Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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 …
In the previous post I came up with the Free Resources for the Free Mind recommendations, where the recommendations come from the readers…for the readers, and guess what ? Readers have been writing back in doves. I got 10 emails with 48 hours. My readers are tired of the online garbage out …
Among the many mistakes we make you may recognize the Texas sharpshooter’s fallacy: People make an argument based on certain information, then use that same information to confirm it (ignoring the rest). Put it into a more academic fashion, the Wikipedia entry: “The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is …
As if on cue with some of my articles in the past weeks, The WSJ Friday published an article on new buildings that feature many goodies for heath conscious home buyers.: Selling Wellness, Whether It Works or Not. Those perks I might argue, are not new age crack. They are …
What do you think has changed in last year’s hierarchy vs. 2016th or 2017th, for example ? Looking at companies with 50 to 99 employees this is what it shows: “ MANAGERS WITH 50 TO 99 EMPLOYEES Vulcan Value Partners MRA Associates Baird Asset Management Cadre Polen Capital Adviser Investments …
Perhaps your birthday is coming up. Or it has already been. What does that mean ? It means one more time to be labeled and classified. When I say your B-day is your Death day, dumbshits get perplexed. Uneasy. The don’t like that type of classification. Here is another question …
Perhaps you’re a poker player. Perhaps not. Bloomberg news yesterday wrote a piece on the study called Hedge Fund Hold’Em. ” Academics Yan Lu, Sandra Mortal and Sugata Ray try to answer the question in a new paper titled “Hedge Fund Hold’em.” This is part of an emerging academic interest in correlating …
After What the pros (Tony Robbins) do write up I realize I could have added more to it, and I do it now. WBC (Whole Body Criotherapy) is widely available and is popular with top athletes as well as with Robbins. I’ve done it. Friends of mine have done it, …
Not all of my readers come from investment banking or law so we’re going to keep this post under wraps for those who do (paid post). When I came across this Wall Street Journal article from last weekend I thought we should discuss it. There are few options for those… …
