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Are You Calling Upon The Right Money Gods?
Even accounting for wars and famine and such our understanding of wealth has been reasonably stable since the development of agriculture. It wasn’t ever really all that mysterious. There were a small number of haves and then the rest of us are the have-nots. Wealth -or other system capacity- was accumulated in a more or [...]
Eat A Prosperous 2012
Just having a look at Twitter, it seems we all haven’t clearly eaten enough over the last two weeks. So here are some food-based fortune suggestions to ring in a prosperous 2012! First, two points: One… a confession. I fucking hate New Years. Yes, that is as clichéd and obvious as saying “I really like [...]
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 [...]
Apocalypse Timeshares: Radical Strategies From Inside The OAT
Last night was spent catching up with a journalist friend who is rather involved in the whole UKUncut movement. We were joking about how neither of us expected the End of Days to be quite so entertaining. Now, that’s being a bit glib but there is no avoiding the terrifying dark side of those OAT [...]
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 [...]
The Limits Of Visualisation: Why You Still Need Magic
Have you ever been in a conversation that has turned to magic and you have found yourself talking about it in terms of positive visualisation and other such toothless terms? It only tends to happen when you’re -for instance- chatting with the boss’s wife and the conversation accidentally strays too close to home so that [...]
6 Magical Tips For Better New Years Resolutions
You know why New Years resolutions fail? Because they are made while stubbing out a cigarette in what you really hope is a pile of your own vomit seeing as you just fell in it while trying to retrieve your phone from the toilet in order to check how long it is till midnight. (“Five [...]
All Of This Has Happened Before: The Power Of The Reboot
You don’t need to get very occult to understand why certain situations or experiences repeat throughout our lives. It’s simple, clumsy psychology. We spent the weekend in the South West so we could go to the Bath Christmas Markets, something we did in 2008 within a few months of arriving in the UK. Because I [...]
How Often Do You Innovate?
Part of my radio silence looks suspiciously Mercurial. And maybe it is. Because I am pretty sure these things are: Dreadful ad campaign results. (Do NOT run test campaigns when Mercury is retrograde.) The complete inability to get a hold of clients and get them to sign their contracts. (Mercury retrograde, mixed with a little [...]
7 Steps To Your Own Risk Adventure
A dear school friend accompanied me on my recent trip to Nottingham. Through a series of ‘random’ coincidences, he has ended up as the general manager of a large event construction business within three years of graduating from university. On the other side of the world. Over five to six hundred beers in the shadow [...]
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