Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
There aren’t many blogs dedicated to men’s self-improvement left in the world. Even less so blogs written by finance professionals. Since years ago, I subscribe to the updates to two blogs [left] that define their space, one is David Asprey’s and another Michael Syding’s, the former [and more recently, active] …
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 …
Over a year ago I wrote a post on delayed and dry ejaculation. I’m going to follow up today with the description of ballooning. “Ballooning is almost similar to edging with the addition of Kegel exercises while performing a massage on a fully erect penis concentrating on the lower shaft part and …
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’m reading three books currently. One of them is a heavy, allegorical book by 20th Century Armenian/Greek mystic, C.I. Gurdjieff, Beezelbub’s Tales to His Grandson. Reading this prose takes considerable patience. Here are some highlights from it… “Everything existing in the world ‘falls to the bottom.’ The ‘bottom for any …
I am currently re-watching GoT Season 8 . It was a great show, as millions around the world know it. There’s nothing else good to watch, HBO is going going from great (Game of Thrones) to shitty. Next month, they’re releasing a show about “investment bankers lives” based on a …
Poker pro and two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion and Woman Grandmaster Jennifer Shahade hosts a popular strategy-based podcast called “The GRID“. In an Nov. 26, 2019 article in PokerNews, she says poker has taught her “to remain aware of those moments when she is just coasting by, or not taking enough …
” I bury the bone so deep that the dogs have to scratch for it .” -G.I. Gurdjieff I came upon this controversial Armenian mystic whose body of work includes All and Everything. If you’ve never heard of him, this might spark your interest: Gurdjieff said that he had answered …
I’ve written three posts on memory and its’ link to aging already (you can find them here,here and here). We’re not talking here about keeping a sharp memory, the memory palace techniques used by some, or staving off age-related memory loss. What we are talking about is the disaffecting effects …
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, …
