by Richard Wilson | May 15, 2019 | Diffusion Theory, Fashion, Prohibition, Prohibition fashion, The Shrub
Obsidian MacAdoo is a poetess, and she wrote the terrifying yet compelling Green Cackles at Dawn. Diffusion of Innovations research informs us that far more than half of humanity is afraid of standing out. Uppermost in the minds of so many of us is the...
by Richard Wilson | May 15, 2019 | Boston, Prohibition
Massimo Volpedo, as we saw in the last episode, loves life and people on a breathtaking scale. Let us see what he has to say about wine. The setup: It’s a bitter cold Boston evening in January, 1930. Pinky DeVroom, his best pal Unctual Natchez, Elfred Norcross...
by Richard Wilson | May 15, 2019 | Bespoke capitalism, Prohibition, The Shrub
Somewhere in all his writings Seth Godin asserted that businesses–and I assume he meant local, bespoke, non-corporate ones–have only two pathways to success: (1) Delight people, and (2) Solve their problems. The more interesting the problem, the better. In...
by Richard Wilson | May 15, 2019 | Bespoke capitalism, Capitalism, Prohibition
Time now to turn from the realm of industrialists and corporate capitalism to the free market’s other branch, which doesn’t seem to have a name but which I shall call the bespoke branch of capitalism. This is an interesting question. Is capitalism one big...
