of the bees would swarm out and sting you to death. If you were hiking through the forest by yourself when you suddenly found yourself in wolf territory and […]
How To Ditch The Warfare Model And Become An Elegant Verbal Ninja Of Love
I remember back when I was in high school, I was on the wrestling team. It was probably the best shape I’d ever been in. I had no idea when I started, one of my coaches recommended it. Our practice was broken down into three basic parts. Drills, conditioning, and strategy. The drills I understood, […]