Author Archives: Aeoli Pera

(Note: This is a previous post with a couple of substantial improvements drawn from recent experience.) As a rule, you should not take training advice from experts. The reason is, unless they are specifically experts in training people at your … Continue reading →

Aeoli off topic but what were your key takeaways from what you learned during the pandemic. -LOADED That’s a great question. My primary takeaway is that people will still maintain a big, maladaptive pretense even when everybody knows it’s a … Continue reading →

H/T Patrick: The most interesting part was toward the beginning where he makes the social mobility argument. The obvious retort would be that merit is primarily heritable, so maybe meritocracy already happened and the people inheriting wealth are the most … Continue reading →

I’m just giving you permission to realize the implications you could already have guessed. Kinda late on this but I’ve been busy. The most obvious is that Iran is specifically provoking Israel to action, because they claimed the attack immediately. … Continue reading →

The most salient characteristic of normies, AKA women and other non-autistics, is their ability to sense their best interests in any social situation and frame the truth with the most serviceable connotations possible, and to believe what they’re saying with … Continue reading →

Now I’m curious: can you think of a functional reason for the absolute dominance of touchscreen UIs in the last ten years?As in a good reason for them to exist, other than the Star Trek phenotype. it’s the sort of … Continue reading →

Coders are so unbelievably bad at estimating the time and cost of a project that it deserves comment. This incapacity scales up so that the better a guy is at coding, the worse he is at telling you how long … Continue reading →

So there I was, surrounded by admirers and babes as I got into the power rack for my last set of squats. I was fatigued all to hell and scared out of my mind because this set was the closest … Continue reading →

All right, what else do we have today? Was going to toss out book recommendations (Shogun, Tai-Pan, and Noble House by James Clavell…which I know i’ve recommended before several times) in line with your “be mroe charismatic” goal, but they’re … Continue reading →

I can’t help but observe that PUA appears to be making a comeback.For the last 8 years it became uncool and receded into the background as something “everybody knows” but it’s low-status to talk about it.Since Trump. Is it? In … Continue reading →