Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Elon Musk Defends SolarCity Deal, Says of Being Tesla Boss: ‘I Rather Hate It’ – WSJ, July 12, 2021 It’s Elon being Elon. He hates it so much he built in into a $655 Bn (as of today) in the top ten S&P500 company. Musk is the lone board member… …
Where did you find yourself in the pandemic ? Are you making more money or less than you did before Covid ? “Median pay changed by 5% or less either at about a third of S&P 500s. It rose by more then 5% at 184 companies, and fell by more… …
Rejection is a major and constant part of life. I got more than a few emails from people overwhelmingly concerned with being rejected: at work, in life, etc. Since this is a lifestyle publication that has predominantly featured career advice (at least in the middle years: 2016-18), I’m going to …
I went though this June 11, 2021 NY Times opinion article How to Think Outside Your Brain looking for some reference points. “all the mental effort we’ve mustered over the past year has left many of us feeling depleted and distracted, unequal to the tasks that never stop arriving in …
““I want the fucking money,” he told students at Stanford’s business school, in 2017. “I will play the goddam game, and I will win.” -Chamath Palihapitiya SPACS Lord Chamath is portrayed in the first June issue of The New Yorker. Of hedge-fund managers: “Let them get wiped out. Who cares? …
Brad Felt and Dave Jilk of VC fame co-authored a new book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors, with 52 chapters headlined with a Nietzsche quote. “Nietzsche is an incredibly important and deeply misunderstood philosopher. He’s the bridge between many things that came before him — beyond just …
This is not a follow up on the Power or Power Book 2 Shows. Instead, we articulate on what true power is: “Because the person of power sees things exactly as they are, he is able to pick salients unerringly. His perceptive mind’s retina reflects the situations as clearly as… …
On 4/20 today (or 4/21, depending on who’s asking) we’ve given you 420 posts plus this one. This is from a profile of Ari Emanuel featured in the New York Post April 19th (4/26-5/3 issue): Ari Emanuel takes on the World. “He went to see Ovitz to announce that he …
In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, a woman (women are the portavoz or spokesmen for the elites, as we have repeatedly said on this blog), Jesse Singal, authored the article The False Promise of Quick-Fix Psychology where she beats on the concepts of grit (popularized by Angela Duckworth), power-posing (remember …
The name of this December 2019 post on HBR by Greg Satelle tells it all: Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore “Over the coming decades, however, agility will take on a new meaning: the ability to explore multiple domains at once and combine them into something that …
