Published in Feedium·6 hours agoMember-onlyAlgorithmic Heating: Virality Is A Choice And The Game Is RiggedWhat TikTok’s secret heating button reveals about virality. — We are all supposed be equal. Some are just more equal than others. In society, power laws apply. Most of the resources are controlled by a small percentage of people. It’s no different in the creator economy. A few individuals get most of the money. The rest? Peanuts, if anything. …Social Media7 min readSocial Media7 min read
Published in Predict·Jan 21Member-onlyWhat’s Waiting For You In 2023?My predictions for 2022 unfortunately proved right on the money. — Well, we are in the future once again. 2023. Hard to believe how fast the times go. When I was watching Back to the Future 2 as a kid, the year 2015 was something way into the future. Now, it’s the distant past! Still can’t believe it. What will 2023…Foresight4 min readForesight4 min read
Published in Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body·Jan 10Member-onlyThis Is How You Become FunnyMy series on how to tell jokes. — So you want to be funny? Everybody does. There is just one problem. Most people can’t pull it off. Don’t worry. There is a silver lining. Being funny is a skill that can be learnt, just like any other. Sadly, it involves a lot of boring practice. It takes hard…Humor2 min readHumor2 min read
Published in Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body·Dec 17, 2022Member-onlyYour Simple Guide To Being Funny 6: Even More On Joke FormsWow, there is even more stuff on being funny. — Jerry Seinfeld made a lot of money in his lifetime. How? He was great at telling jokes people could relate to. One example? Detergent commercials. “Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all…Humor9 min readHumor9 min read
Published in Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body·Dec 14, 2022Member-onlyYour Simple Guide To Being Funny 5: More Joke FormsAdd this to your humor arsenal. — Jay Leno is a master of commenting on society, and getting a laugh out of it. “For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn’t that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you’re average — hey, let’s get a pizza!” …Humor11 min readHumor11 min read
Published in Lessons from History·Dec 13, 2022Member-onlyCheck Out The New Meadows Texts, The Smoking Gun Revealing An Attempted Coup By TrumpThe first attempted coup by a sitting US president in American history. — “It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back,” thus wrote Ginni Thomas, wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The recipient was none other than Mark Meadows, at the time President Donald J. Trump’s (R-Florida) chief of staff. The initially released texts between Thomas and…US Politics5 min readUS Politics5 min read
Published in Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body·Dec 13, 2022Member-onlyYour Simple Guide To Being Funny 4: Joke FormsThere are lots of different types of jokes. — Most people think humor is a free-flowing thing without any structure. That’s not true at all. Structure is in fact, the key to humor. Most theories of humor state that the act of finding something funny is the result of things like surprise or incongruency. …Comedy9 min readComedy9 min read
Published in Lessons from History·Dec 11, 2022Member-onlyWhy Graham Hancock Is Just Plain Wrong About Ancient CivilizationsI love ancient advanced civilization theories, but there is no real evidence for them. — In his dialogue Timaeus and Critias, ancient Greek philosopher Plato has this curious passage: “But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner…History9 min readHistory9 min read
Published in Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body·Dec 10, 2022Member-onlyYour Simple Guide To Being Funny 3: How To Write A JokeHow to get people to laugh. — Now that we know about the structure of a joke and the different parts that it consists of, how do we actually go about writing it? What creative process do you need to go through in order to come up with the idea for a joke and then craft it…Comedy9 min readComedy9 min read
Published in Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body·Dec 9, 2022Member-onlyYour Simple Guide To Being Funny 2: The Anatomy Of A JokeHow to craft a joke. — George Washington was the first President of the US and is often given to kids as an example of what they should aspire to. When he was in his late teens, he wrote out a list of rules that a gentleman should abide by. The list contained such wise rules…Comedy4 min readComedy4 min read
