Originally published April 30, 2022 Many social media friends message me and ask things they don’t want on the public feed (and I never name names), but there’s one question that comes up a lot: Why are many conservatives ultra religious, even if they don’t actually go to church and…

If there’s one tool I’ve been trying to put in my reader’s toolkits for dealing with the world, it’s this: Humans are not logical, rational beings and trying to reach them with logic and reason is doomed to fail. That’s as true in marketing as it is in neuroscience as…

The history of the human race is a history of humans solving one problem and creating new problems with that solution. In the late 1800s, industrialization lead more people to move to big cities and the horse and carriage was still the primary means of transportation. Anyone who has ever…

From Soviet Collapse to the Mueller Report Humans are very good short-term fixes and very bad at predicting long-term consequences. After the fall of Baghdad, the Bush Administration banned Saddam’s Ba’ath Party Members from participating in the new government and disbanded his fearsome Republican Guard and all of the Iraqi Army top command. Short term fix to…

I can draw a direct line from a 1984 book called Neuromancer to the current rise of White Nationalism and racial populism. Neuromancer author William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” to describe the non-physical space that we all imagine when we deal with interconnected computers. That book came out a…

I am fascinated by belief and disbelief. It fascinates me that people believe in things that aren’t real and will defend those beliefs vociferously. It fascinates me that despite any evidence, people will believe in alien abductions, ghosts, angels, fairies, and zombies. If fascinates me that people believe in luck…

There is a hidden epidemic in America. It costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Millions of people are affected, thousands die from it every year, and the long term cost is unfathomable. It is not a stretch to say that the vast majority of the issues plaguing our…

Let’s talk about reality and our perception of it. There are many diagnoses for people who don’t entirely view reality properly. Of those, let’s touch on schizotypal personality disorder first. There are varying degrees of disorder, but the symptoms are similar. These people misinterpret reality, tend to believe in supernatural…

Let’s talk about being human for a minute. Everything exists in analog in the universe. Not digital. We love to think everything is right/wrong, on/off, left/right, but it’s not. The universe is analog. Think of it like this: everything is a dial, not a switch. Including humans. Including you. People…