Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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 …
I’ve posted an alert today on a webinar that’s less than 53 minutes away from my writing here: Details (free link registration) “Acquisitions are at an all-time high in the data center sector. However, not all owners and investors want to operate and manage facilities internally. On new deals, parties …
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. …
Aug. 13th, 2020 Bloomberg article The Age of the Everything Banker Is Here: Get Ready for Odd Jobs brings up to the forefront the reality of the IB profession changing landscape. Three months ago I boldly said that up to a third of IB jobs will be lost. People got …
In a July 27, 2020 article the WSJ spotlighted the coronavirus effect on the film industry. Case in point: The Pinewood Atlanta Studios where “Avengers: Endgame” was shot. “The regime of testing for the several hundred producers, set designers, painters and carpenters will cost more than $1.5 MM a month …
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 …
The choice for courses during this quarantine is large; precisely why we started the Free Resources for the Free Mind series last year. This is your 8th Free Resources post list (from Jonas): Global Procurement and Sourcing Specialization through Coursera from Rutgers University, N.Y. From the Curriculum: “Strategic Sourcing, then …
Since I became more of a household name, a few folks have been asking if I did any phone consultations. Well now, after two months of quarantine and two dozen emails requesting it, I finally said yes. A phone consultation with me can be booked from anywhere in the world …
