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Your True Market Value
The New Orleans Voodo Tarot deck’s depiction of the Wheel of Fortune card is probably my favourite: A transdimensional market modelled on an ancien régime city market provides more useful mental models to comprehend and overcome the vicissitudes of corporeal existence. To me, the market is a better entry point into the meaning of the [...]
The Hamburg Conjecture: A 98:2 Magical Ratio
When my father came to visit recently for my birthday, the topic of his AIDS hospice work in the 1980s came up in conversation somehow. (To be clear, this wasn’t actually at the party because, you know… downer.) This was the terrifying dark ages of a genuinely horrible disease. A lot of medical professionals wouldn’t [...]
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 [...]
3 Steps To ‘Star Storm’ Proof Your Life
Chalking up some points in the spirit model column was the distinct sensation of certain “things” riding down from the Arctic into the UK during our pre-Christmas “Freeze”. To me they felt like ice demons (from here maybe?) being blown off course and making landfall right across the country when the UK’s oceanic defensive wall [...]
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 [...]
10 Universal Sigils To Bulk Out Your Shoal
There is a very specific reason for deploying multiple sigils at once: You’re playing tricks on your brain. It’s an extremely effective way of removing result lust. Take it from me, it’s much easier to detach from what each symbol means when there is more than one of them sitting in front of you. Shoaling [...]
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 [...]
Your One Perfect Day: How To Enchant For It
We like to joke about our dream existence where we live in a palace by the sea with scantily clad movie-stars and a private jet. Especially on bad days. But it’s not actually want we really want. Be honest. You’d get bored really quickly. Most people would. Magical folk -being more inclined toward seeking and [...]
The Dangers of Results-Based Magic
I’m calling this my Turin Revelation. It would be wonderful to call it my Turin Working but the only ‘work’ I did was a bit of Jasonian ‘Pillar and Spheres’ by the Po River immediately followed by three Camparis. Not exactly buying a country house at the end of Loch Ness. Also, Jasonian is totally [...]
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