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“There’s a part of everyone, I guess, that just knows how to let go and enjoy.”
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In returning to the post-pandemic work schedule it seems that most top white collar professionals, the main audience of this blog are set for the hybrid, at-the-office and out-of-the-home, work schedule model. Of course, dentists and doctors aren’t able to do that. (although telemedicine is growing). But lawyers and other service workers are digressing.
This weekend WSJ’ article “”Lawyers Want to Bill More of their Hours From the Sofa” (Te Ching Chen) tell how lawyers are looking to cut down their office work hours.
“Ms. Koopersmisth [chairperson of Akin, Gump Staruss Haeur & Feld LLP] Akin Gump doesn’t expect laweyrs to go back to a traditional five-day office workweek. Instead it is offering flexibility on work location, and is asking its lawyers to spend the majority of time in the office starting next fall.
“We learned efficiency” says David Boies, chairman of Boies Schiller Flexer LLP, whose firm plans to require lawyers put in time at the office, but won’t mandate specific attendance requirements. And our clients have too.”
Now a major partner at legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, Ms. Fivel is brokering signing bonuses of up to $100,000 for associates who have the leverage to demand further perks, including the ability to work from the beach or the backyard. “This is a different word.”
WSJ, Aug 6, 2021
It is not just tech firms who have embraced the remote work model, but the legal profession also. Remote work is here to stay.
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Heath and tech, that’s where the money is. That’s where the money was before the health crisis, but even more so now.
Ranadive Calls SPACs “Greatest Wealth Creation Opportunity in History”
Bloomberg
Slack and Spotify went public though direct listings…Now AirBnB is scheduled to do it too.
The era of the useless IB “Analyst”, the spreadsheet shuffler, is slowly coming to an end. Only people who are producing, what we like to call “kill their own lunch” shall be left standing.
P.S: This year I probably wrote more articles about “relationships” and gender dynamics than I ever did, so your free bonus today for those Don Juans in the field who are free men [read: not married] is this pick up line:
“You wouldn’t say no to me if you knew I was gay”
Use it wisely.
The post Investment banking jobs are changing first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]>Monday June 15th, The WSJ had an article “Negotiating that Raise or Promotion” (Tessa West) I will comment on today.
Unless you are self-employed, most of us today aren’t negotiating for raises, we’re “negotiating” for holding on to our jobs and not being axed in a crashing economy. Forget the raise -nobody is giving any raises, folks. I’m thinking 30% of investment bankers are going to lose their jobs in the next year or so – and they don’t even know it. Who goes out the door first ? Juniors, of course.
I said negotiating with your BB as in Big Brother. See, I call your boss the Big Brother. (of course I know the biggest brother we often use the word for is the government, but what are you going to call your boss, Little Brother ?)
The only way you’ll still have a job in the next few months is if you’re hooking up yours to your boss’s.
We’re not living in a normal economy. We’re living in an economy suffocated by incompetence and artificial status hierarchies.
Back to the article
Tessa West says you need to ascertain your boss social hierarchy status: “hierarchies constantly shift”. Of course they do.
“What does your request ‘cost’ your boss in social capital ?”
Tessa West
“What problems does your request solve for your boss ?”
TW, The Wall Street Journal
Oh ya, like you thought bosses are those little angels here to help people in need. You can read the rest of the WSJ article at your leisure.
Know this: the boss, BB (nice sounding name by the way, bee-bee), whatever, only cares about his/hers social (organizational) status. You either understand this or you don’t.
What have you done for me lately ? is the name of an old song by Janet Jackson, but it is also your boss’s OS.
There you go, Adam Galinsky, “getting inside your boss’s head”.
Here comes my 20+ years of experience dealing with bosses: a very confident boss is just as bad, or worse, than an insecure boss. Bingo ! (Please don’t make this quote into another meme, I’ve had enough of those already).
You need to bring your boss up the ladder of confidence or he’ll lose you faster than a speeding bullet.
With a very confident boss, and we’re talking C-level here, you need to get him out of the stratosphere and back to breathing though the face masks we’re going to be using around one another for at least some time. Unless you’ve discovered a Covid-19 vaccine, he doesn’t care about you.
Talking about Covid-19, remember: there’s no such thing as an “invisible enemy” (I know you’ve heard that term a lot lately.) Your boss is vulnerable no matter what industry you work in or how high up in the hierarchy he’s in.
Let him know the higher up they are, the harder they fall.
I wrote this Book, The Book of the Underdog for people like you, who’ve had enough of being pushed aside and away. After dealing with the wild card bosses are for a very long time, I gave you straight up the truth about bosses, careers, negotiations and lifestyle improvements. Written in 2018, BOU is still the Manual for handling your bosses.
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 (make sure you’re adjusting your time to mine – I am on Pacific Time Zone -America). You’ll be required to enter a payment method to secure your reservation.
Please use this Square link (also repeated below). You’ll pay a reasonable fee of $300 for a 1/2 hour chat -we do this over the phone but if you feel the need to share things with me such as documents (non-proprietary, please) we can use Google Docs, Dropbox, or conference apps such as Cisco WebEx, Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts— I use them all. Make sure you use the one app you’re comfortable that it gives you the highest degree of security. If we need further time together, another 1/2 hour for example, you will not have to pay another $300. This phone consult is on a sliding scale after half an hour, your total phone consultation cost will depend on how long we’ll be together depending on our schedules. A full hour, for example, might end up costing you $450 if we so agree. I will not cut a phone call short before fully explaining myself to you and giving voice to my concise opinion, giving you time to take notes. I’m not here to hold your hand, I draw on 20 years of “Senior-level” experience.
If you need to cancel your phone appointment, please do so at least 24 hours beforehand. Otherwise, you’ll be charged a late cancellation fee of $100. No-Shows get charged more: 50% or $150.
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Please be as specific as possible. While you can change names for the sake of it, it may be advantageous to you to use your real name because it happened to you and not “your friend”. Have a solid clear, chronological List of Events, just like you do when you go to a lawyer. (To be clear, I don’t give lawyer advice or opinions of law). Hire a lawyer for that one. Lawyers (some of them) are good at what they do. Relationships “therapists” and “marriage counselors” -they’re garbage if you know what I mean. Note: I don’t discuss or entertain any securities offerings or investment advice.
I specialize in low-hope, distressed and high-stakes situations. Career, personal life, geo-tactical decisions, “incredibly difficult” missions, reboots of life.
Because of the nature of my business, all information will be held in strictest confidence. At worst I’ll point you to the right resources. I’ll sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with the folks who want it. If you decide to go forward and employ me to undertake a project for you, thereby taking advantage of my personal resource capabilities, you will sign a formal Compensation for Services Agreement which spells out my tasks and responsibilities, the services involved, milestones. and compensation structure (typically a fixed retainer with half of it due at signing, the other half after completion).
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The post NOW offering: Phone Consultation first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]>It is time that someone wrote a real guide not only for the men working in the investment industry but for all men who aren’t jokers. I mean, you can listen to the Joker (Boris Brejcha) which I do even in this post. But don’t make your life a caricature. So this list was born. There aren’t 99 Rules in this list, but we’d like to aim for a good-measure number (69 would do it).
1. Marriage is OUT.
In the past decade, marriage has has become the rawest, worst deal for men in America and the West altogether. Marriage is an outdated institution with laws giving women the upper hand, no man with some self-esteem should walk that dark alley. (70% of divorces are initiated by women, and that number climbs higher, to 90% for college-educated women).
2. Social media is poison, and even if you’ve joined Twitter (dada: Twatter) you know by now it’s a garbage cesspool.
3. If your girlfriend is an Instagram person, you’ve got a coochie bug.
Not worth it !
4. Learn to cook for a change. It’s one of the essential skills a man needs to have.
5. The Modern Woman doesn’t need protection from anything really, it is you who need protection from women.
You can fill in the blanks…from __, ___.__
6. When in doubt, leave her. Don’t fall for the fallacy of sunk costs.
7. Alcohol is another thing that is OUT. In is milk who does a body good.
You will stand out if you don’t drink at a party.
8. No matter what Silicon Valley vampires tell you, you can still make a good impression if you’re wearing fashionable shoes and a great watch.
9. Lunch and dinner etiquette: eat light. When you eat a heavy meal, your energy is diverted to digesting it, making you sloppy and slow-thinking and acting. Never eat full.
10. Try to get laid on a first date. If you can do that with some frequency you’ll be a winner at everything eventually. It’s the War of the Sexes that must be won first.
11. Do have a Wall of Fame with canvas pictures of good-looking exes framed in your bedroom.
Your girlfriend must know where you come from.
12. NEVER buy dinner to woman you haven’t f****ed.
13. Hookers can be some of the most sincere women in the world, because they put a price on something that too often is overpriced.
14. Women nowadays are seriously overvaluing themselves. Even the ugliest of women looks good in some pictures. You need to give those women some space.
15. She’s not as important as you think she is.
16. For the married lads: now what ?
You’re slowly descending into mediocrity and you know it, what do you do ? The clock is running: tick-tock-tick. Your pal suggests you try a threesome…should you ? Would you ? Yes. Threesomes are in. MFF. Three is a magic number. There are three in the Holy Scripture. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” -three in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Mind, body and spirit -three.
17. The way you handle your boss is the same way you train a dog.
You give it a treat when he behaves and withdraw attention when he misbehaves. For more info, make sure you get your BOU (The “Alpha Male Bible” ).What does is look to be at the top of your game ?
18. With your girlfriends, may you have many and plenty all your life, always experiment. Women do not like being bored. Remember, life is an adventure.
19. Be her immutable, solid rock. Stay firm and rooted and don’t let the tides of life blow you away. That is the essence of being a man.
20. Always have time slots during the day when you are unreachable (no phone or internet connection).
Your own time away from everybody. As you get older and wiser, so do the “unreachable” times are getting larger.
21. The best pick-up line in the world: “Tell me something about you that I don’t already know.”
22. The Second best pick-up line in the world: “Lady, when I’m deep asleep I am 10X smarter than you are. Now, you were saying…”
23. Any woman in a man’s life is replaceable.
Women know this instinctively, as demonstrated by their propensity to pursue taken men. A man that’s taken -married or not- is seen more attractive to them than a single man.
24. “Only one woman in the world exists in the world, one woman with countless faces.” -Nikos Kazantzakis, 1952
25. The key to a woman’s heart is hidden in plain sight.
26. Talking about keys, the key to your career that will open the biggest doors is called envy.
27. Word on the Street is that being a feminist is the key to the heavens. I’m taking that advice to the bank.
28. If you have an overbearing, bad woman boss, what do you do ?
Well, if you’re married, say: “Tell that to my wife”, then hand over your phone to the boss. If you’re not married, say: “It’s not easy being green.”
So this happened: the new decade swooped in… and we have to make it to 69. Let’s get some more music in before we do that…
29. 2020s, a new decade ? Welcome to 2010 is more like it. With the passage of time, the worst of the old gets a facelift.
30. The Big Guns favor themselves. They love themselves so much, they came to with the idea of gender parity goals because…what’s better than cutting the nip in the buds ?
31. There’s no such thing as a bad woman boss.
Did you write that on your office whiteboard yet ?
32. Happiness without money doesn’t exist, but money without happiness sometimes does happen.
33. True gender equality at work will not be achieved until all women dress up exactly like men..or men dress up exactly like women.
34. Sample far and wide.
And by sampling I don’t mean food, I mean flings. I’ve had flings hailing from 18 different nations and four continents. To some that’s a low diversity number. Well, put me to shame. As far as I can tell, the farther they are from your original ethnicity, the more interesting things can get. Hop on the diversity bandwagon.
35. Women, as far as we can tell, divide men into two categories: Cads and Dads.
Sometimes Cads become Dads. These are the sad bunch. Score +1 Women to -1 Men. Very rarely do Dads become Cads. Women really hate that.
36. When Dads become Cads, women label it with the misnomer of “Midlife Crisis”.
37. I second the popular truth voiced elsewhere that people in position of power are more likely to cheat regardless of sex.
38. You can’t take a lady to the water park without getting her dress wet. You might as well not go at all.
39. Romance isn’t cheap, they say. I say there’s no romance to buy or sell.
40. On a TSA security check-up recently, while they were patting me down, I said: Oh, yes ! Harder ! Feel that round firm tights.
41. The most useful text message in the book of texting:
“I’ll take care of u” then hours later (5 hours or more) “when u’re ready” …more time lapse (one or more hours later)…”u horny ?”
They key here is to send this texting sequence hours apart…It make the hamster go full 5200 rpm.
42. Own an emblazoned tie and cufflinks.
43. When you have bragging rights, write a book.
44. Scale it up and own the rights to a movie.
45. Your last breakup should be your ticket to freedom, as in more more lays and layaways.
What are you sad about, then ?
46. A woman doesn’t love you until she cries for you.
Ah, what about crocodile tears, I heard… Did you get a lighter and threaten to burn up her shoes ? Are you telling me those tears aren’t real ?
47. If you take up DJ-ing on the side, you’ll either become the CEO of Goldman Sachs or get more lays, but not both.
48. Ledger book love is overrated.
49. The difference between a wife’s and a concubine’s love is 5,000 feet and counting, with the concubine’s being the greatest (highest).
Both men and women know that instinctively.
50. Those who cheat, win. Take that to the bank.
51. The cheat codes are in the winners DNA.
Examples: A pretty woman will, in all likelihood, cheat. A smart person..will cheat. That doesn’t mean that ugly ones and dumb people don’t cheat, however.
52. Trying to cheat is NOT cheating. Cheating is NOT getting caught. If you get caught -that is not cheating. Every winner knows that.
53. When your woman says F.U., you got fucked a long time ago.
Women see their SMV (Sexual Market Value) plummet as they age (around 35 although some say is even earlier) while men’s, generally speaking, is on an upswing.
54. The Trivers-Willard hypothesis (gTWH) suggests that physically more attractive parents are more likely to have daughters than physically less attractive parents. Hence, women are the more beautiful sex.
The geniuses who have daughters plus half of China are now going to think they fall under the “attractive” category. Don’t hold your breath.
55. Women who cheat far outnumber the men who cheat.
56. In our progressive society, women hold the power while blaming and shaming men for having it.
57. The Mastery Key is unlocked when a man lives of a woman. In the guest house. A struggling actor can pull that off.
58. The key to getting a model is modeling for her.
59. There is no “cure” to cheating. Stop treating it like a disease. It is not. It is a feature.
60. Should a man who got a better job, a higher paying job, upgrade his wife ? By all means. If he was smart enough, he wasn’t married to begin with.
61. What makes a marriage strong: a healthy age difference between the man and the woman, where the man is considerably older than the woman.
Also, drop the monogamy garbage to the site curb where it belongs.
62. Older men are better than younger men.
Both men and women agree to it or they feign disagreement.
63. They say a woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing while a man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.
It is mostly the women who have everything…
64. The smartest way to deal with haters is to call them out: Yo’, women…
And put out some Lady Gaga lyrics:
“I can’t wait to smoke them all
Whole pack like Marlboro
Blow it in your face, blow it in your face
Blow it in your, blow it in your face
I can’t wait to rev you up
Faster than you can say Ferrari
Tearin’ up the gravel, watch you unravel
Now it’s a party…” -Source: Lady Gaga, A-Yo song, Joanna album
65. Women’s greatest fear is that they are no longer desired.
Their fallout is inevitable because beauty is perishable. That’s why we don’t invest in beauty with marriage.
66. Another friendly exchange:
You: What are you thinking ? Her: This, that.
You: Good, because I don’t have you thinking about my crotch all the time.
67. The hamster feeds into darkness. Feed it into darkness.
Few will understand this. Is that hamster splitting atoms by now ?
68. Instacrap + Facetoilet + Twatter = Let the simping GAMES begin !
69. The higher-ups pull the ladder up behind you.
With the abundance of geniuses who are also triathletes and meditators, rowers and God-knows-what, it’s become extremely difficult to stand out. Fortunately you have the backhanded compliments.
Poll
Disclaimer: “Goldman Socks” does not in any way refer to, allude to or personalizes the firm or character of banking firm Goldman Sachs.
The post The No Bullshit , not - Goldman Socks Guide to Being a Man first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]>“Entrepreneurs were 50% more likely to report having a lifetime mental-health condition and reported significantly higher rates of depression, ADD, substance abuse and bipolar disorder than a control group”, citing a 2016 paper by UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford University done with 200 subjects.
Some of the folks detailed in the article tried Aderrall, others cooking schools and founding food startups. For others life spiraled out of control, as in the case of Brandon Truaxe . On a lighter scale, people have dealt with overeating and binge-eating.
Some do the right things we often emphasis on this blog: Mark Pincus of Zynga does triathlons, surfing and weekly coaching. Even gratitude journals.
Pushing past the limits in workload means the recovery has to be more diligent and carefully scripted.
We hope you can do it.
Extreme stress = extreme or at the very least, remarcable recovery.
Aren’t you glad you’ve found this blog ? Can’t think of a better relax compote with Barney’s truth serum drink.
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“I think it’s great when people lose their jobs when it [sexual harassment] happens, because I think that is what will get people to not do it in the future,” Sandberg said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang. “And I think this is a leadership challenge. As a leader of a company, there needs to be no tolerance for it.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Onto Uber’s next leader: “People respond to what’s tolerated and what’s encouraged,” Sandberg said when asked what advice she had for Uber’s next leader. “And I think a great leader can change the culture of I think almost any company in almost any situation. You put in new policies, you have new procedures, your language is different; I’m always optimistic.” (Fortune)
I’m not going to discuss the Google Memo, but Sheryl comments make sense. Hey, Sheryl, I’ll trade you my job for yours [maybe].
What we do on this blog is power analysis. I won’t debate the Memo. I don’t work for Google, and frankly, it’s NOMB.
What a leader needs to do:
1. Make sense of the news if it is newsworthy.
2. Set an appropriate course
On the power level, the executive needs to meet the audience at their level. Notice the Google Memo did not debate or implied sexual harassment. Nevertheless, Sheryl addressed it straight point. Why ? Because that issue was in [most] people’s minds presumably drawing “the red line”. By talking about sexual harassment, Sheryl met the audience at its needs.
2. Sheryl diluted the argument diplomatically. Notice the generalities employed in those comments, and how well they are reframed to the leader. Sheryl spoke from the leader’s framework, as it should be. Notice there’s no flimsy wasting of breath on any bullshit. A leader does not waste her words on arguments that she/he is not part of.
Back to the original issue and the firing of the engineer. Should you be your “authentic” self in the workplace…or not ? A lot of you have that issue, whether you’re an engineer, a technician, driver, baker, butcher,..or the Boss Impaler which is what I’ve been called, whatever.
1. Authentic is meaningless unless you have power. If you’re some dope looking for attention and such…leave your manhood for the bedroom set. Nobody likes a smartass.
2. The First Rule of the Underling is to Acquire Power. Not to confront an organization. Confront a Person. Always Target A Person. Get that into your Head. The majority sets the “culture”, not you.
3. From 1) and 2) above, you can already seee that James Damone was dumb as a brick. Before she became FB’s COO while working at GOOGL do you think Sheryl gave a rat’s ass about culture ? She was there carefully orchestrating her rise, a little here and there, doing her job and getting her commendations. That may sound like a Ferengi Rule of Acquisitions, so here are some pictures for you dumbshits to stare at. If I had a dime for every idiot that works in finance, I’d be a millionaire by now.
Anyway, got to get back to my boring work modeling NOLs and carry forwards.
Until next time,
Max
Update: 8/11/17 Reader Ron submitted his favorite Ferengi quotes in the comments below. Since Comments are sometimes harder to read, I’ll reproduce his favorite “Rules of Acquisitions” [Source link] Get ready for it. For those that don’t know what the Ferengi are, they are a merchant race in the nineties sci-fi series “Star Trek”.
Rule #38: Everyone needs something.
Rule #29: Always ask, “What’s in it for me?”
Rule #27: There’s nothing more dangerous than an honest businessman.
Rule #60: Keep your lies consistent.
Rule #66: Double the price, then sell it half off.
Rule #72: Never trust your customers.
Rule #91: Hear all, trust nothing.
Rule #98: Every man has his price.
Rule #99: Trust is the biggest liability of all.
Rule #104: Faith moves mountains of inventory.
Rule #106: There is no honor in poverty.
Rule #110: Playing dumb is often smart.
Rule #114: The one in power defines morality.
Rule #116: There’s always a catch.
Rule #117: Profit is the better part of valor.
Rule #121: Everything is for sale, including friendship.
Rule #128: Secrets are commodities, sell them.
Rule #129: The fear of poverty is the beginning of knowledge.
Rule #130: Never pay for sentiment, always charge for it.
Rule #131: Information is profit.
Rule #137: Everything is negotiable.
Rule #142: There’s no such thing as an unfair advantage.
Rule #151: The man is richest who’s pleasures are cheapest.
Rule #152: A lie is a way to tell the truth to someone who doesn’t know.
Rule #155: Power is 50% what you have and 50% what people think you have.
Rule #160: Happiness is not mere possession of profit, but joy of acquisition.
Rule #161: Beyond the mountains there are more mountains.
Rule #162: Even in the worst of times, someone turns a profit.
Rule #163: When a friend makes profit, you don’t.
Rule #171: Blood is thicker than water, and money is thicker than both.
Rule #173: Dream, plan, believe, act.
Rule #174: If you can’t buy it, find someone who can.
Rule #176: The wind always favors the best navigator.
Rule #183: When it’s a question of profit, everyone is of one belief.
Rule #184: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Rule #185: Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Rule #186: There is no security, only opportunity.
Rule #190: Hear all, trust nothing.
Rule #195: You can’t jump a 20 foot gorge in two 10 foot jumps.
Rule #197: Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
Rule #198: You can’t shake hands with a fist.
Rule #200: A wise man chooses no side but his own.
Rule #205: Trust can be expensive.
Rule #206: Distrust can be expensive.
Rule #207: Sense without education is better than education without sense.
Rule #208: Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a question, is an answer.
Rule #216: Never gamble with an empath.
Rule #217: You can’t free a fish from water.
Rule #218: Always know what you’re buying.
Rule #220: Listen what they say while watching what they do.
Rule #221: Computers can only give you the answers.
Rule #222: The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be believed.
Rule #228: Bid high and bid often.
Rule #236: You can’t buy fate.
Rule #240: Do it yourself and keep it yourself.
Rule #244: Because something’s priceless doesn’t mean it’s not worthless.
Rule #245: Benevolence is 50/50.
Rule #246: Innocence is expensive.
Rule #247: Don’t negotiate with the underlings.
Rule #248: Profit is in the details.
Rule #251: Don’t miss the opportunity by grabbing at the shadow.
Rule #252: Little steps may prove great profit.
Rule #256: Accountants do not play the game; they only keep the score.
Rule #257: Despise the things you cannot have.
Rule #266: When in doubt, lie.
Rule #267: If you believe it, they believe it.
Rule #268: Hold on to what you have, but plan for future luck.
Rule #269: Trying to please an enemy makes you the loser everytime.
Rule #270: In business deals, a gun can be almost as important as a calculator.
Rule #271: What we want is not always the most profitable.
Rule #275: Foolish investment based on foolish advice is still foolish investment.
Rule #276: Overbooking is standard practice.
Rule #277: Anything worth fighting for is worth hiding from.
Rule #278: Appearances are deceptive. Dress above yourself.
Rule #279: Necessity knows no price.
Rule #280: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Rule #283: An individual is smart, a group is not.
Rule #284: Deep down, everyone’s a Ferengi.
The Unwritten Rule: When no appropriate Rule applies, make one up!