Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
This weekend the Wall Street Journal run the article The Next Level of Marathon Training Is Here on the latest gadgets for runners. Some of these gadgets I’ve never heard of. RecoverNyc is a studio in Manhattan dedicated to recovery. ” ReCOVER gym’s CVAC pod simulates dramatic changes in elevation …
In Season 5 of the Game of Thrones we see Arya Stark entering an apprenticeship in the House of Black and White located in the City of Braavos. She has to relinquish her identity and become a new girl, with the day job of selling oysters in the market. 99.999% …
There is a new spy in the house of love: your boss. This should not be news to anyone: if you’re going to the bathroom, they’re after you. “A bluetooth device in your ID badge can track where you are from the moment you entered the building.” –WSJ This comes …
Last weekend the Wall Street Journal had a piece on how founders, CEOs and early employees met burnout on their way to wealth and success, “The Darkside of Startup Success” by Shalini Ramachandran and Rolfe Winkler. “Entrepreneurs were 50% more likely to report having a lifetime mental-health condition and reported …
Wisdom is a fickle thing. It sets you free while appearing to weight you down. You leave behind the noise of the crowd. Does that make you [more] isolated ? With wisdom you can rule without love or wealth or fear. The wise appear to be an island. While being …
The best part of starting the News and Resources from the readers…to the readers series is getting so many of them already. I don’t have a standing desk, but after receiving this tip from reader Chuck I am seriously looking at buying myself one. If a standing adjustable desk is …
” We are buffed on all sides by people who wish to see us down.” -You never know this is true until you know “only the ladder is real”. These are truisms for everyone who works in a competitive field, particularly banking. One of the most used arguments they throw …
Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy is an older book (fist Ed.: 1972) written by Michael Murphy, one of the founders of The Esalen Institute. Why I first looked at the title, I said to myself: What is this, is it about golf in Saudi Arabia or something ? …
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 …
