Basics, Black Swan, Divination, Risk and Issue Management, The Shrine of St. Taleb
As part of the Risky Business course, I’m unearthing some very old posts from the blog that are relevant, both to those of you taking the course (still time to join!) and those who are just living in the world… If you’re going to do magic, practicing...
Agile New Year, Black Swan, The Shrine of St. Taleb
After the pre-holiday week of baking, cooking, wrapping, shopping, and cleaning, I probably shouldn’t have been surprised to be laid low by a bout of migraines just after Christmas (which I will heretofore refer to as malaise because it sounds better). It...
Divination, Sustain-ability, The Shrine of St. Taleb
I’ve never understood that people think astrology is a way of telling the future. It’s not. Astrology doesn’t tell you what’s going to happen. It doesn’t even tell you what will happen if you do x, y, or z. No, astrology tells you when...
Start Here, The Shrine of St. Taleb
Taleb isn’t always the easiest guy to understand. He’s fundamentally a philosopher who comments in parables and aphorisms, debates in mathematics, and his limited patience for the uninitiated. But when he writes more generally about the world, it’s...
Black Swan, The Shrine of St. Taleb
In case you aren’t familiar, a “butterfly” in CircleThrice lingo is a magical target with a lot of leverage for future change. It’s the butterfly you jostle in order to get the hurricane and the key concept of my Multiverse Reading (that...
