If you want to train a monkey to play flute on a pedestal, where should you start? How you answer this question says a lot about whether or not you will ever achieve your goals or make a change in your life. Find out why!

The human brain is terrible at numbers because we evolved during times where large numbers were not necessary for survival. We traveled in packs of dozens or hundreds for most of our ancestry and hunted and gathered for our food. It isn't until the last few thousand years that we started to see and understand the world in a Global scale and that amount of time is nothing in the eyes of humanity. Our globalization is still freshly born, barely taking its first breath yet.

Meanwhile, the world has its first trillionaire already... This episode talks about the disparity between Elon and literally everyone else on this planet, including the second richest person as well as how we as humans have done this to ourselves.

Poverty in the US: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html

US Billionaires: https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/how-many-billionaires-does-america-world-have-ubs/

More Debt than Money: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2025/09/17/global-debt-remains-above-235-of-world-gdp

If you are like me, the Zipper Merge can feel like a fairly theatrical moment in your day. People honking, yelling, swerving, cutting fellow drivers off and of course winners and losers. In this episode we talk about who is right and wrong in zipper merges according to data, police and civil engineers as well as what the whole experience can teach about how humans think.

ITRE Studying How Zipper Merges Reduce Congestion: https://itre.ncsu.edu/itre-studying-how-zipper-merges-reduce-congestion-at-sites-across-north-carolina/

The Zipper Merge: The Best Way to Merge in Traffic https://www.acg.aaa.com/connect/blogs/4c/auto/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving