Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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, …
Last year this Canadian clinical psychologist and university professor rode the high road to stardom and became a bonafide celebrity. He was the “father I never had” in the eyes of a young male audience. I appreciate his book and discussed it on my blog. (see 12 Rules for Life …
The Wall Street Journal seems to be dancing lockstep with me. Just when I write about the gap between the rich and the poor they’re backing me up, don’t they ? Witness The New Pay Gap: What Firms Report Paying CEOs Versus What They Take Home (Aug. 25th, 2019 by …
I don’t have an economics or a policy overview blog here. I rarely if ever talk about economic and social policies: it’s boring to me. If you want a good economics blog, head over to Mauboussin Report, Calculated Risk and others. The old statement about the rich getting richer and …
I haven’t done a Q&A since December, and that is a very, very, long time to be sure. No “AMAs” for me. AMAs are idiots-savaging-time popularity contents. Instead, we bring you the same format from previous years, where my dear friend and bond king of the hour, Mr. Savage, questions …
Since I’ve started rolling out this info series, from the readers –to the readers, people have been writing and linking me left and right. I don’t do boring 5 Bullets Fridays with me ala Tim Ferriss. I like information that I put out to be of immediate use to readers. …
Everybody and their brothers seems to talk about the largest IPO of the year, WE (WeWork), and everyone has read the S-1 this morning. That’s not what we’re going to be talking about today. We’re going to talk about aging, something I wrote about before here and here. I described …
The Wall Street Journal had a piece this weekend Partnership Isn’t what It Used To Be (Sara Randazo) discussing how how partnership at the largest U.S. law firms has changed and how Kirkland & Ellis, the highest grossing firm in the world, has adopted the two-tiered partner system. The two-tiered …
