Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
NYT article ” How Floyd Mayweather Helped Two Young Guys From Miami Get Rich” by Nathaniel Popper makes you wonder why these unregistered securities offerings even exist as they do and are nothing but smokescreens. Boxer Floyd Mayweather endorsed an ICO offering of a company named Centra that raised $30 …
Watch me answer a reader question at the end of this post: why there’s no such thing as female logic, why we don’t need more women working on Wall Street. This is good. And since we’re talking about Taleb today, ask yourself: How antifragile are You ? I’m selectively posting …
A reader asked me to hash over the concept of Artificial Intelligence and weight in on the “rise of the machines.” As you know, the concept of AI dominance is controversial, with Elon Musk warning about it while people like Mark Zuckerberg saying Elon’s fearmongering is baseless and we have …
I know this post will be bookmarked by men in positions of power and by those who hold high office. I will try to explain what happens when women throw themselves at men of wealth and influence. I will go beyond the Harvey Weinstein story that captivated the public this… …
Someone here asked me to comment on Nassim Taleb’s aphorisms found in his Bed of Procustes book. I believe there are 212 of them, huge work considering that we are advised to ponder on no more than four of them a day. They also follow a personal logic, so some …
In his Fortune Oct. 1st. ’17 article “Resisting activists, and winning”, Ryan Derousseau argues shareholders “fare better” when they fend of activists demands, that is, when management says no. In the article, there’s a run down of the Nelson Peltz (Trian Fund Management) campaign at P&G. Most of you working …
Watch me answer a question from a young man at the end of this post. Enjoy ! Beyoncé says that “our mistakes make us who we are.” In the movie “The Last Words” (2017) Harriet says: “You don’t make mistakes. Mistakes make you.” Very true. A reader’s comment on a …
Considerations If you believe that men and women are equal, which I do, are you a feminist ? What if you are a realist ? What if you are both ? Are you an empowered feminist ? Enlightened feminist ? Life isn’t fair. Smart people will take advantage of dumb… …
Is there a wave function collapse caused by consciousness ? “The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as ‘consciousness causes collapse [of the wave function]’, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement.” –Wiki on the… …
If you ever second guess your actions, I’ll tell you the first reaction is usually the correct one. Don’t second guess. Ever wondered why any time the future is known, that future dissolves ? Back in the nineties they used to make movies with masculine action heroes. Such a character… …
