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  • 9: Individuality vs Collectivism
    Show Notes
    • Star Wars was destroyed since it perpetuated individuality - They killed off the myth of the solo man taking on the establishment - a variation of "go woke, go broke." - they have to destroy the mythology to replace it.
    • Who is behind all of this? We've gone from individuals to being the Borg - is China behind all of this - is collectivism driven by China.
    • Why do the Swiss guard the Pope? Are the Rockefellers and Rothschilds are on the run? Deep State = CIA?
    • Do conspiracy theories require co-ordination? More like someone sets a strategy, then the rest are footsoldiers
    • Is China behind all of this - the collective vision - the mainstream media - never letting a crisis going to waste is where we are currently - China is commerce without free speech- which is why the progressives love China so much
    • We are paying for our own demise.
    • Why do they want total control of the world - what is the cost-benefit
    • Why do people love collectivism? Why are people so eager to give up their individuality?
    • Compromise vs Collaboration - we need to learn to understand the difference.
    • Enough with the low hanging fruit already!
    • The New Normal? The question is - what is normal?
    • Eliminating the Heroes Journey - using feminine characters
    • Living in a female primary world - we are no longer creating men - we are creating slightly masculine women
    • Neither men or women are happy - we are all pushing against our natures and that why we are all so unhappy.
    • Why were goddess cults shut down in history? Why did the patriarchy crush the feminine in the past?
    • Why are we suddenly becoming collectivist - does it have something to do with living in cities.
    • Being unique is much harder than being entertaining
    • The Matrix movies are so relevant - who is the Architect?
    • This is predictive programming!
      • 1 hr 1 min
    • 8: Retiring The Handshake?
      • Let's just get the Virus and go
      • How about bowing or no-contact pinky swear?
      • Whatever we come up with we'll make it complicated
      • Is the big problem lack of good immune systems? Have we overprotected our kids too much - everything is all about safety!
      • When you found "The One", you don't get sick when you "Swap Spit"
      • You are carrying the DNA from every person you have ever kissed?
      • If all of your body cells replace themselves every 7 years, are you still you? How do you maintain that identity?
        • 11 min
      • 6: Will We Learn Any Lessons From This Crisis?

        Show Notes

        • If kids grades go up while they are at home, then homeschooling might take off - if they do better at home rather than at school
        • Kids who are homeschooled are socialized just fine
        • Certain professors were worried that the content of their lectures would get out to the rest of the world - what are they afraid of?
        • The Marxist orientation is what they are worried about - they don't want to deal with other theories
        • Will any school exist in brick and mortar in the next 10 years? If that cost is so low, why go in person?
        • We have been prizing face to face communications since we stood upright - but what if they are not necessarily the best
        • Face to Face communication is analog vs digital - there is an interaction difference - there are productivity gains in being remote
        • Relationship building is flawed in a remote model - but we are on video with our remote teams
        • Selfies are not their real-life self - they are their filtered selves -  You could be whoever you want to be online.
        • Many people never understood that they could be anything that they wanted to be
        • Everyone knows you like your name - almost impossible to change your name after the fact - too many people just know you as that.
        • You are your online persona.
        • We talk porn star names.
        • Businesses will need to learn triage - they will need to look at their customers and focus on those good customers - those will be the hardest to get back in - which to establish first - daily regulars
        • How will small businesses solve coming back from the Coronavirus - they ill need to start from ground zero - we don't know who will be able to come back
          • 17 min
        • 5: Tangential To The Coronavirus
          • Rebooting the economy - should we look at 9/11? Prior to 9/11, New York was not a friendly community, but it had changed. It was a totally different culture.
          • Will our culture change?
          • Small businesses will need to look at core customers first and determine wants vs needs.
          • How to reboot your high-contact service business? Preselling gift cards for future services.
          • Prior to this - personal service jobs were solid because jobs could not be outsourced - but now those are affected too.
          • Shows off who can and cannot be resilient
          • Bosses are going to have to fight to get office workers to come to the office. We will have a much different workforce going forward.
          • People are struggling to balance work and home on either side of the "commute wall". Like a psychological boundary.
          • People will need to adjust their home social psychology
          • Atomization of work
          • HR movement based on value not on time
          • A lot of business is based on want not need - they will look at things differently.
          • What regulations no longer apply.
          • Many people do not segment their time via a work breakdown structure
          • Kids wont listen anyway
            • 17 min
          • 4: A Return to Human Curation?

            Show Notes

            • Tracking facades is a lot of work
            • No solution to being able to balance good content targeted for search engines and humans
            • Yahoo! used to do this - supposedly linked the best quality content just by humans
            • Is it time to throw out algorithmically generated curation? There is no way to have that level of quality control. Its the difference between Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Brittanica
            • GOPHER, ARCHIE, JUGHEAD, and VERONICA?
            • There is no way to go back to the Yahoo! of old? Is there a business model in users paying a monthly fee for access to a human-curated directory. A Yahoo-Pedia for the 21st century?
            • What is quality? Quality is in the eye-of-the-beholder.
            • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
            • Inside - and curated newsletters are going pay and private - better content and curation by going pay. Is human curation the thing we pay for since algorithmic creation is failing us so badly?
            • Would you pay for someone to search through the crap? Just get a better thesaurus
            • There is no absolute truth - but is their value in getting the best content
            • Its a continuum between beauty and non-beauty - even if you don't get exactly what you need, it might be enough to take in the right direction. 
            • Build it better, but not perfect. There is a limit to what we can do - we will always be standing on the shoulders of giants.
              • 16 min
            • 3: Long-Form Content and TL;DR
              • How can you be spoiler-free in this world?
              • The long format is back: but we listen to videos and podcasts at double-speed - does this mean that there is a mismatch between the content and the listener?
              • Content is now long-form, but we still want the TL;DR
              • Audio is a better medium because you can multitask while you listen
              • Spending time to read a book will likely improve retention
              • The 50-page rule - if a book hasn't captured your imagination (fiction or non-fiction) by the time to hit 50 pages, give it up
              • Read the table of contents and glossary to rip through a book
              • How to solve the problem between search engines requiring long-form content and humans needing TL;DR
              • Needs a qualitative, not a quantitative measure
              • Maybe we should bring back the Yahoo! model - hand-curated directory model - community curation may be broken.
              • Look at peer reviews for journals - use credentials - eventually there is an equilibrium between the best-credentialed reviewer and the least. Put a lot of onus on the credibility of the reviewer
                • 17 min
              • 2: Relevancy & Resonance
                • Amazon Reviews
                • Does relevancy = length?
                • Why are blog posts so long? We have to build blog posts for both search engines and humans
                • The relevance algorithm is not ready
                • Brevity is the soul of wit
                • Instead of Relevance, you need Resonance = Credibility, Logic and Passion
                • Supreme Court is still an audible
                • We are seeing longer and longer podcasts and videos - they go on for multiple hours a day - are people really listening to this?
                • Critical Role - voice actors doing D&D
                • Is long-form audio and video content on the rise?
                • Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Boring, with no real distraction
                • Movies are getting longer and longer, Marvel arcs...
                  • 17 min
                • 1: Dutch & Chris Kick It Off
                  Show Notes
                  • The format of the show
                  • Messing with your listeners
                  • Alfred Hitchcock tells tales
                  • Psycho Spoilers
                  • Just what the heck is going on with Reddit?
                  • Racial anxiety on Reddit
                  • You can’t expect scientific results when talking to humans
                  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
                  • All polls are likely garbage – they start with the results and work backward
                  • Product Reviews are totally bogus data – it depends on how you felt at that moment in time
                  • Look at the 2-3 star reviews if you want the most realistic review
                    • 17 min

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