Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
One of Elon Musk’s brilliant true believers was fired about a month ago. Did he make a big mistake? Did he blow up a rocket? Was he the designer of Elon’s Cybertruck? Was he the primary point of contact between Elon and President Trump? Why was he fired? Sulaiman Ghori was fired because he was…
This video focuses on the great similarities between the two brothers, but politics divides and conquers their families. Interestingly, these two brothers think and behave similarly. They have similar values and responses to political and economic events. However, since the choices in American politics are largely binary, it is easy for two very similar brothers…
I recently experienced one of those prescription increases that makes us take notice. One of my drugs increased 200% from December 2025 to January 2026. What caused this? It didn’t take long to discover that my PBM changed. PBM is not a medical condition; it is a financial middleman called a pharmacy benefit manager. So,…
This short video is the last in a series about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians and others. This video summarizes the many mind games we all play on others and ourselves. While these games are hardwired into our brains, they can become debilitating and ruinous if we, individually…
The mind games we all play that distort reality are almost limitless. While many of the most prominent mind games have been discussed in previous videos, this one contains a short list of the minor games. These deceptive games that we play on others and ourselves are not mutually exclusive. Most reinforce one or several…
There is an interesting parallel between the Achilles Heels of Artificial Intelligence and Democracy. Both can suffer from “bad data.” Since Large Language Models depend on recursively feeding “refined” data back into their models, there is a risk of feeding inaccurate or flawed data into subsequent iterations, thereby losing valuable information. There is a similar…
This video explores how easy it is for people to act in roles and follow scripts. This is an easy way for a person’s perception of the world to be shaped. An actor in a drama can play a villain in a movie but be the nicest person in real life. The opposite can also…
This video outlines how humans compartmentalize their beliefs and actions. Examples of compartmentalization are everywhere. Reports often reveal “honest” individuals engaged in dishonest actions. This is more than simple duplicity or hypocrisy by thoroughly dishonest people. A person could be raised never to tell a lie to his mother, but as a grown-up, he learned…
OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT, has all the hallmarks of a classic Silicon Valley flameout. Silicon Valley history is littered with the corpses of well-funded, but underproducing startups. I have been testing and using several AI services over the last three years, and I was very impressed with ChatGPT in the beginning. However, recently…
This short video is the sixth in a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false…