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 …
This is not a follow up on the Power or Power Book 2 Shows. Instead, we articulate on what true power is: “Because the person of power sees things exactly as they are, he is able to pick salients unerringly. His perceptive mind’s retina reflects the situations as clearly as… …
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. …
I watched this short-film documentary of same title produced by James Jani and I thought I should wander into this spectacle. When you have 25 minutes, you should watch it too, it’s at the end of the post. (the video has attracted over 100,000 views in one day since released… …
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 …
