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 is from an article at A16Z by Ben Horowitz written back in 2011 “Peacetime in business means those times when a company has a large advantage vs. the competition in its core market, and its market is growing. In times of peace, the company can focus on expanding the …
Last summer Business Insider reproduced Cullen Roche (Pragmatic Capitalism) named-title post on the significance of bloggers in finance (How blogging changed Wall Street). Here are some bullet points from that article: “It used to be that the most interesting research and analysis was being done at big banks or in …
Reader Luke says: “Hello Max, I have a bear on my property who’s been quite aggressive lately. I don’t know what to do. My wife can’t stand shotguns (I have one and know how to use it) because she believes you should not use a gun on an animal, no …
What are you buying this holiday season? Today I was looking at my honeys. I mean my knives. I pet them. I talk to them (hence, “honeys”).I was considering adding another one to my collection.I love them as I love my plants. Or my collection of hats. I selected for …
Need comes before anything. Do you ask questions before you can get the answers? Foreground: In his book, More Transforming Negative Self-Talk, Steve Andreas describes his clinical demonstration with a client, Pamela. Pamela hears a depressing voice in her head. The voice she hears is that of a person who …
Tony Parsons is the celebrated author of best-selling novels Man and Boy, The Open Secret, Man and Wife, Departures, Catching the Sun and others. He also has a monthly column at GQ Magazine UK. (Are you looking to write a book? His thoughts on it How to write a bestselling book, …
Sex at Dawn is a book written back a few years ago on the origins of human sexuality with well appointed arguments about the primitive -forager lifestyle- human population. The authors, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha focus on the early humans closest behavior to the chimps and the often ignored …
Early buyers of the Book of the Underdog, those who bought it between August and October, are entitled to the Supplemental write-up here. To make it more fun, I wanted to initially place the essay under a code, where the code is the correct answer to a riddle. I realize some …
It’s been a couple of weeks since the the start of the federal trial alleging racial bias against Asian-Americans filed by Edward Blum of the Project on Fair Representation. (The Justice Department backs the lawsuit against Harvard). Is is hard to get into Harvard? It sure is considering just 4.7% …
Last week I attended the Crowd Invest Summit in L.A., an event sponsored by Ownera, American Airlines, Abra, Blackmoon, Netki, CWE, GoWithMi, MasFintech, AltMarket, TokenIQ, Teknos Crypto & Blockchain Valuation Specialists, and others. I went on a self-educating quest looking to learn more about the space. Steve Wozniak was there, …
