Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
If I were to conduct a survey among my readers on which is their single most-prized, more endearing and the most satisfying thing they are after my gut tells me that freedom will be their answer. Of course, freedom comes in many ways; there is freedom of action, financial freedom, …
I don’t have an economics or a policy overview blog here. I rarely if ever talk about economic and social policies: it’s boring to me. If you want a good economics blog, head over to Mauboussin Report, Calculated Risk and others. The old statement about the rich getting richer and …
Everybody and their brothers seems to talk about the largest IPO of the year, WE (WeWork), and everyone has read the S-1 this morning. That’s not what we’re going to be talking about today. We’re going to talk about aging, something I wrote about before here and here. I described …
This weekend the Wall Street Journal run the article The Next Level of Marathon Training Is Here on the latest gadgets for runners. Some of these gadgets I’ve never heard of. RecoverNyc is a studio in Manhattan dedicated to recovery. ” ReCOVER gym’s CVAC pod simulates dramatic changes in elevation …
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 …
” We are buffed on all sides by people who wish to see us down.” -You never know this is true until you know “only the ladder is real”. These are truisms for everyone who works in a competitive field, particularly banking. One of the most used arguments they throw …
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 …
After What the pros (Tony Robbins) do write up I realize I could have added more to it, and I do it now. WBC (Whole Body Criotherapy) is widely available and is popular with top athletes as well as with Robbins. I’ve done it. Friends of mine have done it, …
After I wrote the last article where we made it clear tweeting and social media in general is beta male low value behavior, I got an email from a reader pinging me on recent articles about Twtr CEO Dorsey daily habits. I picked up People’s magazine April 11th, 2019 article …
In this post, I will make a most unusual statement. I know, have made a lot of unusual statements in the past. I’ve said the more you know, the less you are. I’ve even said that knowledge makes you blind. Today I will take the gentle hand of Albert Einstein, …
