Author Archives: Konrad

The people you spend time with are the #1 of predicting your future. There is evidence your friends influence your weight. “The majority of the sixteen studies conclude that there is evidence of influence.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407325/ This influence extends into other factors. Spend time with people that are better than you. That make you uncomfortable The…More

On average, it is a pain as opposed to being a benefit. The people playing are usually not good. The venue would be better off playing a recording. Also, its generally loud and disrupts conversation. Which is the point of being in a restaurant. Not to see a show. I’m talking about live music that…More

As long as you produce and share it. In the past your work had to be valued by the people in your immediate community. Now you just need to find a thousand true fans out of the 7 Billions people in the world. This means that people like http://www.slingshotchannel.com/ can make a living. Just making…More

I have a tendency to assume that others think the same way I do. Or that they understand what I mean or am saying based on a few words. This leads to me asking for things and then being frustrated when they are not complete to the level that I intended. Its much easier to…More

I relied on willpower. Don’t rely on willpower. Its fascinating. After 2 years of getting up early and running / biking / doing something else, this mindset persists. My current hypothesis is that I haven’t been running much lately. I’ve been biking instead. So the habit of get up run and be excited about it…More

The same way people buy Ferraris or iPhones because they want to be seen as a certain type of person. Its an extension of the American Psycho mentality. Wanting to fit in. You see this playing out in real time recently with two high profile embarrassments. I hesitate to say failures because both these companies…More

The only way it breaks is Aliens. It feels like everything is only getting better. Even though there was a recession in 2008 the economy is back on track and cities have not fallen to pieces the way they did in the 70s. Instead, they’ve continued to grow. We have more public spaces, more construction.…More

1. Recount Stories. This tends to be where one person recounts a crazy thing they did and then everyone else is waiting to tell how their crazy story was even better. A lot of the time these are related to alcohol or drugs. 2. Solve Problems. Where the back and forth is talking about hypothetical…More

The initial critics or group of people that are exposed make a judgement. Either “OMG its amazing” or “The worst ever.”. And then everyone else just sort of takes that for granted. Without doing their own thinking. The tendency of not-so-great things to be extremely popular is heavily covered in the popular conscious. The other…More

Both how I can’t live about it and how other people don’t care about it. Simply defined: “the preparation of equipment and food before service begins” I apply it further to my life. I setup my surrounding so that there is a “default” state. This state is aesthetically pleasing and convenient. Everything looks good and…More