Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
The plague of social media (Instagram, Meta, Tik Toc) is dominated by women, since they are the the majority of users of these platforms. Guess what else is dominated by women ? The business and professional coaching industry: 75% of business coaches in America are women, according to a recent …
I went though this June 11, 2021 NY Times opinion article How to Think Outside Your Brain looking for some reference points. “all the mental effort we’ve mustered over the past year has left many of us feeling depleted and distracted, unequal to the tasks that never stop arriving in …
Brad Felt and Dave Jilk of VC fame co-authored a new book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors, with 52 chapters headlined with a Nietzsche quote. “Nietzsche is an incredibly important and deeply misunderstood philosopher. He’s the bridge between many things that came before him — beyond just …
In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, a woman (women are the portavoz or spokesmen for the elites, as we have repeatedly said on this blog), Jesse Singal, authored the article The False Promise of Quick-Fix Psychology where she beats on the concepts of grit (popularized by Angela Duckworth), power-posing (remember …
The WSJ had this article a week ago, Meet the Market’s Messiahs of Momentum (Jason Zweig, Feb 13th, 2021). Obviously I changed that title a little bit to give you my flavor. Who are the “messiahs” of momentum ? You know, the usuals, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, SPAC King Chamath. …
The reason for this blog is greatly encapsulated in this Terence McKenna quote: “Not to know one’s true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sickeningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their …
Some readers want me to write more material on Wall Street and investment news, while others want to see more manliness stuff. The undertones of this blog may be Wall Street and my roots are in Wall Street, but please remember this is a lifestyle and decision-making blog for men. …
The world we live in is fundamentally unjust and oppressive. (unless you’re born with a silver spoon in your mouth). If you are, Congrats. For nothing. If you’re not, continue reading. On this blog I tell the hard truths of life, relationships and leadership. I do the job the mainstream …
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 …
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 …
