Mark talks about how he has used duct tape to create positive changes in big organizations during a session of The American Small Business Institute. $40 a month gets you at least one new video from an accomplished consultant each week and you’ll be keeping Wizard Academy alive and healthy, too!

Dear Indy, You’re coming to Russia soon, so I thought I should tell you a few things about the place. St Petersburg is beautiful, on many levels. There’s the city centre – the whole of it a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When I first came here as a boy in 1994, it was a mess. […]

Manley doesn’t know anything about this yet, but I think his idea would make a nice fund-raiser for the Academy in May or June. $5,000 per couple would include the hotel room for 3 nights and all the meals and other stuff we would do together. My plan is to recruit Manley and his wife, Dana, to […]

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Fame and Fortune are a Magnet All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey. I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s day. I’d be safe and warm if I was in L.A. California dreaming on such a winter’s day. Got onboard a westbound seven-forty-seven. Didn’t think before deciding what to do. All […]

Sold at Christie’s in Paris on Nov. 28, 2012 for $280,000. Here’s what Christie’s Auction House had to say about the painting: “Painted around 1941-42, Don Quixote is one of a series of paintings by Picabia – based on the aesthetics of the poster – with imagery directly inspired by popular iconography. As in most […]

Every person faces their own windmill of Quixote. Here’s how painter Alonso Vargas sees his.

I’m starting a new tribe – Dulcinea’s Darlings – and I want you to be in it. Can you find 10 bucks a month? I asked the wizard to let me give a limited edition of this 16 x 16 painting to all my friends because it’s my personal favorite from his collection of more than 1,000 original works of art revealing different aspects of […]

Speaking of Magenta…

Michalopoulos has a very cool website. You should check it out. “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Francis Bacon

Michalopoulos has a very cool website. You should check it out.

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I’m starting a new tribe – Dulcinea’s Darlings – and I want you to be in it. Can you find 10 bucks a month? I asked the wizard if he would let me give a limited edition print of this 16 x 16 painting to all my friends because it’s my personal favorite from his collection of more than 1,000 original […]

Portals and the 12 Languages of the Mind – Feb. 3-4. 2016 How to Market to Millennials and Their Parents – Feb. 10-11 Reputation Tool Chest with Dean Rotbart – Feb. 16-17 The Magical Worlds Communications Workshop – March 1-3 The Reality of Created Diamonds – March 8, 2016  

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The wizard and the princess knew it was a special painting, but they weren’t sure exactly why. You know the wizard. He bought it on gut-instinct. It turns out to be a 150+ year-old portrait of Romanov Princess Elizabeth Esperovna Belosselsky-Belosenky. She was 23 at the time. She later married the Russian Prince Peter Troubetskoy. As the great Tom Grimes […]

Be sure to watch the video. Disco is hilarious. The funniest part of all is he wasn’t trying to be funny. – Indy

 

If your goal is to add major-league video to your web presence without adding $100,000/yr to your payroll, you’ll definitely want to watch this video of the wizard’s son, Roy H. Williams IV. (Yep, the wizard is actually “Roy the third.” When I’m angry I call him “Roy the turd.”) The wizard and the princess never […]

 

Andrew Backus – Geology – and the notes on my telephone.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mondaymorningradio/Stratfor_Sim_Tack.mp3  COMING UP Feb 16-17 at WIZARD ACADEMY:  Dean Rotbart’s Reputation Tool Chest Workshop: Constructing An Unparalleled Online Reputation for You or Your Business No one builds a luxury home with just a hammer. Likewise, using a single tool – or even a few basic tools – to construct a powerful online reputation is a fool’s errand. In […]

Those of you that have read Destinae – the wizard’s Free the Beagle trilogy – will recall that a lawyer named Intellect is accompanied on his journey by a female beagle named Intuition. I’ve occasionally heard the wizard tell people that I, the obviously male Indy Beagle, represent the spirit of reckless adventure. Represent? Represent? I don’t […]

Next week’s Monday Morning Memo is called “What Watson Said” and the wizard quotes me in it! So you’ll want to get up really early next Monday so you can read it, right? I’ll see you then. Indy

What Watson Said Watson is the mega-powerful learning computer created by IBM. A brief interaction between IBM’s Watson and singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has gathered more than 3 and a half million YouTube views in just 90 days. ESTABLISHING SHOT: [Dylan walks into the frame carrying a guitar.] WATSON: Bob Dylan, to improve my language skills. […]

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What follows below was sent to us this week by one of the cognoscenti. I decided to share it because I already made fun of the wizard’s obsession with Don Quixote and I figured he’d be less mad at me if I made fun of some other people, too. In the interest of fair play, if you’re […]

Is it possible to live in this digital age and NOT lose our love of stories and play-acting and silliness? Consider for a moment the character of Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. Consider Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.  “Downey, like Johnny Depp, has found a way of remaining hip […]

“Columbus’s real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. It would be hard to name any figure in history who has achieved more lasting […]

Jefferson Eisenberg sent this because he knows I dislike Wal-Mart (because of how poorly they treat their employees.) Follow this link to read the whole story by Hiroku Tabuchi in the New York Times or Google “It’s Amazon and Also-Rans in Retailers’ Race for Online Sales” published Dec. 30, 2015.

I said to the wizard, “Have you ever heard the saying, ‘Study one religion, and it will take a lifetime. Study two religions, and you’ll be done by lunch?’” He said, “Sure, Indy. And if you want to study the big ones, TED can explain all 5 in just 11 minutes.” I said, “Sweeeet.”

NOTE: The wizard often asks me if he can post something in the rabbit hole. Sometimes I say yes. Sometimes I say no. This time I told him, “After Christmas.”  He wrote the following on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 2015, the day after Black Friday. I didn’t let him post it until now because I knew it […]

It is true that two men can lift a bigger stone than one man. A group can build automobiles quicker and better than one man, and bread from a huge factory is cheaper and more uniform. When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is […]

“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. […]

“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. […]

 

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