Max: Hey man, thanks for agreeing to make this call public, on my website. I should say “public” with your name changed and no face shown. People have gotten so picky nowadays, if they don’t put a name to a face, Youtube or something, they get cramps.

Don: So let them get it. I can’t put my face out there.

Max: Understood. You have a regular job. Pulling ass is not your occupation. That’s how I introduced you: you are not a dating coach, not a Roland-Garros champion, not a heir to some fortune. Not a pornstar. Not a rockstar. We got that out of the way.

Don: Good.

Max: For 99.9% of men in America, you pulled a record. [I have a record of my own, but is smaller by comparison…]

Don: We’re all doing the best we can, Max. I know you’d be upping your numbers if you weren’t so damn busy.

Max: Let’s get right to it. What’s the secret sauce ? How do you get them, and how do you get them so fast ? Or I should say: How are you so effective ?

Don: Your vibe, man. The hippies were right: it’s your vibe. And by the way I get more women who are married / in relationships that I get single women. There is no such thing as a single woman, my man.

Max: My readers and I, we talk to women. But we don’t get them into bed. We get maybe 5%. How do you ?

Don: I’m pretty clear from the beginning. You see, just as women are gaging me, I gage them, too. I read women fast, within 5-30 seconds. If she is not a suitable prospect, I eject.

Max: And I thought I don’t try hard enough. I thought we [men] give up too quickly, or using your words,” eject” too soon.

Don: No. You guys fluster and flip all over the place. You don’t have the right concentration. I take their buying temperature and raise it faster than mercury. Then, when I’m around them, you see, I always -maybe not now cause of the Covid shit -am right up to their faces. I am into their personal space. Even if I don’t say much, or say nothing at all. No need to grab their butts to do that.

Max: Makes sense. What else ?

Don: I used to throw a weekly party at my place, and I’d invite them.

Max: No cocaine at those parties, huh ?

Don: Nah. I don’t need that. I have a stripper’s pole, professional, and I let them wonder around it. Most chicks have never seen or used one.

Max: There you go. Cats can play with the string. You know, last Christmas in my gift buying list I recommended men buy and fix one up in their bedrooms. And where you do find them ladies ?

Don: Everywhere. On the street, subway, bus, classes, seminars, conferences, outings.

Max: You’re a class act. You make wives and girlfriends happy.

Don: I do. We are wired for novelty: when a man meets a woman, assuming they are attracted to each other, you have a period of 6 months, perhaps a bit longer, during which sex should be consumed. If she rejects you (or you reject her) for all intents and purposes she is relegated to history. If you can’t consume sex within that period, your attraction to her automatically drops. Simply put, your genetic screen blanks out to that woman. You see her again one or two years later: let me tell you, you won’t be attracted to her anymore. She’s the same woman, still looking good…but under the laws of nature, old news is no news. Meanwhile, if you two get together you might even fall in love but be prepared for the expiration date. There’s an expiration date for the attraction towards any woman, and I mean even the most beautiful woman in the world.

Max: I talked about the falling “out-of-love” concept too, in one of this year’s articles. But I never thought that your “attraction” receptors are a one time receptor and after one frequency gets used it never gets synced again. Am I putting this right, Don ?

Don: Absolutely. Falling in love is followed by falling out of love with ANY woman. This is why men must have rotations.

Max: I agree. How do you keep them from dumping you, though ?

Don: You don’t. Nobody is “dumping” you. The leaves are naturally falling of the trees. Happens every year.

Max: Wow, nobody has made that association before. Don’t you make any efforts to keep your women interested in you ?

Don: Not really. I keep it at a bare minimum. Remember, I used to make $25K a year when I graduated high-school. I had the same number of women in rotation back then. Some birds were staying for a month, while some were in for a year. I didn’t mind. You’re free to leave me when you do. I was sharing my lunches with some, while others were paying my rent. I did not mind either.

Max: Man, you sound like some freestyling, freewheeling Casanova. I bet you’re good in bed [no homo].

Don: I keep them on their toes. You can say I do what they don’t expect and what they don’t get. But it’s my razor sharp focus that allows me to score while others fail. But I don’t fuck every night. That would be exhausting to anyone with a busy career. However, I get some nights when I fuck three girls, the 8 PM shift, the 10 PM and then the 12 AM shift.

Max: What else can men do to get to your level ? Obviously, most men don’t go out every night, especially during Covid you can’t really go out anywhere. The clubs and restaurants have to close at 10 PM in New York.

Don: Stay busy. Learn how to read a woman and raise her interest. Be social. Close on the spot. Let her talk about herself -women think more of themselves than anything else. Their favorite subject is themselves after all.

Max: Listen, I need to do a Part Two with you. Thank you for this call.

Don: Sure. Bye.

Music video: Dancing people are never Wrong. Even if you don’t like this music, you gotta keep ’em dancing.

Until next time,

Your Man,

Max

Women have the greatest power and hold the highest ranks in government and business, yet every day they cry how they’re being oppressed by the white male. They’re 60% of college graduates and the majority in the workforce, yet they say that’s not enough. It is never enough.

Give us the world, and we will call you our “equals”.

It is a misconception that Wall Street ranks are some tough guys living it large with high expense accounts and playboy habits. 90% of the people who work or have worked on Wall Street in the last decade or two are herbs with no balls and no life, computer geeks and run-of-the-mill VBA coders programmed to worship women like the rest of us. I know, I’ve worked with them. A waiter working at your average restaurant has more personality than them. They probably have only one girlfriend who has carefully screened their wallet and to whom they will get married to. They probably have a dog or two of those rat-like Scottish terriers or something. And they probably have a woman boss.

That’s love in the age of Corona. Or Cholera, whatever.

Frankly, I understand. If you don’t go with the program, they’ll spit you out. The Matrix doesn’t take any prisoners. You’re easily replaceable. You have to live in a female-dominated world. You are one and they are hundreds of millions, billions of tiny little packed bits of the Matrix. You’re living in the Matrix.

Ok, now that we know we are not referring to the novel Covid-19 virus, but to the female-centric society, you should acknowledge, and be proud of your dependency to women’s greatness. Bow to the magical feminine power.

Herb lines

“I am a feminist.”

If you tell that to a girl you met, you’ve set the record straight. You don’t wanna be second-guessed.

“I practice social-distancing.”

I heard that phase as a recommendation to preventing this virus, but I would extend it and use it as a valid introduction in any social interactions, way after the Coronavirus epidemic stops being an issue.

When you see some girls talking and giggling among themselves, go up to them and say:

“What are you guys talking about ? Is it Beyonce ? Tell me it is about Beyonce.”

I once started talking to a girl and told her: ” I vote to make prostitution legal.” She wasn’t too happy to hear that one out, so I explained myself: “With prostitution legal, there’ll be fewer abortions. Life begins in the fetus.” She left with a headache.

Another herb line: “If an orgasm falls onto deaf ears, is it still happening ?”

And another one: “I feed my (female) dog vegetable chicken breasts. What do you guys think, will she be growing breasts ?

If you have a male dog, ask the girl:

“My dog is only humping other male dogs in the park. Do you think he is gay ?” If she says “Probably” say, “So happy !”

When you introduce yourself, sometimes it pays to just introduce yourself by the Zodiac sign. Say: “I’m a Sagittarius.”

Consider wearing a white suit when you go to a club. You’ll stand out. If they ask about it, just say : “White Party.”

That doesn’t mean I haven’t come across a good goal to achieve for myself.

Enter having multiple orgasms -as a man- and no spill (ejaculation) objective.

Here is a comprehensive post on the subject by Jonathan Roseland, linked here. Jonathan writes about things like The Million Dollar Point (not everything is about money, folks, this is a point on your perineum that you can press to keep yourself from ejaculating), the squeeze technique, the anal lock, tantric breath control, Cool Draw and Big draw and so forth. Roseland even puts forth a 20-day Practice Plan.

The basics of eventually achieving orgasms where you don’t ejaculate rests in Kegel exercises, with the people doing them reporting progress in 8 to 10 weeks. Here’s UCLA’s paper note on Kegels.

There are some videos that purposely lay out Kegels for men, like this one.

Should I report back in 3 months -or in 6 months- on this New Year Resolution ?

Let me know,

Disclaimer: No medical advice of any kind is written here, and no endorsements are made or implied .

December 2019. They say a year has passed. A decade has passed and a new decade lies ahead. The longest bull market run in history. How do you make sense of this ? With an interview, in the same format we pioneered in 2016, 2017, 2018 (twice) and last August. The interviewer name is of course, Mr. Savage, and his credentials include PM at a large credit fund.

Mr. Savage: Max Cantor. So glad to be with you. What’s up ? What can you say about the end of the last decade and the start of what decade? What’s coming right at us ?

Max Cantor: What’s coming right at you is everything you didn’t expect and everything that has happened before. Ok, since we’re addressing the readers of this blog, we’re addressing the top 1%, so our readers are the best prepared in the world. Our readers don’t take shit for glitter. They don’t fall for the common traps.

Mr. S: Everything that has happened before ? Can you elaborate ?

MC: Decade, schmuckade, what was before will be again. Some players will change, fools will lose their heads. One thing you learn after awhile is that people don’t change. New decade ? It’s bullshit. People will go on running their little rackets.

Mr. S: But we live in a more combative and corossive society than we did 10 years ago, even 5 years ago. Wouldn’t you agree ?

MC: I’ve been writing this blog for 7 years. It’s a pimp or be pimped world out there, as I said numerous times. 340 times to be correct.

Mr. S: Well, what has changed in those past few years ? Something has changed…your readers want your input.

MC: Well, we have the worshiping of women in the workplace, in the society we got the Universal Religion of Womanhood if you wanna call it that. But we all know women are pimping men left and right. They’re no more apt or equipped to deal with reality than men are, but they make the case that they are. I’ve got lots of haters on the account of telling the truth, including a senator, prominent lawyers and others. I’m fighting an uphill battle against censorship.

Mr. S: I didn’t realize it was like that.

MC: Whatever you think it is, it’s worse. Women are becoming more masculine and are cutting men out. So that’s one major development of the last decade. On the family development level, predictably we are seeing the rates of marriage dropping -Thank God for that ! They should be down to less than half of what they are now.

Mr. S: Why is that ?

MC: Marriage is a con-game run for the benefit of women. I wrote a short on Medium about that. You should read it. Marriage in 2019 is not what marriage was in 1999, 2009 or even after. But look, this bullshit is been known for some time. Romance is a scam perpetrated by this generation of spoiled brats. Dating is whitewashed whoring.

Mr. S: Max, if it is how you’re telling us, glad I don’t have to do it (I’m married).

MC: I know you are. Women are incredible abusers of men, but yours seems to be holding.

Mr. S. (Knocks on wood) What else, Max ? What do we need to know about the decade ending ?

MC: Read my articles, S. I mean read them thoroughly. Forget the “decade” -there is no decade. It’s just you. Look at yourself in the mirror. Are you the same that you were one year ago ? 5 years ago ? 10 years ago ? If you’re the same man with the same habits and patterns, you have a problem my friend. If you haven’t evolved during the course of a single year -forget the decade bullshit – you’re in bad shape. People will keep throwing their eggs and pebbles at you -they always do. The weak and meek gets stomped on. That will never change. Not in a decade or thousand years. You’re in the fight for your life.

Mr. S: I guess I am. Nobody has made me aware like that before. WTF. And what’s next on your side of the cubicle ?

MC: S, take it easy. We have something big in store for 2020, but I have to still my breath and keep it secret. For now.

Mr. S: Thank you, Max.

60%+ of this blog’s readership are people that work in technology: engineers, product developers, editors, etc. I thought it would be useful to link to Y Combinator’s top alumni company list of all times (by valuation).

When you click on the link, besides the names and profiles of the listings, there’s a link to that company job webpage. So, if you’re looking for a job, apply. Good luck, readers !

I’m just going to list the first 20 on that list:

1. Stripe
2. Airbnb
3. Cruise
4. DoorDash
5. Coinbase
6. Instacart
7. Dropbox
8. Ginkgo Bioworks
9. Gusto
10.   Flexport
11.   Rappi
12.   Brex
13.   Reddit
14.   Gitlab
15.   PagerDuty
16.   Checkr
17.   Segment
18.   Docker
19.   Scale
20.   Faire

Mr. Savage: Max I am thrilled to have you here, even it’s just for 10 minutes.

Max: And I am thrilled to be here with you, even if it’s just for 10 minutes. As I like to say, if you don’t know what you’re doing in 10 minutes, 10 hours won’t get you there. So go ahead.

Mr. Savage: You’re going to double publish it on Medium, you said. Isn’t that a public relations risk ? After all, you’re not exactly mainstream.

Max: No, I am not. But I have to let the larger public know what I’m about.

Mr. Savage: The value proposition of you writing this personal blog goes beyond anything I’ve seen. And I’ve seen a lot.

Max: I am one of the most controversial bloggers in the world, and I have fans beyond the finance industry. In fact, some of my biggest fans are from outside this industry. I’ve opened a lot of doors for people who’s improved their lives with the tips and “School of Hard Knocks” I’ve kept running for 7 years.

Mr. Savage: Right. One of the latest thing we’ve seen is your fascination with the Game of Thrones. That series ended earlier this year.

Max: I am a late fan of the show, and I had to watch it all. You see different types of leaders throughout the show, and they all have something to teach. For example, the saying the “Night is Dark and Full of Darkness” could be the World is Worse and Full of Scumbags.” I wrote an amazing book last year. And you know what ? Your *leaders* and *fat cows* kept it under wraps. So I say: If anyone working here has it, you’d better not tell your co-workers and supervisors. There’s a tremendous amount of ill-will toward those who are getting up the career ladder. The elites have embraced virtue-signalling and the kakistocracy is full-swing. It is now the hardest it’s even been to be promoted from low-level or mid-level to upper-level employee. True in almost ANY industry or occupation. The most typical letter I get from readers starts with: “I’ve been here for so many years and haven’t been promoted once…” The managers refuse to promote the hard-workers. I’ve tried to give you some tools in that book.

Mr. Savage: The Book of the Underdog, yes. Are you saying the managers and C-suite keep a “blind spot” to the achievers that should otherwise get promoted ?

Max: Totally. It’s a willful blind spot. You’re not part of their “tribe”, a term I’ve used in the book.

Mr. Savage: And you told us how to deal with it. Word by word.

Max: Managers stage conflict all the times. Remember, they want to see you -the underlings- fight each other and lose. They will beat the dead horse (an unreasonable issue) so the messenger falls with it.

Mr. Savage: Ok, Max. What is the next direction for your blog ?

Max: You’ve seen we got a “Free Resources for the Free Minds” where the suggestions come from readers. Readers like you. Courses, classes, white papers, suggestions, it’s a lot in there. Since I moved the blog, readership has decreased. By a lot. Like 97%. We’re not interested in paupers and jumping jacks “trolls”, but in committed and serious readers. Readers who have a mission and purpose aligned with mine. Strap on your belts, this is going to be a rough road.

Mr. Savage: Any other messages for your readers ?

Max: You need to cull and curate your reading. Cut back or completely cut your social media consumption. Social media (especially Twitter) has become a cancer. Delete your social media apps from your phone. Spend time reading books, not social media feeds which are garbage.

Mr. Savage: Which books go well, or let me say it, which 3 books go best with reading the Book of The Underdog ?

Max: Good question. I would pair the Book of the Underdog with The Magician’s Way: What It Really Takes to Find Your Treasure by W. Whitecloud and with David Goggin’s Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds. The former is not so well -known and is fiction while the latter is a 2018 best-seller readers might already have. But there are dozens more that go well with mine.

Mr. Savage: Thanks, Max.

Note: Mr. Savage insisted he needed to watch a movie.

There

But we’re not here to talk about the markets. We’re here to talk about you. At the start of the year I gave you my take on New Year’s Resolutions (Part I and Part II). If you’ve read those, you’ll know I don’t think in terms of yearly goals/accomplishments, because I prefer to work by the hour and, by extension, by the day. Let the hour be the measure of your mastery. 8760 hours in the year. There’s so many of them, you couldn’t fit them in a bag if you tried. Working with the hour (or minute) timeframes gets rid of the excuse “not having the time to___”.

Assuming you made certain yearly goals (and again, I am against those) and you’ve met only part of them, let’s say, 60%, or a specific area (i.e.: financial) came up short…what do you do ?

If you continue to work on a yearly-based goals..do you keep them, change them, or what ?

Do you have a sensitivity model for your goals ? Meaning a least/base/fantastic model ? Some people have those…like financial spreadsheets. Of course, that doesn’t work for “take a trip to Greenland” type-of-goals, you either took the trip or you didn’t. But sensitivity models would work for financial, or even skills-type of goals. (i.e.: my skills at golf, how often I played golf this year. Just make sure it isn’t how many tweets I’ve send or some nonsense).

If you’re working with yearly goals instead of fluid non-timely goals (which I prefer), the most important thing is not to beat yourself over the head over the goals that you did not accomplish this year.

When I talk about compressing time, it’s really about excluding linear time. The only time is NOW. You have no LOSSES. “Reflecting back” over last year’s is what losers do.

People take out the trash every day (every week) as it gets filled. Do the same thing…with everything.

It is the end of this year. Perhaps you take out things you no longer need to the local charity. These things were just sitting gathering dust in the garage. You need to take out of your life everything that’s been gathering dust.

Clean. Trim. Remove. Dispose.

And so it is with the goals you haven’t met. Say goodbye. (BTW, I’ve never met anyone who accomplished all of their goals. They either came up short or exceeded).

Remove the people, places, and situations in your life that didn’t go as you intended. Remove the distractions. Trim the deadbeats that don’t return your calls, emails and proposals. You must remove the people who are there in your life only for the joyrides. (That’s a biggie !) Whoops, you’re talking about my girlfriend, Max. If that’s the case, you know what to do.

Goals for the New Year must be new. If you didn’t make $ 103,230 in the old year, set a new goal for the new year. It can be higher or lower. Notice that is has to be specific (can’t be I’ll make 6 figures income next year). But to make any kind of goals, you must first be a good gardener.

Good luck in your gardening adventures and Merry Pitmas !

Thinking of him I can’t help but see what years of indoctrination and submissiveness have done.

Who’s framing you right now ? Let’s see if we can get to the bottom of it.

I define as framing [you] anyone that creates a strong dependency. The frame they impose may be self-evident or may be less visible, subconscious. Who can you name, now, that is framing you ? Is it your boss, is it your wife or husband, is it your preferred elected official ? Who do you defer to -like an automaton, without even knowing ?  Some people call this framing “persuasion” – a silly term if you consider you haven’t even given consent. Perhaps a better term for it is manipulation, because the results are the same: you become utterly dependent on them, their life choices become your life ingredients, their cause becomes your own.

Let’s talk politics for a moment. If you are a strong supporter or detractor of, say, President Trump, then Trump -is pulling your strings. It does not matter whether you like or dislike him, as long as you fall “hook, line, and sinker” you’re there buddy, you’re sucking on that popsicle.

The list expands from elected officials to anyone who is an “influencer” in your life. Anyone with a “myth” of glory, virtue, whatever. Any outsized influencer.

I could have easily titled this “Who’s framing you ?” 

Whom do we make into “influencers” in our lives ? Let’s see, who in world love to be called influencers… Aside from politicians, these are bosses, CEOs , other “thought leaders” who so wonderfully share their visions.  These people have a vested interest to keep you in their sphere of influence, so you can garble on their awesomeness[sic]. In case you haven’t noticed, yes, I am being sarcastic.  Influencers can also be your own family, your wife, husband, anyone who has an outsize control on you.

Myths are repulsive. Especially myths weaved around CEOs.

Studies have shown CEOs are the category with the largest psychopaths in number. Not only that, but psychopaths are good for business.

“We promote them,

We elect them,

Without even knowing”. –CNBC

So wise advice is to slow down sucking on that empty sugar popsicle you call your boss. Stop sucking on popsicle Trump, or Sheryl Sandberg, or any CEO “action figure hero/heroine”. They’re sapping your precious strength ! Ass ponys !

Image: Gyphy.com

See the world for what is. The world is a stage where “beautiful people” garble on their garbage. The “beautiful people” -the “influencers”-stage coach their next generation of minions. Don’t be a minion.

Good news, partner ! I am developing a “Guide to Killing You Boss” [without inflicting bodily harm] In the next  6-12 months. I will give you the tools to successfully confront your boss, replace him, and lay him in the dust.  Stay tuned !