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 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 …
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 …
So here we are with even the SEC warning against the pitfalls of SPAC-endorsed investments. “It is never a good idea to invest in a SPAC just because someone famous sponsors or invests in it or says it is a good investment. ” –SEC released note: Celebrity Involvement with SPACs – Investor Alert. …
A “sample” of 13 Analysts working at Goldman Sachs and making $150 -160,000 a year (way more than they’re worth) came out with a protest letter last month, arguing that they work too much…too hard. Generation Z…is the the weakest generation. But it’s not just that. This culture is the… …
Over a year ago I wrote a post on delayed and dry ejaculation. I’m going to follow up today with the description of ballooning. “Ballooning is almost similar to edging with the addition of Kegel exercises while performing a massage on a fully erect penis concentrating on the lower shaft part and …
The WSJ had this article a week ago, Meet the Market’s Messiahs of Momentum (Jason Zweig, Feb 13th, 2021). Obviously I changed that title a little bit to give you my flavor. Who are the “messiahs” of momentum ? You know, the usuals, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, SPAC King Chamath. …
I watched two episodes S1 and S2 of the TV show Power co-produced by 50 Cent. It’s an Ok show, but still with rubbish and female aggrandizement. I expected better from 50 Cent. Still, it is the best entertainment that you can get nowadays. The Show ran for 6 seasons, …
