Welcome to the blog for season two of BlankScreen. In Episode One, we are going to start out with a concept that has been made popular by Naval Ravikant. His concept is titled, “Money, status, and wealth.” Money is a social credit. Everyone just agrees it has a value. We assign that value to things…
In Episode Thirteen, we talk about exploring versus exploiting. Brian Christian and Tom Griffis wrote the book “Algorithms to Live By.” This is a cool concept I pulled from that book. The concept is explore versus exploit, which they presented it as if you have a grandma, and every Friday, she goes down to bingo,…
In Episode Twelve, we discuss blind spots. I can prove to people visually that they have blind spots. It is where the optic nerve sits on the back of your eye, an area where you don’t have any light receptors. Your brain naturally fills in that blind spot with similar colors and shapes to what…
In Episode Eleven, we talk about the Eisenhower matrix. Imagine a square being split into four quadrants, and at the top of the square is the word important. At the bottom of the square are the words not important. On the left of the square are the word not urgent, and in the right side…
In episode ten, we discuss the concept of a flow state. There is an Italian psychologist who came up with the concept of flow state, which is when our skill level matches the difficulty of a task. We might find ourselves in a flow state if we have a very high skill level for a…
In Episode Nine, I remind you to call your mom. That is it. In this episode, we drew a phone in the video and literally the only thing we said to do is call your mom. Usually, these posts are a two minute read. Take the next minute and a half to give your mom…
In Episode Eight, we’re making a very clear distinction when it comes to taking versus receiving. Taking is going out into your environment, looking for something to satisfy an expectation that we have, and then taking that thing, with very little concern for the byproduct of our actions. The problem is that humans are so…
In Episode Seven, we discuss CION. What does that stand for? What does it look like? Well, imagine a bullseye with a C in the center. Those are the things that you can control. The next ring out has an I on it. These are the things you can influence. The next ring around that…
In Episode Six, we discuss the 1% rule. Sir David Brailsford was once hired to coach an abysmal cycling team from Great Britain. Instead of trying to fix everything at once, he picked out very specific things to improve by 1%; the fabric of the uniforms, the gear greasing, the weight of the bike, the…
In Episode Five, we talk through a three-step recipe. I want to make it clear, just like all the recipe cards in my house that have never been cooked, when it comes to food, this recipe will not work if you do not actually follow and implement the process. The overall recipe looks like this….