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...
Basics, Black Swan, Divination, The Shrine of St. Taleb
This got long, so settle in… If you’re going to do magic, practicing some kind of divination is important for getting good results. Divination isn’t a simple topic. There are many techniques and many different things it can be used for. So,...