• Prosperity

    Are You Calling Upon The Right Money Gods?

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    "Just give me your fucking email address, Herr Faustus. I'll take care of the rest."

    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...

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    Eat A Prosperous 2012

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    The busiest Being in the multiverse right now. The busiest, grumpiest Being.

    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...

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    Occupy Ancient China

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    In battle, use the ordinary to engage the enemy. Use the extraordinary to secure victory. … The flavors are only five in number, but their blends are so various that one cannot taste them all. In battle, there are only the ordinary and extraordinary forces, but their combinations are limitless. So… inevitably it came...

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    “Occupy” As A Phased Enchantment

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    My first cloak-and-dagger business meeting was in the foyer of a Michelin starred restaurant attached to a casino in Auckland. It was late and we could be sure we wouldn’t be kicked out if it got later because the casino is open twenty four hours. The only other people around were a few Japanese...

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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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    An Apocalypse Video Series

    by  •  • News, Prosperity • 3 Comments

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    So Google Plus is rivalling Twitter in the game of “who can bring me the most interesting things whenever my microscopic attention span needs a break.” As such, here are several videos that have come through both that relate to our ongoing plan to develop apocalypse management strategies. Watch them in order. This next...

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    We Are All In The Apocalypse Business Now: 10 Career Hacks

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Prosperity • 10 Comments

    He's off to the General Shoppe to buy more beads for his abacus

    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...

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    How Houses Are Like Cigarettes: You Will Not Be Right About The Small Things

    by  •  • Prosperity, Rants • 4 Comments

    "Trust me, I'm a mortgage broker. Have you seen the car I drove here in?"

    Here’s the biggest thing about advertising that I can relay with some considerable confidence… it works. Even on you. Even when you are sure it doesn’t. And spending trillions of dollars globally over three generations is a recipe for an extremely effective campaign. With that kind of money, what you say goes. In order...

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