Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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 …
What I put up here you will not find it in any other men’s blogs. I find great value in the talks and lectures of Alan Watts (1915-1973). If you have 45 minutes, here is one of them. Quotes from Alan Watts: “You don’t aim and then shoot: it’s all …
In the Birthdays writeup on June 3rd I advanced the idea that emotions are the dark matter of human consciousness and that something else, something which I will attempt to find today, is dark energy. The terms dark matter and dark energy were borrowed from the latest, most modern, particle …
You don’t imagine someone age 60 to get on the psychedelics journey. But this is exactly what Michael Pollan did, and wrote -the best book on the subject to date. Pollan teaches writing at Harvard and UC Berkeley, where he is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of …
I vaguely heard about this method years ago but did not pay attention to it until recently. This is a body-aware movement program developed in the 1950s by Moshe Feldenkrais, a physicist and martial artist (MF apparently introduced judo to the West). There are Feldenkrais instructors grouped in centers around …
Last week’s markets fall vindicated me of sorts, since two years ago I predicted a downturn in 2018… and a recession. Had the year gone by without a significant downturn everybody and their brother would be screaming at me and tell me I wasn’t cheerleading for Trump or something. But …
Is there a wave function collapse caused by consciousness ? “The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as ‘consciousness causes collapse [of the wave function]’, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement.” –Wiki on the… …
