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Volume Is The Best Magical Strategy
In August I came within a single day of being fired. If the CEO hadn’t been on holiday in Tuscany at the time I probably would have been out the door. (His first question to my boss when he came back to Hamburg was “why is Gordon still working for the company?”) And part of [...]
Updating Various Rants
A few things have come down the wires of late that speak to some of my pet rants. So here are a few weekend links to consume with your coffee. A rant-based link roundup. Why not? Let’s begin with my longest running whisky rant: That accidental ingestion of hallucinogens is the most likely trigger for [...]
We Are All In The Apocalypse Business Now: 10 Career Hacks
A lot of the time, you aren’t actually in the business that you think you are. There is Seth Godin’s famous analogy of how many railroad companies got into the airline business. Precisely none. They made the mistake of thinking they were in the “trains and track” business rather than the transport business. Because the [...]
Be Honest About What Your Head Needs
One of the more interesting things that struck me about re-reading the Simonomicon oeuvre late last year was a throwaway comment relating to the first gate (of the moon). The gate of the moon -like Yesod- is the first one the seeker has to pass through. And the point Simon made was that most seekers [...]
The Omnivorous Magician: Success Magic Requires Both Hunting And Gathering
In one of my first ever sales jobs, my boss told me there are two types of sales people: hunters and farmers. Hunters went out and got new business -big flashy deals- while farmers got under the skin of existing clients and extracted year-on-year growth from their spend. Both have different probability spreads and both [...]
How To Enchant By A Thousand Paper Cuts
It looks like a few of my sigils may be coming down off the mirror soon as the -possibly semi self-inflicted- star storm abates and gives me my first clear view of what this new adventure could look like. What. A. Ride. These last two months are what we can call the Proof of Concept [...]
5 Shoaling Examples To Improve Your Magical Results
Adama (senior) says a number of times during Battlestar Galactica “sometimes you gotta roll the hard six.” Most of the time, however, you don’t. Most of the time, the 5/6 chance will do just fine. Because unless your race is battling for survival against an unlimited supply of killer robots you were foolish enough to [...]
Upgrade Yourself in 2011: Eleven Hacks For The New Year
Life hacking is great and all, but too often it boils down to having a tidy desk and making lots of lists. Practical magic is like life hacking except that you’re cheating. Which is fine. You worked for that cheat. Note that you don’t have to deploy actual spell casting for it to be a [...]
Austin Spare Exhibition: Do You Want To Be Happy Or Interesting?
It is possible that I am giving you the impression that my family is some kind of mini-Antipodean-Illuminati but my brother has just spent the last four days in the hallway of a hospital in rural Malaysia, dropping in and out of consciousness from a bout of severe meningitis. His insurance company has finally transferred [...]
The Financial Book Game
Perhaps I should elaborate on my comment on Jason’s post about the 4HWW. Because I suspect we’re talking across purposes here. In fact, I know we are. I have time for Tim. Let me say that. But he’s not the first person I would recommend when it comes to personal wealth creation. There are other [...]
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