Two Days https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug30_Post.mp3 Mark Twain famously said there are two important days in anybody’s life. The day your born, and the day you find out why. This, like many other cool sounding ideas, is a metaphor. And while it feeds our need to find our “purpose” it might not be so accurate. […]
Behind The Scenes Player
Efficient Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July16_Post.mp3 There’s a very common idea that those who really control society are hidden in the shadows. This is more metaphorical than “truth.” It is true that the most powerful people are not people most know about. Not necessarily “hidden in the shadows,” but behind the scenes. Hidden in […]
Shiny Objects
Small Points https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr16_Post.mp4 Evolution is kind of like credit card debt. Or the flip side, slowly built wealth. Meaning only a small percent interest can make all the difference. Einstein allegedly said that compounded interest was the eighth wonder of the world. The second richest fictional person is the leader of […]
Who’s Richer Than Scrooge McDuck?
Fictional Riches https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept09_Post.mp4 I read an interesting article a few weeks ago. It was in a business magazine. The article was about the ten richest fictional characters. The first was Scrooge McDuck. There’s plenty of photographic evidence of his riches. Mainly the one with him in a huge swimming pool […]
Don’t Be A Bruised Apple
Apples https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug22_Post.mp4 Once I saw a picture from the soviet union. From way back in the day. It was kind of like a Monty Python movie. Where they had one guy selling nothing. “I’ve got nothing for sale!” Funny in a movie, where everybody starving and broke in the dark […]
Dream Yourself A Fortune
How’d That Happen? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July26_Post.mp4 Plenty of cool inventions happened by accident. Most inventions were discovered on that path to something greater. For example, the space race of the 60’s and 70’s spawned a whole industry of related products. Personal electronics might not have existed had their not been a need for that […]
Escape The Most Evil Con
It All Adds Up https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun17_Post.mp4 Your entire life is the sum total of what you do on a daily basis. This is very hard to really accept. Most everybody has a plan for their life. But this “plan” is more of a wish. And this wish either involves somebody else doing […]
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, […]
The Money Life Game
One Causes The Other https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar25_Post.mp4 One old law from Economics is called “Say’s Law,” from a guy named Say. Basically, it says that production creates its own demand. This is very DIFFERENT from the idea of building a better mousetrap and the world beating a path to your door. Say’s law is […]
Peel Back Layers of Deception
Subliminal Popcorn https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar23_Post_1.mp4 There was a famous experiment done back in the fifties. Where they blasted subliminal messages to a movie audience. And, as the mythology goes, they sold more coke and popcorn to people because of these subliminal messages. If you are a big fan of conspiracy theories, the idea of […]
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