Saturday, December 15, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Max Happine$$
I try to use money to maximize happiness, mostly my own.
A gift costs the same price but creates more happiness.
Vending Machine Companies
Vending Machine company, great way to get product out but underutilized for different products.
Where is Fancy Bread
What % of geniuses enter which fields by choice? Where is there the least competition. Where is the most innovation being focused.
Grand Education
Am I deluded by the grandeur of education and the prospect of knowledge? Too late now
Aspirations of Outlandishness
I have aspirations of outlandishness. Unlike obsessions about accidentally blurting out something inappropriate and creating compulsions to attempt to stop, I aspire to my obsessions and inaction becomes my compulsion.
High School
High School represents a extreme of high self efficacy within an extremely limited sphere of influence during a period of predominate low influence within unforeseen horizons.
A Strange Prison Story
A man was sent to prison but prison in the community is atop a tall pillar where the solitary prisoner would live. They could admire the world going on but would be too distant to engage in it. The torture is showing what they are missing. Ironically, the prisoners end up becoming the mot knowledgeable about society and its working and we follow the prisoner going through the revelations of knowledge. He begins almost completely ignorant, smart but untaught to society, born and "raised" in the wild.
Things noticed are at first strange to the prisoner but with time to work them out he finds solutions. Sometimes these conclusions are erroneous and sometimes correct by future knowledge or by a re-evaluation of, recent learned knowledge and their potential impacts. Some are never corrected and potentially overlay with the authors conceptions of societal flaws.
Beginning with prisoner attempting to shout down but falling on deaf ears.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Static Paradigms
Have you ever come up with an analogy so convincing and persuasive that you are blinded by new knowledge that doesn't fit within the paradigm? Check yo'self.
Likely Rivals
I don't know if I would get a better reaction trolling Gloria Steinem fans with Lil' Wayne or the other way around.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
As the world turns
Sometimes the only thing keeping me going is forgetting that I'm already in motion.
Comforting Fixation
Anything can become comforting during a period of fixation. That's why you should test everything you love by leaving it for a little while and coming back just to make sure it isn't just comfort and also so there is still excitement in the relationship and you don't become overly habituated.
Kid ego's
If kids weren't so egotistical they would be much harder to handle. Feeling that someone is watching you is almost entirely inconsistent with reality. This is why it feels like parents have eyes in the back of their head. This feeling than carries over to when they aren't actually being watched.
Problem kids come about when they have inattentive parents and they feel the can escape the eye.
Our generation
I feel like the only true artists in our generation are all scientists you just don't see them because they stand out in a direction that provides a more concrete value to society.
Notable exceptions: Kanye West, Lady Gaga
Blue chips
I see tech jobs as the most efficient step towards automation of society. The closer we can get to fewer jobs needed dedicated to survival of species and more toward entertainment will hopefully eventually turn us into an artisanal society where the only value is placed in art(the world's definition of art will approach mine) because everything else is provided.
Easier to find
Is it easier to be famous than to impress your friends? to be famous all you have to do is be extreme for one moment For your friends you have to maintain incredibility for much longer.
Selfish Fashion
The key to fashion is to be selfish about it, it's not what you are wearing but that YOU are the one wearing it.
The clothes are static what can be different is the whole picture, you define the whole picture.
If you don't treat fashion this way you in my opinion you are just playing dress up.
What internet?
I think its funny when people try to give illustrative example of why the internet is so great. The internet is so versatile that any concrete example invariably falls short and makes the speaker sound like they actually have limited knowledge of the subject.
"You can play solitaire on it!"
Fighting for Conflict
The idea of being a character in a story is the implied adventure. Every story has conflict thrust upon it. In real life you have to fight for conflict.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Sexual transmissions
Are the neurotransmitters released during consensual sex dramatically different from those released during rape?
Public speaking technique
Have everyone repeat after me "I will..." This bind them in a verbal agreement that they will feel more entitled to support.
Fake it till you make it
Fake it till you make it... then continue to fake it for the rest of your life. It will continue to get more instinctive through experience. As Aristotle wrote, "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not an act but a habit."
Judging Bias
As top tier lawyers are know for high percentages of conviction or acquittal, judges would be aware of this and a confirmation bias would be present.
Better Lover
I bet you'll discover
I'm a better lover
when you're tethered to a feather bed
under the covers
Increased carrying capacity
I would like to see a pie chart the detailed major technical impacts percentage impact on increasing carrying capacity. Start with segmentation by category, nutritional, medical, etc and then become specifics become difficult.
Balanced Journalism
"Does balanced journalism mean finding people to support stupid ideas" good character/reoccuring sketch where ridiculous opinions are voiced with even time.
Plastic bag ban
I picked up a hooker on Sammish way and she charged me 5 cents for not bringing my own bag.
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Parenthood
Being a parent is like watching over you friend who has taken way too many mushrooms while you have also taken a reasonable amount of mushrooms. You don't really know what you are doing and whats going on but you're pretty sure they shouldn't be putting that in their mouth.
One of the best analogies I have heard from a standup I can't remember.
Listen Up Johnny
One great thing about having kids is they have to listen to all the stupid things you say and they even think you are smart.
Create, Evaluate, Analyze
Begin discussions by randomly selecting students to make a statement about a given topic on the board. The statement can have elements of truth or be completely false, it doesn't matter and the student doesn't have to tell anyone if they think its true or not. The class instead has a discussion as to weather or not they think the statement is true or not.
Additional suggestions
Place a despised but necessary task after discussion so that it could be pushed back by a longer discussion for participation motivation.
This exercise provides
Understanding of value statements through the gradual realization of what kinds of statements lead to longer discussions.
Discover the complexity of issues combined with varying perspective.
Top of the Class
In any size group of children, some will rise to the top and some will sink to the bottom. Therefore we should regularly segment off the top rather than remove from the bottom so that everyone else will be rewarded for positive achievement and utilizes social structures.
Manifest destiny #1
Adam and Eve tells the story that even in a perfect world man is destined to sin. A poor environment can therefore not be an excuse for sin.
Running in the Halls
I'm going to start a petition to allow running in the halls. Kids issues are under represented in our legislation.
What is that
Sometimes I follow a random train of thought and it takes me to places where I don't have knowledge so I end up asking the people around me some ridiculous non-sequiturs. It always seems like I'm asking grammatical questions out of context "What is that?" "No sorry, I mean what part of speech is the word that"
Hunter/Gatherer
In the paleolithic era, a defining gender roles of society was of men hunting and women were gathering. This defines a large portion of the differences between men and women (here I must give deference to the miracle of childbirth). While many qualities that make men superior hunters to women are immediately obvious to me,(just look at the Olympics), the comparable qualities that make women better at gathering escape me. Does anyone have some answers?
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