Change My Mind

Terry Tucker has been a SWAT Hostage Negotiator and Hospital administrator, he is currently an author, father of 2 and as he likes calling it a ''Cancer Warrior''.

There is much more nuance in life than we would like to admit, in this conversation Terry and I go through a wide range of topics, from endurance to meaning to conflict of interests in politics to escaping mediocrity.

Check Terry´s book Sustainable Excellence: Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon And Extraordinary Life

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Also, check Terry´s web page motivationalcheck.com

Noah Healy is a recreational mathematician that has developed CDM(Coordinated Discovery Markets), this new method has the potential to substantially reduce the cost overheads of commodity trading in the market, he is the first person in centuries to offer an alternative to the system which rules large-scale markets, in this episode we discuss the features of CDM, the potential it has to reduce cost overheads in trading commodities and the way incentives are aligned between producers, speculators and consumers by penalizing noise and incentivizing signal.  

CDM more technically is a a new method for operating a commodities exchange which publishes current and future prices of commodities to producers, consumers, and speculators, then receives offers to sell a commodity at the current prices from the producers, then receives offers to buy the commodity at the current prices from the consumers, then matches the offers to sell the commodity with the offers to buy the commodity, then computes the delivery contracts and sends directly to the producers and consumers, based on the matching, then receives confirmation of delivery of the commodity from the producers to the consumers and finally releases escrowed funds of the consumers to the producers   

Find Noah Healy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-healy/ 

CDM Web Page: coordisc.com

What is it that makes something good or bad?

Are we all condemned to interpret our intuitive perceptions (built through natural selection)of what ought to be done as either Good or Evil?

In this episode Baer joins me to reflect over what the origin of our moral perceptions is. We talk about the morality in relationship to determinism and how being considerate to our fellow terrestrial cohabitants is a must in order to permit our existence as a species.

We all know that state in which time seems to fly by while you are achieving at the highest rate, that is Flow State and it has a lot to do with not being aware of being aware of what you are doing, it's just doing in the purest form, 0 abstractions from what you are doing.

The State of Flow is highly joyful and makes what you are doing seem really meaningful. The opposite would be to be constantly hijacked by the hottest and newest trend that will perish in the following days.

Absorption transcends the individual and the moment, distraction on the other hand produces petty outcomes followed by a sense of not having achieved anything and having your soul being emptied.

Modifying your speech deliberately in order to conceal a deeper intent, to gather further information about the state of other people or to adapt the message to the intended purpose is a widely used technique that is mainly used implicitly, in this episode Baer and Alex discuss the topic with a critical perspective.

There are situations in which the existence of a conflict of interests leads us to not be as direct as we could be, misrepresenting reality to maximize our objectives(the example of a teenager getting hammered), others require mitigation due to the limited capacity of the other party to understand things to your level (either because this person is limited cognitively, is a child or because of the knowledge asymmetries that specialization requires).

Do beauty standards vary with time?

If this is the case… What is the standard that encompasses all of them?

Baer and I present here a theory that makes sense of the subjective sense of beauty, social trends and the status signaling through an evolutionary lens relating to the seeking of fitness maximization. Even if this is in the expense of collective fitness as long as it gives the individual more comparative fitness than it takes absolute fitness from the collective(A human’s Ferrari or a Peacock tail)

Why is it that we develop imposter syndrome? Why would nature equip us with the common feeling that we are not well prepared to deal with the situation we are facing?

In this conversation with life coach Denise Garrett we discuss the origin of feeling inadequate, how society expects us to be consistent with previous performance, generating a self-fulfilling prophecy in which mediocrity is promoted and greatness penalized as a side effect of a natural trait we should be aware of. We also talk about how we have not been selected for capacity to be fulfilled but for capacity to reproduce, showing how brutal and ruthless natural selection is.

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Robert Boog, is the author of 7 books among which ''Shakey's Madness: Does a Mental Disorder Reveal the "Real" William Shakespeare?'' is located, he bravely posits the thesis that Shakespeare was only a pen name to avoid backlash from contemporary royalty, backed by rigorous evidence gathered by the aforementioned author.

Boog started considering the story of Shakespeare as flawed by a diverse set of mutually exclusive facts that are held as true in the mainstream knowledge of the story relating to the worldwide-known author, he did a profound research in the last 2 years, pointing out to a specific person (Edward de Vere) as the most probable author of the works, backed by a richness of facts that makes the alternative story told by Boog as truly plausible and potentially Changing Your Mind.

Check ''Shakey's Madness'' , Robert´s latest book available on Amazon for more in depth evidence: Shakey's Madness

Germinal G. Van is an author, economist, political scientist, and scholar. He is a member of the National Association of Business Economics and the Economic History Association. His works mainly focus on Public Choice Theory, Economic History, Econometrics, Statistics, and Mathematical Economics. He has written more than a dozen books in Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, Business Economics, and Macroeconomics. He has also written several columns for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the Mises Institute. Moreover, he published several scientific papers, notably in professional academic journals such as the Journal of Economics and Econometrics.

In ‘‘The Moral Case for Capitalism’’ we discuss how capitalism is not only moral, but the only moral option, all the alternatives being bad economic philosophies, lead to human perishment. Although it must be noted that neither of us is anarcho-capitalist in the Rothbardian sense, both of us support the intervention of the government in the economy and think of it as a necessary evil due to what we consider inherent inefficiencies of the market, or failures of these as in free riders, the incapacity of a decentralized system to articulate a proper response to external centralized threats or the inability of the market to internalize costs and benefits in certain areas, leading to overproduction of negative outcomes and underproduction of positive outcomes.

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I am accompanied by Phil Ladbrook on this occasion, he is a professional English teacher with experience in marketing, he has resided in the Basque Country for 20 years.

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