Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Rejection is a major and constant part of life. I got more than a few emails from people overwhelmingly concerned with being rejected: at work, in life, etc. Since this is a lifestyle publication that has predominantly featured career advice (at least in the middle years: 2016-18), I’m going to …
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 …
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… …
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 …
