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    6 Ways To Boost Your Divergent Thinking Skills

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    Everyone. Must. Watch. Sherlock.

    Did you know that the most common word people used to describe themselves on LinkedIn last year was “creative”? Interesting. I seem to have missed that moment when the entire global economy turned into one big, bohemian silicon valley party where we all wear expensive trainers and work out of coffee shops attached to...

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    Why Aren’t You Fighting Dirty?

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Science • 9 Comments

    It was -18 in Hamburg this week. This is how I should have dressed.

    Whatever word you use for whatever it is you think we do… we’ve been called a lot of things before. Poisoner, abortionist, false-speaker, traitor, charlatan. At least two of our most celebrated professional ancestors have been spies for the Crown. Magic’s waters are murky and its sea lanes unguarded. So it strikes me that...

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    Are You Solving Wicked Problems With Magic?

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Life, Magic • 6 Comments

    Queen's Square on a Sunday morning

    Steam billows from my mouth as the pealing of the bells from the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England reverberates around the Georgian architecture of the square. The vibration makes it through my coat and gently rattles my ribcage -like speakers at a really polite concert. Sunday morning. It’s a ghost...

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    Volume Is The Best Magical Strategy

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Life, Magic • 6 Comments

    KË?ln Panorama

    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...

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    Your True Market Value

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Prosperity • 6 Comments

    That's MMTP in the middle of a Florentine market. She's a tiny, tiny person.

    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...

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