Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
” 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 …
A shot goes out to reader Steve for compiling and sending us this information. Steve’s email appropriately says: “Max has done more to opening my eyes than any of the crummy, big name operators. In the men’s Internet space, there is only one Max Cantor.” Steve Thank you, Steve. In …
While I’m at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in S.F. I don’t forget my techies readers who are not attending. 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 …
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 …
This month we have The Stanford University Monthly Magazine for you to read if you didn’t read it already. Of particular interest I think is the piece Can They Ever Catch Up ? (Rebecca Beyer) about the millennials who graduated around the Recession who are still unable to buy a …
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, …
This is the first obituary I post on the blog. Likely the last one, too. In memory of T. Boone Pickens, wildcatter and amazing businessman, who passed away at age 91. While I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Pickens, he always struck me with his high energy. Pickens made …
Power vs. Force is a book I consider dated (1995-2006) in terms of what it offers. I gave it a 3.5 rating on a scale of 1 to 5. Central to the book is the points scale using kinesiology Dawkins developed to scale up human consciousness. His scale represents a …
Thank you for reader Tom for alerting us to this. I am posting it late here, as this free conference is Sept. 5h-8th. SYMPOSIUM VENUE AND DATE Stanford University | Cubberley Auditorium | From the website: “ OBJECTIVES During this decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a new discipline called metascience, …
I will admit, I haven’t written any book reviews in the last few months. That is why I’ll give you two book reviews one after another. Today it will be A Man For All Markets (2017) by Edward O. Thorp. If you’re in finance and you haven’t read this book, …
