Lucid Dreaming
A while ago I was interested in learning to lucid dream. The motivation petered out, but I still think lucid dreaming has a lot of potential as side interest. One area that would be worth exploring is using lucid dreaming as a staging ground for therapeutic purposes – essentially a safe environment to overcome trauma or work on social cues. Lucid dreaming is the concept of controlling your dreams, or Read More
On Advertising, V2
Speaking of advertising, I think the FarmersOnly advertising campaign would make a pretty good case study. I don’t know how effective it’s been, but if my gut is correct, their numbers are probably doing like gangbusters. Here’s the ad I’ve been seeing recently. What’s so great about it? First, I think it does a fantastic job at qualifying its target demographic. I’d imagine the first thought in a person’s mind when Read More
On Ads
Advertising to minors should be illegal. It’s crazy to look back and see what corporations have been able to get away with. If you think about it, advertising is essentially a low level form of mind control, in which a company will attempt to insert itself or its product into your mind space or get you to associate pleasant connotations with it. Advertising to the young can be a way Read More
On The Wheel
Man, the wheel was such a great invention. I walked to the grocery store today – about one and a half miles. I think I bought somewhere in the range of 30-40 pounds of groceries, which would’ve made for a pretty shitty walk back. Fortunately, there’s a bus line from the grocery store in the direction of my house which dropped me off about half a mile away. I walked Read More
Blog idea: Urban exploration
Sometimes I like to spitball ideas for things I’d like to see out in the wild. Bear in mind, I’ve done absolutely no prior research on this topic, so for all I know, this niche has already been fulfilled. The concept is google earth lite: the blog, or google maps street view with a more human touch. The gist of the blog is to document the walk between two random destinations – say, from Read More
On sleep
Sleep is great – I never regret the extra time I spend sleeping. On the other side of the coin, I often regret not going to sleep earlier. I always function at a lesser capacity when I don’t get enough sleep. It’s unfortunate that I do stay up past my bed time, because it’s usually the case that whatever I’m doing isn’t as important as getting enough rest, and I Read More
On Hobbies and Finding Your Passion
I like the idea of being passionate about something. Having said that, I don’t really have a passion. I do have hobbies, though. For me, hobbies are something that improve the quality of my life in some way – something I can derive satisfaction from, or gain physical or mental benefits. However, they’re optional. I can do without them pretty easily, but they’re nice to have. Is it good to Read More
Rubber Duck Blogging
I have many inspirations for blogging, but I think the biggest impetus for me was this post by Steve Yegge: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs The post goes on to state the various benefits of blogging, but the one I want to focus on is the concept of rubber duck blogging. For those unfamiliar with the concept, rubber duck programming is something done when a programmer is stuck on their project and unsure of how Read More
Sportsball
When I was younger, I didn’t like sports. However, over time, my opinion changed from outright dislike to grudging acceptance of sports, to genuine enthusiasm for sports of all kind. I don’t usually go out of my way to watch it if it’s on TV, but I do like going to live games. Actually, much of my enjoyment of sports are due to reasons tangential to the sport itself. Watching Read More
On The Benefits of Blogging: Total Recall
One benefit of blogging that I’m looking forward to is improved memory recall. While I don’t know if my overall memory will be improved, I will be able to better recall the memories that I’ve written in blog posts, because I’ve spent time wiring them deeper in my brain by examining them in further detail. I had a friend who would write about the food he ate in restaurants to Read More