My husband and I did not realize until seven months after we named him that we three have a literary connection: Tom~Tom Sawyer Becca~Becky Thatcher Huck~Huck Finn

As strange as this may sound, the great scientists all agree that there are only 40 basic answers. Master the 40 answers and you’ll have an advantage in every situation for as long as you live. See the guy in the middle? That’s Mark Fox, the youngest chief engineer in the history of the space […]

The Only Hard Choice Responsibility limits your Freedom, and freedom is a good thing. So is responsibility wrong and evil? Sigh. The only hard choice in life is the choice between two good things. Justice and Mercy are at opposite ends of a teeter-totter. Honesty and Loyalty wrestle in your heart, do they not? Opportunity and […]

Here’s the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX4uJSj00Y and here’s the story behind it from the guy who wrote the poem: https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/ Thanks for the memories.

  Read the monograph by Tom Grimes on Tribalism

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Read the monograph by Tom Grimes on Tribalism

Read the origin of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle on Wikipedia Take the 2-Question Test whether you should or should NOT read Brad’s book

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Carlo Canevari  (Italian, 1922-1996) Modernist oil on wood panel. 7″ x 9.25″ Signed at lower right.

Email your photo to indy@wizardofads.com It can be a current photo or a photo from your scrapbook. Be sure to include your address and your dog’s name. We’re going to have a cat show in January, but we might offer a different reward. Suggestions? And one more thing: if you want to read the entire Destinae trilogy (of which Free the Beagle […]

The Becoming of America “Facts tell, stories sell,” is a principle known to every top-tier ad writer. Stories change people. Statistics give them something to argue about. People remember stories long after bullet-points are forgotten. The first American census was taken in 1790, fourteen years after the nation declared its independence from Britain; 3,893,635 persons […]

Did you realize that you’ve kept a construction crew working non-stop for the past 14 years through your gifts, donations, and tuition dollars? The campus you’ve built is very nearly finished! We’re currently in the final stretch. The House of the Lost Boys (from Peter Pan) will be our third student mansion, raising the number of […]

The Fang and Feather whiskey tasting room at The Crowded Barrel distillery, next door to the Welcome Center at Wizard Academy

In her essay “Why I Left My Big Fancy Tech Job and Wrote a Book,” Powell says she’s not simply lampooning the industry she’s worked in for years, but rather urging it to “end the self-delusion and either fess up to the reality we are creating, or live up to the vision we market to […]

“Like many bratty kids from Verdun, I went through a shoplifting phase when I was in my early teens. I’m not proud of this chapter in the story of my life, but, whatever, it is what it is. Anyhow, like many other social animals (such as wolves), my friends and I hunted in packs and […]

Jeffrey Eisenberg sent us that John Faithful Hamer quote on Tuesday, Oct 3. The wizard looked at me and said, “Indy, find out about this guy. I like him.” I googled Hamer’s name and found his self-description on his author’s page at Amazon.com. So I read it out loud to the wizard. “John Faithful Hamer is a […]

This marks the end of the Safe Zone of the rabbit hole. Click beyond here, you lose the right to debate or complain. I am Indy. I have spoken.

The Backstory Behind Today’s MondayMorningMemo My first 20 years were spent just trying to survive. I made enough money during my 13th summer to buy a small motorcycle. This gave me a way to get to my after-school job in a steel-fabrication shop at the edge of town. We built radiators to cool the petroleum […]

I Think I’ve Seen this Movie Before… Springtime and winter, Night follows day, New becomes old, and Economic correction follows a Booming economy. You know I’m an optimist, right? But I’m not a fatal optimist. My upbeat desire for a brighter tomorrow never blinds me to the reality of twilight. America tumbled into economic disaster in […]

Dewey Jenkins is one of those instructors who has learned from expert advice and example, but also from Consequences. The counter-intuitive principles he used to skyrocket his company to unprecedented success are the subject of a new book by Jonathan Bancroft, “Mr. Jenkins Told Me…”  Be looking for it after Christmas. – Indy Beagle

The Cervantes Project, established in 1995 by Director Eduardo Urbina, is the collaborative effort of a team of scholars and software designers to bring together bibliographic, textual, and visual information about the work of Cervantes into an interactive digital edition environment. The CoDHR is currently working with the Cervantes project team to support the migration of […]

To experience the unusual writing style of Gerald Murnane, read this short story. You will find it to be clear, cogent, confessional, and completely unstructured in regard to any sense of a developing plot. Murnane delivers the straightforward, unadorned honesty of Hemingway, but in much longer sentences.

Roy Hollister Williams V and his grandmother Photo by Roy H. Williams III

Three Teachers Seek the teacher who is a mentor to apprentices. She will give you expert advice and examples, then evaluate your ability to do as she has taught. Her name is Wisdom and you should always listen to her voice. But Wisdom’s teacher allowed young Wisdom to follow any path she chose! Wisdom learned […]

He said, “The Small Business Association says your ad budget should be 5 percent of sales. So that means every ad I run has to generate 20 times what I spend for it. Can you guarantee me a 20x return-on-investment if I buy what you’re selling?” On the face of it, that logic seemed reasonable […]

This is an extremely insightful explanation of a work of art by my favorite analyst and commentator

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mondaymorningradio/Indy_Beagle.mp3 The Academy reunion is going to be Nov. 3rd this year and it’s going to be fantastic! Here is Real Magic was written by Nate Staniforth, a fascinating man known worldwide. Nate will be with us, signing books, sharing his thoughts, and showing us things we’ll never be able to explain or forget. And we’re […]

Family Portrait by Michael Hill (born 1974) of Miami, Florida. Gouache over re-purposed antique photograph. Six skeletons; one with a bottle of whiskey in her lap, another one smoking. 11 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ in an old wood frame with ornate trim. NOTE FROM INDY: Wed. Sept 26 at 2:58 AM – This painting will […]

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), In the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa, 9¾ x 14¾ inches, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.  Sold for: $540,500 on April 18, 2018 at Christie’s in New York

Can You Come Out and Play? We want you to join us for 3 Days and 4 Nights of discussions, adventures, and surprises on the campus of Wizard Academy April 24-26 We’re building the sexiest, coolest, most photogenic gym in the world and we need 18 people to step up and become major donors to Wizard […]