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 …
You’ve probably heard variations of this line, whether it’s “bad things happen to good people.” or “good things happen to happy people” or “You know that saying, bad things don’t happen to good people? That’s a lie. – Tori Amos. Let’s look at some more thoughts on the subject: “I don’t …
In the Book of the Underdog I touched on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which measures interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, and developmental and antisocial traits related to psychopathy. [In the U.S., people who score at least 30 out of 40 are generally classified as psychopathic. The inmates’ scores ranged from 3.2 …
I haven’t posted health-related information in awhile. Today, I’d like you to talk about a study dated Oct. 2018 on Fisetin, a senolytic activator: “Fisetin is a senotherapeutic that extends health and lifespan.“ -at the National Library of Medicine. Findings: Of the 10 flavonoids tested, fisetin was the most potent senolytic. …
Elon Musk Defends SolarCity Deal, Says of Being Tesla Boss: ‘I Rather Hate It’ – WSJ, July 12, 2021 It’s Elon being Elon. He hates it so much he built in into a $655 Bn (as of today) in the top ten S&P500 company. Musk is the lone board member… …
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 …
““I want the fucking money,” he told students at Stanford’s business school, in 2017. “I will play the goddam game, and I will win.” -Chamath Palihapitiya SPACS Lord Chamath is portrayed in the first June issue of The New Yorker. Of hedge-fund managers: “Let them get wiped out. Who cares? …
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 …
