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Opulence is a concept. I promise this record will give you value for money, beauty, and nutrition. As well as relief from suffering, social status and so on. All over the world.
Among other ingredients, this record has frequencies. I know what you’re thinking: “All music has frequencies.” The difference is, this one has higher frequencies than most. Which makes it feel strange. That’s intentional.
What this record does, and who it is for:
It invokes future nostalgia for prosperous individuals.
Why did I name it Opulence? Because success and prosperity is a recurring theme in my work since 2022’s Surplus album. Too much music out in the world is about saccharine ideas and negativity. Breakups, crime, sadness, misfortune... I can’t tolerate that stuff anymore.
There’s one lyric at the end of the last song on this album where I sing the word “opulence”. I won’t give it away here. You have to discover it.
When you listen to this record, you may notice that it’s not mastered loud. It sounds like I recorded it on my laptop because I did. I won’t apologize for that. The first track, Automatic Self, features GrimesAI on backup vocals. It was one of the first songs I recorded a few years ago, actually.
Which brings up the topic of AI-generated music. I chose to employ GrimesAI because it was innovative and new at the time Grimes made it available. Other than that, there is a sample I made using AI-generated sounds in the last track, Holy Cow. That’s the extent of AI use besides help with balancing the mixes and mastering.
If you think this is a lousy record, you should have heard it before I mixed and mastered it.
You can hear it wherever you stream your music, including Bandcamp.
I like you,
Sean Allen Fenn
ALT Sean Allen Fenn – Opulence album cover art
If your Microsoft Outlook is still down, why would you switch to Google Workspace? Just because I can get you a 10% discount off your first year?
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Own Nothing. Control Everything.
Ingvar Kamprad’s Rule for Keeping Control Without Keeping Shares
How rich was Kamprad? It depended on what counted as his.
January 31, 2018:
Bloomberg ranks Ingvar Kamprad “eighth-richest” worth $58.7 billion at his death. Forbes, 2015, says $3.5 billion. A $55 billion disagreement about one man. If both are defensible, why the discrepancy? Kamprad designed a stack of foundations in the Netherlands and Liechtenstein.
The discrepancy was principally about ownership versus control. Forbes excluded IKEA assets that Kamprad had irrevocably transferred to foundations. Bloomberg attributed the wider IKEA fortune to him because of his role as founder. It was Bloomberg's assessment of his control over the structure. Those are different definitions of counting his wealth. One counted personal ownership; the other counted the empire associated with his control.
A more precise description is two parallel ownership branches:
1. Retail operations. The Dutch Stichting INGKA Foundation owned INGKA Holding, which operated most IKEA stores. The foundation held the shares in the principal retail business.
2. Brand and franchise system. The Liechtenstein-based Interogo Foundation. This entity owned the Inter IKEA business. Which included the IKEA concept and intellectual property. The retail business paid franchise fees to use the IKEA brand and system; 3% of turnover.
Most founders struggle with the fantasy that control requires ownership. They keep every share and call it safety. They refuse succession and call it standards. Then one probate court takes it all apart. Not Ingvar.
ALT Methods of Prosperity 178: Ingvar Kamprad (conclusion)
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Discover how Ingvar Kamprad gained generational wealth without owning assets himself. And how he avoided taxes. prosperity.beehiiv.com/p/own…
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This could be accurate but we don’t know yet.
There is another possibility, Lulu, one that dominates my group chats.
Jensen is sleeping with all his customers. When they say the interactions were not unusual or unexpected, they mean he is a sex machine on a rampage, seducing thousands of AI hardware execs with a glance.
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Who Knew? Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, a Suspected Spy, and Washington’s Chip-Export Fight Today on Hidden Secrets Revealed – Live! ™ Scandal? The question is what the government knew about Megaspeed, and when. nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2ybopevQW…
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My latest memo assembles the critical questions one needs to consider to make intelligent, long-term investments in AI. While they can’t be answered definitively, investors mustn't let uncertainty result in inaction.
You can read it here: oaktreecapital.com/insights/…
Songs come to me in my dreams. This time it’s a heavy bass riff and female vocals.
I’ve been away from the local music scene for so long I don’t know any woman who can sing like this.
Who do you know that wants to sing?
The voice in my dream was a soulful, high register, female singer.
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Adobe’s moat is that they’re industry standard for professional designers. How long before industry standards go away?
It's wild Adobe flew everyone out and throwing a massive event when all of their tools are currently being open sourced and will probably be fully open sourced in the next couple months.
Seems like a waste of money as their moat is gone, but I've yet to see anything from what people are posting from Adobe Max that is a gamechanger.
Prove me wrong.
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