# vulgar (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover vulgar. Page: Feed: --- ## [Word of the week - poiesis](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-poiesis) _2026-08-17 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ This one comes off the heels of the last word of the week. ## [The esophagus](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/the-esophagus) _2026-08-10 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ What is it? The esophagus is a muscular tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach. It’s hollow - the interior is called the lumen. The interior layers of the tube are mucosal (squamous epithelium) and submucosal connective tissue layers. The outer layers of the tube are layers of muscle fibers and fibrous tissue. ## [Word of the week - hematopoiesis](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-hematopoiesis) _2026-08-03 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ This week’s word includes a prefix that can be shortened to another two prefixes used commonly to mean the same thing. ## [How Boards Can Create Value Strategically](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/k63ylhhxln978kd4srbks8e5jnlp2w) _2026-07-28 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ I just came across this excellent summary of the DLMA framework by Managing Director of Better Boards Australasia, Raph Goldworthy. For those new to DLMA, Grant Thornton UK sums it up this way: It is a simple yet powerful tool which provides a framework with which to evaluate how well an organisation is performing regarding the balance of skills, understanding of roles and responsibilities between… ## [The Vulgar Tongue #61](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/the-vulgar-tongue-61) _2026-07-27 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ Rib ## [The Vulgar Tongue Gets a Book](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/the-vulgar-tongue-gets-a-book) _2026-07-20 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ The book is available on Kindle and is free to read on Kindle Unlimited ## [Word of the week - otomy](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-otomy) _2026-07-20 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ This may seem like I’m repeating myself, but I’m not. ## [Types of ostomies](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/types-of-ostomies) _2026-07-13 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ What is it? ## [Word of the week - ostomy](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-ostomy) _2026-07-06 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ This week’s word has both a general medical meaning and a colloquial meaning that has made it more specific. ## [The Vulgar Tongue #60](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/the-vulgar-tongue-60) _2026-06-29 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ Muzzle ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fGSN960GzK9k) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Word of the week - ectomy](https://grosshumanbody.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-ectomy) _2026-06-22 · Alicia M Prater · Gross Human Body_ This is a suffix - meaning that it appears at the end of words. ## [MC 28 - A Vulgar Theory of Value](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/n2fcf8n363d9wyzmtlm66cf6s2ptwg) _2026-01-22 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ “he DID say anus?” murmured someone to my right. Admittedly, anus is not a word typically associated with corporate governance. Obvious jokes aside, what do butt holes have to do with corporations and the work of boards? But, on a pleasant October day overlooking London’s Finsbury Circus, t he theory proposed by my fellow Australian Graham Logan , that all that was going on in the city below owed… ## [MC 27: The Friedman Paradox - We Win Some, We Lose More](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/bw86mmt3hp4azt7zcmtknypr9z6t6z) _2025-10-21 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ If there’s a reality that defies economic sense it’s this: if profits are soaring, stock markets are hitting records and global GDP has doubled in the last two decades why is it that social welfare and genuine sustainability, when measured by the accessibility and availability of objectively useful things like, clean air, fertile soil and fresh water, are in decline. Economists have promised for… ## [MC 26: Markets Abhor a Gradient - Why Useful but Unused Things Want to Flow To Where They're Useful and Used](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/t7ggbmnjypjypss3jtcjc2z47l4a6c) _2025-09-04 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ A vulgar market is the real and visceral market. An ignoble co-ordination device in which producers exchange their unwanted goods, services and income based on the utility of an unmistakable gamble of excrement. A type of calculated bet premised on the idea of everyone producing things that they can’t use and don’t want for the purpose of wagering that another producer has produced something they… ## [MC 25: The Art of the Deuce or Why We Sell What We Sell](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/2le2hr8s6e7t7acstjygw85cdwksyf) _2025-08-28 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that the “propensity to truck, barter, and exchange” was inherent in human nature. But in the following passage, Jean Baptiste Say offers a more viceral explanation for trade. The urge to sell being less about human nature and perhaps more about the call of nature. “When the producer has put the finishing hand to his product, he is most anxious to sell… ## [MC 24: A Vulgar Solution to the Water Diamond Paradox](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/3t3lr7bbx9zerw76d3ydhyt6dtpfbc) _2025-08-26 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations and Adam Smith’s water-diamond paradox. Considered among the most foundational puzzles in economics, no theory of value can pass into history without offering up a solution. Smith described the paradox as follows: “ Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarcely anything; scarcely anything can be had in exchange for it. A… ## [MC 23: The Tale of the Herd and the Dung Beetles](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/w7ngz8pn8w3597cw9jws4jmlhs2pz4) _2025-08-14 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ “But surely you’re mistaken” smiled Hermes. With promethean hubris, the mischievous god announced that he, being smarter than their father, could do much better. “I wager, I could squeeze out even more efficiency” he winked. “I’m the god of finance you know. Trust me. I know exactly what I’m doing.” With that, and loving a good poo joke, he transformed the herd so that from then on the horses… ## [Where Does Good Governance End and Exceptional Directorship Begin?](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/m885ejm95r2e3b7wk6hw7y4h37k49d-9wahg) _2025-04-17 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ Over 60 years has passed since the word “corporate governance” entered the boardroom. In that time much has changed for company directors. But not the language. Company directors still have only word to describe what they do. Leaving boards defined by a term that ignores the binary nature of their role and responsibility. ## [The Board-Management Matrix - Sleeping Not Dead](https://ondirectorship.com/ondirectorship/rpg4aaxtmc38m7zz66za2rh54n87cd-p4bds) _2025-04-07 · peter tunjic · Essays and Observation - The Vulgar Economist_ Conceived in 2012, my first 2x2 matrix was designed to visualise the work of any board and management team based on two opposing decision criteria - value creation and value protection. Incorporating the tension between leading and managing and identifying the same tension within the boardroom - directing and governing. Value creation was something that was more spoken than practiced by directors.…