“Major gym chains are offering new classes where participants act like animals by getting down on all fours and imitating apes, donkeys, crabs and scorpions. Another teaches caveman calisthenics.”

WSJ, Jumping Like a Bunny Is America’s Wildest Fitness Trend, Mon, May 15th, 2023

According to PInterest Predicts 2023 report, primal movement is the fitness trend of the year.

WSJ

I guess paying attention later is better than never. I know this “trend” is here to stay in stark contrast to our fake, distorted and increasingly anti-masculine modern society.

Power is egregiously concentrated in the hands of a few, and that’s never going to change.

Time is favoring the wicked. It’s the way of the world.

Stavros Gadinis, Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Law and Business:

“I think they fell for the argument that Musk did not set out to deceive investors, but that he really believed that he had the funding [to take Tesla private].” – The Guardian Uk, 3 Fe. 2023

Meanwhile here, we continue on the journey of self-development…10 years later. aren’t you glad you stuck around ?

It took years and years (we started here 10 years ago) for a reclusive corner of the academic world to come to the conclusion I came to 10 years ago: that accounting and earnings fraud is pervasive in America and goes, for the most part, undetected.

From NYT”

Dyck is a professor of finance at the University of Toronto, who just published a provocative new study on the pervasiveness of corporate fraud. The study has been passed around in the world of academia in recent weeks, and has become a fascination among general counsels, corporate leaders and investors.

It suggests that only about a third of frauds in public companies actually come to light, and that fraud is disturbingly common. Dyck and his co-authors estimate that about 40 percent of companies are committing accounting violations and that 10 percent are committing what is considered securities fraud, destroying 1.6 percent of equity value each year — about $830 billion in 2021.

“What people don’t get is how widespread the problem of corporate fraud is,” Dyck said about his study, which was published in the Review of Accounting Studies this month.

Dealbook, January 14th, 2023

A professor from the University of Ontario did this study this month…It’s not about Sam Bankman-Fried…It’s about the hundreds of them out there no-one knows about…

The tech meltdown has just begun…hold on tight

People have asked me what do I make of the crypto downfall…Sequoia Capital marks down its crypto investment down to zero dollars it’s all part of life…what goes up, must come down.

Crypto heads have been emailing me non-stop…we’ve all on the akashic platform, people.

Sadhguru on the akashic records..

I will acknowledge, however, that the golden age of blogs and journals is behind us. That’s one of the reasons I incudes a video in most posts, whether directed related to the writing or not. Blogging is a losing business monetary wise, and those of us still writing are just happy to share our thoughts and discoveries with the world.

2. Eat more eggs. (No you can’t have too many)

3. Rest for 2-3 minutes between sets, train 1-2 reps short of complete failure.

4. Eat these foods as often as possible: raw onions, garlic, ginger, oysters, pomegranate and leafy green vegetables.

— Coach Raj (@TheCoachRaj) October 15, 2022

A lot of men, some as young as 30, do TRT (injections, although it could be done as gel/patches/subcutaneous pellets). There are four types of injectable testosterone: enanthate, cypionate, propionate, and testosterone suspension. Many will recommend TRT and say that it has worked for them. Make sure that you do it under medical supervision if you decide to do it.

There are some who’ve taken it further and do peptides and HGH (IGF-1 LR3 + CJC 1295 + Ipamorelin is one protocol available). I have not done the research on peptides and could not speak for or against it. Physio Logic of New York lists here some of these peptides and their purported benefits.

But live a heathy lifestyle if you can.

This post will not be complete without the Ice Man, Wim Hof, which we first featured on the blog 5 years ago.

Syding’s latest newsletter post, How the World Work, is very rich in theosophical and existential treaties. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Obviously, I can’t reproduce it here, but he’s keen on *meetings* being the core of everything and consciousness, not matter or time, is what defines existence. [I spoke about the non-existence of time already back in 2019]. Karl-Mikhael Syding ends up signing his newsletter with the title “Aspiring Sheng-Jen”. According to the Oxford dictionary, a Sheng Jen is in China, one who hears the way of Heaven (Tʾien) and develops understanding, often translated as ‘sage’. Sheng-jen is therefore the ideal wise person who penetrates the hidden meaning of all things and lives accordingly.”

This year, I brought to your attention the Indian mystic Sadhguru . I hope you’ve read my book review of his latest book weeks earlier, and that contemporary mystic Sadhguru has inspired you.

In the beginning was a field…Syding says. Not the Big Bang. What happens is human mind can only perceive snapshots, beginnings and ends, labels. These are our limitations. Past, future. Snapshots of the human mind.

I see this “field” as emanating from the present. The future is made now…and so is the past. Poor human snapshots of reality the mind of the common folk is unable to grasp. The Universe is marching towards its end as well as towards its “beginning” concurrently, because there is no “beginning” or “end” to begin with.

In the Zone (Sadhguru’s latest short video) with former rugby player Jonny Wilkinson, CBE.

“The number of MBA-dedicated yachts expanded from 12 in 2019 to 95 in 2021, according to Day 8. These year there were 42 M.B.A. boats carrying roughly 500 people, according to the company. HBS students alone booked 28 yachts that took part in the festivities, up from 20 in 2021. Photos posted on Instagram last month showed some Yacht Week attendees in matching white hats with the HBS crest and a sailboat. Students from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and Tuck came aboard, too, according to Day 8.”

WSJ

I won’t bother you with more details of these libations since most of us are more concerned with the price of meat going up by 9% this year but remember: these are your future leaders.

They ask that you don’t call them “fats cats”. “Slurpy cats” ?

To the futures Chairmen and Chairwomen of Goldman Sachs, I will tip my hat ! And get that venture capital money for your app-for-hangovers ready, people !

Until next time,

Your Man,

Max Cantor

Can you dig it ?

FROM: [email protected]
DATE: April 16, 2022

Dear Applicant,

You got a lot of “yes” votes, so we are delighted to initiate our community-stakeholder interview.

Could you come by Bubble HQ tomorrow and give a thirty-minute ted-style talk to an auditorium of six hundred employees, followed by a Q. & A.? Think of it as one very big interview where everyone can see what you bring to the table!

Your topic is “The Future of U.I.”

P.S. The tone of the talk should be jovial, with some great zingers.

The New Yorker

The never ending steps (streams ?) of interviews. What happened with the two interviews (or three, max.) you used to have ?