Oddly Incorrect episodes:

• September 22, 202029: 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

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• September 15, 202028: 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?

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• September 08, 202027: 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?

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• September 02, 202026: 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.

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• August 25, 202025: 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...

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• August 18, 202024: 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?

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• August 11, 202023: 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.

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• August 04, 202022: 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.

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• July 28, 202021: 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

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• July 20, 202020: 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

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