Search Results: art of the deal

In Praise of Bitcoin

By Ben Hunt | April 28, 2021 | 62 Comments
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…starts with locating the value of Bitcoin in its elegant art and its ability (like all elegant art) to inspire great things away from the art itself. Yes, great things…

Deals Are My Art Form

By Rusty Guinn | November 26, 2018 | 2 Comments
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point?” The Art of the Deal, by Donald Trump with Tony Schwartz (1987) The disparate treatment of institutional allocation to private equity and hedge funds has gotten a lot of…

Mailbag: Life in Trumpland

By Ben Hunt | March 6, 2017 | 0 Comments
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“blood alone turns the wheels of history” but is offended by my tone in an email. You’re delusional. You need to read, “The Art Of The Deal,” and “The Art

The Welding Shut of the American Mind

By Ben Hunt | September 21, 2020 | 32 Comments
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…itself (particularly the Hollywood that is represented through vehicles like the Academy Awards) is that they are creating art. And not just any art, but good art. And not just…

A Freaky Circle

By Rusty Guinn | March 9, 2021 | 3 Comments
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…being party to any of the ‘partnership’ discussions. And yet, if I were a limited partner in one of the funds managed by the advisors in question, I would probably…

How To Live Forever: The Future Is Shaped By The Art We Make

By Scott Bradlee | August 8, 2023 | 10 Comments
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…reason we have musicians, artists, actors, filmmakers, and poets. That is the reason we have art. While science can tell us what it is to be human, only art can…

The Contentapocalypse is Coming

By Scott Bradlee | September 30, 2024 | 9 Comments
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…to an entire label department, known as Artists & Repertoire, or “A&R.” A&R  worked . In its heyday, the process of scouting and carefully developing talent turned hundreds of artists…

Here We Go Again

By Ben Hunt | July 2, 2019 | 1 Comment
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…very good meeting. He wants to make a deal. I want to make a deal. Very big deal, probably, I guess you’d say the largest deal ever made of any kind, not…

Well, I’m Not AI (As A Strategy): WInAaaS!

By Matt Zeigler | September 30, 2024 | 0 Comments
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art. Humans are still making art too, but we’re increasingly starting to yell about how our art is not AI art and we think we can prove it. Enter, “Well, I’m…

25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life

By Luke Burgis | December 13, 2021 | 10 Comments
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…point that art is not what is ‘mimetic’—art doesn’t imitate life. Art is anti-mimetic, in fact. It’s we humans that are the mimetic ones. We imitate art. In his 1891…

The Weekend Zeitgeist (3.31 – 4.6.2019)

By Rusty Guinn | April 6, 2019 | 3 Comments
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…leave finance to cover the last week or so in other shifting parts of the Zeitgeist – namely, politics and culture. It’s not a list of best articles or articles…

The Gospel According to South Park

By Jeremy Radcliffe | July 30, 2025 | 3 Comments
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…and Mr. Mackey had functioned like one of those downloads Neo gets in The Matrix; except that instead of instantly learning martial arts, my son had instantly become culturally literate….

The Weekend Zeitgeist – 3.30.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 30, 2019 | 9 Comments
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…leave finance to cover the last week or so in other shifting parts of the Zeitgeist – namely, politics and culture. It’s not a list of best articles or articles…

Men of God in the City of Man, Part 4: Epimemetics

By Rusty Guinn | July 7, 2023 | 158 Comments
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or “felt led” or something that “God put on my heart” or that “the Holy Spirit is showing me.” The former was a non-starter, the latter formulations very much part

The Arborist

By Ben Hunt | August 10, 2017 | 1 Comment
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…a vision in your head of what Treeness means in this particular place and this particular plant, and then bending nature to fit that vision. It’s this imposition of human…

The Acrobat and the Fly

By Rusty Guinn | June 1, 2018 | 0 Comments
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…some unique moral failing. Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. But in the end, neither the artist’s cannibalism nor the poet’s thievery invalidate their art. You…

Things Fall Apart (Part 4)

By Ben Hunt | November 19, 2018 | 17 Comments
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Download a PDF of Things Fall Apart (Part 4) Listen to an audio recording of Things Fall Apart (Part 4) Also available at: Things Fall Apart Part 1 Part 2 Part 3…

Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 3: The Luther Protocol

By Ben Hunt | March 24, 2022 | 74 Comments
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PDF download (subscribers only): Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 3: The Luther Protocol Narrative and Metaverse Part 1: The Living Word Part 2: Gain of Function Part 3: The Luther Protocol Part 4:…

We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

By Ben Hunt | July 15, 2019 | 0 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some…

You Don’t Have to Dance Every Dance

By Ben Hunt | December 11, 2018 | 5 Comments
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deal being struck anytime soon and the “likelihood” that the deal will favor the US or China. So, Kevin, what should we do in Ukraine? Let me be really clear…