Oddly Incorrect

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  • 29: Politics over Product, All About Power
    • Canceling meetings two minutes before the meeting
    • All about power and priorities
    • Habitual lateness based on seniority
    • Playing the status game
    • Machiavelli's The Prince should be required reading
    • Corporate America is becoming politics over profit
    • 1099 workers are the only ones that work, everyone else is just covering their asses
    • New Blood vs Organizational Culture
    • You are hired to alleviate risk
    • Androgynization of Corporate America
    • Power and control
    • Women are just as competitive as men and use covert means instead of overt means.
    • A Beautiful Mind - bar scene rejection
    • Lesson: don't go after the decision-maker
    • Companies are built around the male form of competition
    • Going woke is a mitigation strategy against the Twitter mob
    • The woke brigade is now physically going after you unless you concede
    • Finite and Infinite Games
    • People don't want to be called out from the herd, if you call people out they will do anything not to be called out
    • Go after the instigators in the group to defuse the group
    • Who is leading BLM and Antifa? Seems no one
    • Who is the Antifa top dog? Is it George Soros?
    • It's all about POWER.
    • RBG: On a pedestal. The last wish was already done when JFK was killed
    • Martin Luther King Jr. is being ignored because we are now supposed to judge people by the color of their skin instead of the content of their  calendar
    • There is a meme floating around saying that AI is already running our lives, according to Scott Adams and The Social Dilemma, but there is always a human (or a bunch of humans) behind the AI
    • "We will communicate better when you agree with me."
    • Communication has nothing to do with agreement
    • Everytime we think this time is crazy but things have always been crazy
      • 1 hr 2 min
    • 28: Ban Fun, Trans, Being Male, Democrat City Endgame
      • Chris wishes he lived in San Diego, lifting restrictions
      • Getting paid to be abused in college
      • Are they banning fun? Beaches and anything fun is banned.
      • We are not as worried as we were - we no longer need to ban
      • The rational approach would have been to quarantine the sick
      • The six-foot rule was made up by a high school kid
      • There is NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to the 6 foot rule
      • Postmodern Science is different from Science
      • Transgenderism is a mental disorder, change my mind.
      • It should be treated as such, and not be encouraged
      • How can you be FOR SCIENCE, and deny biology?
      • Especially transgendered athletes, that should be banned
      • They are only switching genders to win since the wouldn't otherwise
      • Our standards of mental illness are shifted
      • Social pressure and social manipulation drive it
      • Kids will do anything to fit in
      • Boys want to be women: seeing the power balance shift to  women
      • Where is the "male" in the "Future is Female"
      • The Democratic party and BLM are run by women
      • Marxist doctrine recruits women to attack men as men are less likely to defend themselves against women - the Wall of Moms
      • Who is the Bond Villain funding all of this? Soros?
      • What is the Democrat mayor endgame? Destroy capitalism
      • ANTIFA should be called ANTICA
      • They are purposely destroying capitalism in their cities to rebuild society from the ground up
      • Marxist doctrine - destroy the superstructure
      • Maybe they are trying to drop housing prices to next to nothing to destroy individual property rights.
      • Its "reverse gentrification" - destroy cities so that property gets cheap - then the bankers buy back the cheap real esates
      • Or is this Amazon trying to destroy small businesses so that everyone has to buy from them online?
      • Let's burn it all down and start over: MARXIST DOCTRINE
      • The true elite, like Pelosi and Benioff are never leaving SF
      • You have to destroy the myths before you destroy capitalism
      • Sports is another structure of capitalism
      • Only the rich can implement Marxism - its all about control and power
      • Playing with people is just leisure for the rich
      • Jeff Bezos will run for president one day
      • Do we want someone bored to run the country?
      • At least Trump is pretty entertaining
      • The "Harris/Biden" administration. A Freudian slip, or floating a trial balloon? Nothing is authentic anymore
      • The Pope doesn't run the Catholic church
      • Why are all the polls Democrat skewed?
        • 1 hr 5 min
      • 27: Matrixed Organizations, Change, Power and Civilizations
        • Hearts vs Spades
        • Project Management
        • Recalcitrant employees
        • Working with unions
        • Why did we move to a matrix management model?
        • TQM, self-managed teams, self-directed teams
        • Change management
        • Having power over others
        • Team charters and project charters
        • Hierarchical management 
        • Responsibility and accountability
        • De-risking the situation and blaming others
        • Not seeing your manager for months
        • Holocracy
        • Customer reviews are all BS
        • Sushi in the desert, and at gas stations
        • Cheesecake Factory and food poisoning
        • Eating Durian
        • Adventurous eating
        • Most vegetarian food is pumped with unhealthy stuff
        • Next week: Are They Banning Fun?
          • 59 min
        • 26: Defending Looting, Ownership, Theft and Deconstructing Why
          • The end of the Renaissance Man
          • Wouldn't it be cool if there was a "Book Day"
          • Christmas & Easter were co-opted days too
          • A business is a concept - a brand
          • In Defense of Looting - how can you defend looting? You can, if you define that there is no such thing as private property - its the Hegelian Dialectic
          • The Wrap Up Smear - get something false published in a supposedly authoritative publication, then leverage that authority
          • Yahoo News was an aggregator then became a news organization, so it became more authoritative - they really had no authority
          • Car lots on the weekends were like carnivals
          • Marketing is 90% of your business expense and time
          • Looting is a physical manifestation of Marxism. If the property is everyone's, then people are within their rights to steal whats stolen back again
          • They are trying to say that there is no such thing as theft.
          • If the looters were looted then they would be pissed off
          • This book is being used as a justification for looting.
          • Determining the WHY
          • Should we go through the 5 WHYs?
          • Historical steps and/or motivations
          • Loving Learning is great - but what happens when you have learned
          • Who can benefit from what we know?
          • How to market - monetizing and marketing are very different
          • Being F2F is actually an anomaly
          • Can we not manage remotely all the time - we have to make the remote better than in person
          • What is WHY? Part of Six Sigma - has anyone applied the 5 whys to a podcast - motivational interviewing
          • It comes down to internal motivation - the reason things happen is that someone wants something to happen.
          • We will never get to the truth
          • the 5 whys peel away a lot of assumptions
          • Motivational interviewing might be the way to do it.
            • 1 hr 3 min
          • 25: Pre-Internet, Passion & Work, Cloud Computing
            • Believe it or not, we aren't watching the DNC/RNC
            • Its pretty boring stuff, actually
            • Interesting differences between the presentations
            • Parents are protesting in Quebec
            • Most parents want their kids back in school
            • The SAT/ACT should not be studied for - but the educational system is so messed up that kids need tutors just to get by - this is why Kaplan and other tutoring services are rocking
            • Tests are pretty useless now - they are only about memorization - and who needs to use memory anymore
            • Our passion is learning.
            • We talk a bit about how messages flew around between people prior to the internet - here is Chris' BBS listing (BizBase)
            • The modern internet started with the web - if it wasn't for Netscape we wouldn't be here today
            • We used to have paper Yellow Pages of websites to go to
            • We also used to have to pay for long-distance phone calls
            • Reddit is the closest to the old Listservs, and now that's gone too
            • Is there really such a thing as the butterfly effect?
            • Can one person really change the world? Only if they go viral.
            • Facebook is now using concepts similar to the stock market to stop memes before they go viral - why would Facebook wan to do that? Stop-loss is a very different concept.
            • These tech companies really are kind of evil. They only like certain kinds of free speech
            • First time Facebook ban for Dutch - just for sharing a Putin/Vaccine meme
            • We close with some chatter Confidential and cloud computing, in case you are interested...
              • 59 min
            • 24: Spreading Lies, What About Jobs? & "Big Mike"
              • Who talks more - Dutch or Chris?
              • Whats better - Live or prerecorded? To edit or not to edit? Its a time management issue - records 6-7 shows at once - do live in a slot.
              • Shouting into the wilderness - we need to drive engagement.
              • Lets to a live show! Editing is soul-sucking.
              • We are using vocalized pauses - ah/uh/basically and So!
              • How do you feel about "Sharing Lies" online? Do you feel bad at all when you share something which later turns out to be a lie?
              • We make decisions based on the information we know at the time.
              • Sharing the "Trump locking up mailboxes lie."
              • Stream of consciousness - no one calls out errors.
              • It's too hard to prove a lie or a fact.
              • Never apologize - its a sign of weakness.
              • Most of it is opinions and not facts - apologies for face-to-face.
              • People don't feel bad about sharing lies - have people lost the ability to care about sharing myths - its the tragedy of the commons in game theory.
              • Most people don't care - they just share
              • Being anti-postmodernist
              • Politics: the choice between two awful choices
              • Trump was the disruptor.
              • Hillary outspent and still lost.
              • When did the Democrats stop talking about jobs? When they went full Marxist - They were all about outsourcing - but why did they stop caring about jobs? They forgot their original vision.
              • Why did the unions stop championing American Jobs?
              • Wall Street bankers decided to move things to China.
              • It's all about bringing things down - Marxism is a pessimistic vision of the world.
              • Providing government housing and UBI should allow humans who are getting it to unleash a creative spirit.
              • It's eliminating the cycle of pain - some people don't like working for others.
              • Mans Search for Meaning - metaphors for hope
              • Do we need a crisis to drive change? Maybe we are too comfortable.
              • Do we need to start engineering crises
              • Responses to a crisis may not be what you expected the answer to be
              • Its crisis after crisis - we are going to see the middle between the old normal and the new normal - it's a negotiation.
              • Michelle Obama leads to a "Big Mike" hashtag - if she is a he, then why not reveal it - you think that they are not leaking with language? Isn't it past time to just go ahead and reveal it.
              • Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, will not be on the ballot.
              • Hillary and Kamala - is that the ticket?
                • 1 hr 4 min
              • 23: Emotion, Diversity, Multiculturalism & Moral Foundations
                • To swear, or not to swear, that is the question.
                • Can you golf without beer? If you don't have a cart...
                • Ribbing each other helps you think quicker on your feet, it teaches adaptability - sometimes its a guy thing - some of the time
                • People are too sensitive - its hard to tease people nowadays - Californians cannot handle sarcasm
                • Too prone to hurt someone's "feelings" - If you are hurt by speech, then it's on you - an example of "meanness"
                • Competition for status - and hone your thinking skills
                • Why do we need to express our emotions all the time?
                • Are you telling me that I control YOUR feelings? It's an excuse for bad behavior
                • Cancel culture and pushing back - they probably have really bad self-esteem and confidence - they are emotional vampires
                • Silence should be allowed - I don't NEED to support what you support
                • Everyone is human - we are using the least important aspect of a person to treat them differently - its what's on the outside that counts.
                • Multiculturalism is stuck in the past - you get to keep your culture - and still get all of the free stuff socialists
                • We need diversity of thought, diversity of experience, not diversity of external appearance. Peer pressure with groups applies too.
                • Yoga is cultural appropriation by mostly white women? Or is it a marketing problem?
                • You never step in the same river twice. You are a different person than you were 15 minutes ago.
                • We need to teach philosophy in school. We need to teach kids about Zeno's Paradox - Geometry and Math never used to be connected.
                • We need moral grounding - fairness, harm, authority, community, and purity - moral grounding is nothing new - we need to teach it to kids.
                  • 1 hr
                • 22: George Floyd: Illuminati, ROI of Woke, Dem Nomination Turnstiles
                  • It's important to moisturize
                  • In ancient Greece, they thought literacy was bad. Kids used to memorize 10,000+ lines of poetry
                  • As time goes by, we lose cultural references
                  • You pull on those references to create different emotions within your audience.
                  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (an Eric Metaxas recommendation)
                  • Expanding the Overton Window from both directions
                  • Dissecting the full George Floyd bodycam footage
                  • These protests and rioters are probably professional agitators
                  • George Floyd Tatto0 - is he connected to the Illuminati?
                  • Are conspiracies real? Can humans really be that organized?
                  • 13 bloodlines to the Illuminati?
                  • Alien Encounters
                  • Is pedophilia widespread in Hollywood? Where is the evidence?
                  • Ricky Gervais called them out - Tom Hanks, Chrissy Teigan
                  • Justin Bieber was a choirboy
                  • Go woke, go broke.
                  • Sports are joining the multitudes falling in the hole.
                  • The ROI of "Woke"
                  • People will vote for a 2x4 over Trump
                  • There is only an 80% chance that Joe Biden will win the Democratic nomination according to PredictIt.
                    • 53 min
                  • 21: COVID Conspiracies, BLM, Marx, and Polling
                    • Teleconferencing Fun: Forgetting to MUTE!
                    • Falling asleep in meetings and training courses
                    • I fell asleep in a meeting
                    • Conspiracy Theories: White Coat Conference in DC eliminated from Facebook - because they said that HCQ was effective in treating COVID-19 - it's safe AND a cure. That's why they took it down. They can't handle the truth. HCQ has been around forever.
                    • Do COVID-19 antibodies not last? Then a vaccine is useless.
                    • It's all about FAUCI 2020
                    • Free Speech: Swastika Masks
                    • Walmart is WOKE
                    • BLM supporters are "soft targets" - if you show weakness - they attack harder - if you push back, they move on. They are bullies who only go after the EASY targets.
                    • Terrorists and Rioters are Joe Biden Voters
                    • You can never be woke enough - for example - no one can be as Good as Doug Forcett
                    • You can't respawn in life
                    • Rules for making capitalism look bad
                    • It's Marx, rearing his ugly head once again
                    • Socialism is so ingrained in education no one can detect it
                    • Critical Theory is a deconstruction
                    • No need to talk to dumbasses or fanatics
                    • Polling is all a lie
                    • The news media is not even playing the same sport as the truth
                    • Chik-fil-A, Red Bull and Nitro Cold Brew
                    • Does caffeine run the world?
                    • Communes ALWAYS fail
                    • Bionomics
                    • The collective VS the creative
                    • Bureaucracies kill creativity
                    • Maslow's Hierarchy does not map to human psychology
                    • Givers and Takers
                    • Waterfall software development is a mistake
                    • Debunking.
                    • The Wrap-Up Smear
                      • 1 hr
                    • 20: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics - Trumpers Being Hunted - Masks
                      • We talk masks, stats, and hunting Trump supporters - will it happen?
                      • Bone conducting headphones - good or great?
                      • The podcast microphone section in Best Buy was practically empty
                      • There is magic in the world. Wizards among the Muggles
                      • Persuasion is more art than science
                      • We all manipulate other people all the time. It's not even a question
                      • Coercion doesn't need to be physical - gaslighting, peer pressure, ostracisation, etc
                      • Being kicked out of the tribe might be the worst thing that can happen to you - same as solitary confinement
                      • Looks at anomalies to determine the mainstream - words, and tone can be manipulation
                      • Statistics: all statistics are manipulated - there is no way to confirm reality - even if experiments are done multiple times
                      • They care to conflate COVID tests with COVID anti-body tests - this is why the numbers are huge
                      • Every time you get tested is a CASE. Plus, add in all of the false positives, you have big numbers which are wrong
                      • They can't handle the truth. The truth would create cognitive dissidence
                      • If you are really scared, you will run. Otherwise, you'll pull out your phone and record it
                      • People cannot make sub-optimal decisions - they make decisions based on the data they have
                      • Ignore and discount studies and statistics which are non-repeatable
                      • Quantum is a different world. Humans can't even think of quantum things.
                      • Will it be a free-for-all or open season on Trump supporters if Joe Biden wins?
                      • Are non-mask-wearers going to be identified as Trump supporters and be the ones hunted
                      • We are months into COVID-19 and we still seem to know nothing about it!
                      • The next big battle: Getting kids back into schools
                        • 1 hr 2 min

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