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Don’t mind the men behind the curtain

yella — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:10:54 +0000

In the seemingly excellent and very compelling documentary Don’t Mind The Men Behind The Curtain, a speaker leads us, step by step, through (a/the) history where the Federal Reserve is a big conspiracy controlling the world. The men running the FED take more and more control over various aspects of your life in order to [...]

Storytelling – A Social Skill

scr — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:04:51 +0000

In this article I want to mention four points of good story telling I’ve learned in the seminar. And mind you, if you follow them you can easily capture the total attention of many people quickly. I tried it the same evening on a group of strangers I assembled in front of a bar and the results were astonishing.

The Penultimate Truth about Philip K. Dick

sqpaa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:34:04 +0000

Philip K. Dick is considered by many to be one the world’s greatest science fiction writers ever; as a sufferer from mental illness himself he had the ability to turn his hallucinations about the universe into an extraordinary writing career. During his lifetime, Dick produced an astonishing amount of prize winning novels and short stories, which [...]

Book Review: The 80/20 Principle - The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less [Koch]

sqpaa — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:20:38 +0000

Now this book is 11 years old, but I decided to pick it up anyway and it’s one of the best books I’ve read for a long time. The basic recurring theme is that 80% of results are almost always created by 20% of the effort. 80% of revenue from 20% of customers, from 20% [...]

I Grift - An Overview of “Get Rich Quick”-Schemes

scr — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:12:52 +0000

One interesting scheme for example is the "Football Picks Scam". Basically the conartist will take a group of people, say 100, and tell 50 of them that one team will win, and the other 50 that the other team will win. The 50 "winners" are split again in two groups of 25. And so forth until a small group of people is left that has received a series of accurate tips on football matches. At some point the con artists starts demanding money for his services.

Stupidest Web Business Ideas

sqpaa — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:51:41 +0000

Some point at our neverending hunt for the online fortunes, and after several failed web business ideas, someone made a note if we had invented Facebook here, we’d said “that’s like the stupidest fucking idiotic idea ever“. Instead of the coolest and best ideas, we should list some of the most dorkful, fucking idiotic stupid [...]

Decrease Your Procrastination, Increase Your Productivity

yella — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:54:41 +0000

Internet procrastination became a real problem, to me and probably to many other people spending a lot of time in front of a computer. Dozens of online news site, social networks, and social news sites (not forget about email) are very popular and at the same time can be very addictive. I’m not a person [...]

Failed Web Business Ideas

sqpaa — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:35:19 +0000

Ok. I am the first one to admit it. We, the APMID people, are greedy and lazy. I mean really lazy and REALLY greedy and vanglorious too. We dangle on dreams of luxurious limos, we plan to be some day relaxing on a 12 million dollar yacht sipping Singapore Slings and snorting cocaine from playmates [...]