Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Last weekend the Wall Street Journal had a piece on how founders, CEOs and early employees met burnout on their way to wealth and success, “The Darkside of Startup Success” by Shalini Ramachandran and Rolfe Winkler. “Entrepreneurs were 50% more likely to report having a lifetime mental-health condition and reported …
Among the many mistakes we make you may recognize the Texas sharpshooter’s fallacy: People make an argument based on certain information, then use that same information to confirm it (ignoring the rest). Put it into a more academic fashion, the Wikipedia entry: “The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is …
Perhaps your birthday is coming up. Or it has already been. What does that mean ? It means one more time to be labeled and classified. When I say your B-day is your Death day, dumbshits get perplexed. Uneasy. The don’t like that type of classification. Here is another question …
Time: Right around 12 noon.Place: I was exiting a commercial, nondescript, small building, in your “typical”, *regular* neighborhood. The parking lot was empty save for two other cars.As I was heading to my car about 10 feet away, before I got to it I stopped and took out my phone …
We’re doing a post today on the Beast, the affectionate part of this site. For those unfamiliar with the Internet slang ZFGs that’s Zero F**ks Given, sometimes also refereed as DGAFs (Don’t Give a F**k). Don’t underestimate the importance of the word fuck. I’ll just go clean with it. The …
Perhaps you have heard of the Holy Grail, the cup, stone dish, or chalice said to give eternal powers because Jesus and his disciples drank from it at the Last Supper. ” From the knights of medieval legends to Indiana Jones, the holy grail has been the most sought-after Christian …
I guess I have become the world’s foremost analyst on the Spartacus movie series. Some people found their inspiration in Jesus, others in Buddha, yet others in Jackie Chan. Not me. I’m with Spartacus. I play the series every year, it may be one episode a week or five episodes …
A reader sent me an email last weekend asking me what I will buy my gf/significant other for Valentine’s Day. The answer is: nothing. I wrote about Valentine’s before. If you can’t buy my love, should I try to buy yours ? Dipshits do not know Valentine’s Day had nothing …
Last week’s markets fall vindicated me of sorts, since two years ago I predicted a downturn in 2018… and a recession. Had the year gone by without a significant downturn everybody and their brother would be screaming at me and tell me I wasn’t cheerleading for Trump or something. But …
I have a new metric of how good you are. And it’s not what you’d expect. Let’s start with old people. Somebody might say: “I’m 35. I’m not old. Old is 45, or 65.” Yes, right. See you in ten years and you’ll just switch numbers. Everybody is old. Old …
