Memos from the Head Office: Channeling the Muse in Business and in Life

Maybe You Don't Have to Figure It All Out Yourself

A currency trader receives a million-dollar algorithm as a “mental download.” A financial advisor has ominous dreams three nights in a row, then warns her clients to cash out. Three days later markets plummet as COVID hits. Two years into a bogus lawsuit, a CEO chooses to forgive. His attorney calls four minutes later-case settled. These ideas did not come from within these people, but from a power outside themselves-the Muse.

“God's got m...