Philosophy

Read essays and videos about mindset, personal responsibility, freedom, persistence and the habits Dave associates with constructive thinking.

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

I wrote previously on the subject of “Confirmation Bias”. Sometimes it is difficult to discover the answer to a technical problem because the person bringing you the problem has a hitch, assumption, or faulty logic step in their diagnostic process. Often...

THE GREEN THING

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in...

Perspective

    What if the Mayan calendar ends in 5105 and we’ve just been holding it upside down? Wiki Link: Mayan Calendar Wiki NASA Link: NASA- Beginning or End of the World? Why not let Jesse Ventura Chime In? This is/was a fun show....

Two Days Each Year I Avoid Spending Money

I enjoy the time spent with family on Thanskgiving and Christmas day. It’s a gathering of my direct family, uncles, aunts, cousins, spouses and so forth. It’s a blessing in life to have family to enjoy. I’ve never required anybody to work on these...

Diagnosing Confirmation Bias

Humans are built to want answers. We seek to eliminate all uncertainties. Giant institutions are constructed and survive on our desire to know. To comfort ourselves, when diagnosing a problem we often look at one or two points of evidence and decide the...