Archive for March, 2008

The Compliance Recipe, Part 2: Believable Authority and Earn-Reward

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Continuing from this post.
The 3 steps to building compliance, as mentioned before, are:

Believable Authority
Earn-Reward Method
Intermittent Rewards

To get compliance, you first need to establish believable authority. There are many ways to do this, but the easiest way is to [...]

The Compliance Recipe, Part 1: Compartmentalized Thinking

One of the things I like to encourage people to do when analyzing human nature is to avoid compartmentalizing their insights. To compartmentalize an insight means that you have learned a specific insight but are only able to understand and apply it in the original context in which it was taught to you.
For example, [...]

Open Feedback Thread

I wanted to do something a little different today.  First, this week is pretty busy so I won’t be able to post as often as I’d like.  But also, I figure it gives me a good opportunity to satisfy my curiosity.
I track visitors to this site, and I get a fair amount.  Many people find [...]

Know Your Worth - The Call Girl Edition

[This is the first in my attempt to write shorter posts for you lazy bastards.] 
Ever since Governor Eliot Spitzer’s scandals, newspapers everywhere are doing profiles on call girls left and right. Some are about individual call girls, others are about the overall call girl industry, but the one conclusion many of these stories have in [...]

Profiles in Charisma: Mok

I was trolling Youtube while bored recently, and on a whim I searched for clips from a movie from my youth called Rock & Rule (2-Disc Collector’s Edition). I was specifically hoping to find this particular song from the movie called “My Name is Mok” by Lou Reed. And I was ecstatic to actually find [...]