Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I had a conversation on Monday with a Goldman Sachs senior banker -he’s still working from home. Goldman brought back to office this week about 10% of employees nationwide. These are the critical infrastructure people. He is lucky to keep his job, and that’s only because he’s been at it …
I wrote on this website about bosses, good and bad, left and right, and gave you more insights on this subject than any other single resource on the planet. Monday June 15th, The WSJ had an article “Negotiating that Raise or Promotion” (Tessa West) I will comment on today. Unless …
Perhaps it is time and regular folk and rich -as in flithy rich- agree on something. That something is the quarantine doesn’t work. (we knew that from the beginning, BTW). As the economy is slowly and surreptitiosly reopening, we heard that Renaisance Technologies RENTCH has lost 20% this year (article …
Some of you may know we got a big hurdle ahead: the film project I want to get done. While I have no idea when this is going to get done, I got a bare-bones screenplay idea ready. The obvious question is, who’s going to do it. The economy in …
I will elaborate on the following post I did today on social media: “The curse of wealth and comfort comes with a genetic quality decline. We often see the correction attempt in the next generation (their wealthy offspring trying to mate with poor people). The curse of wealth -most often… …
The choice for courses during this quarantine is large; precisely why we started the Free Resources for the Free Mind series last year. This is your 8th Free Resources post list (from Jonas): Global Procurement and Sourcing Specialization through Coursera from Rutgers University, N.Y. From the Curriculum: “Strategic Sourcing, then …
This article is going to draw a lot of criticism I expect, from the boatload of haters but also from some bona-fide fans. Most people expect parenthood to be the defining point in the lives. What’s there not to enjoy: raising and educating a child, watching him/her grow into adulthood, …
Since I became more of a household name, a few folks have been asking if I did any phone consultations. Well now, after two months of quarantine and two dozen emails requesting it, I finally said yes. A phone consultation with me can be booked from anywhere in the world …
Fully supporting LGBT and my forward-looking statement of the population sexual dynamics I wanted you to know that here we are fully supportive of the LGBT Community and inclusive of all: non-binary and X-gender. Perhaps one of the most notable trends seen in the last decade is the increase in …
So this happened, many, many years ago. I was staying at a rundown cheap hotel, and a guy and a girl -a good-looking girl- came in. A run-down hotel located in a prime spot, not in a poor city. As you used to have, crap hotel sitting next to luxury …
