mine is longer than yours
"Sometimes it’s even instantaneous. Fall, break your hip, and add ten
years. Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars. It’s easy to
imagine two sixty-year-olds, friends all their lives. One looks older
because he’s bald: no big deal. Ten years later, when they’re seventy,
one has retired on disability and moved into a nursing home. The other
is still C.E.O., has left his wife for a younger woman, and, in a
concession to age, takes a month off each year to ski."
三四十年後,我和老友們,會變成這樣嗎?我會是ceo,還是在老人院中上網過日晨的老頭?
the pleasures of uninterrupted communication
我
承認,我很喜歡那種快要被email淹沒的感覺。 下機後看到數十個unread
email時,我會覺得很滿足,也喜歡別人看到我在海外半夜回email時的反應。不過,我也明白manage the
queue的重要。如果做不到這一點,就不能逢email必回啦 :-)
the new math
人
們常說private equity people是smartest guys in the
room,但純粹論iq的話,他們和這篇文章中的hedgie相比應該還有一段距離。不過,這些人真的認為,statistical
model可以推算金融市場運作和參與者的行為?雖然這種研究很有趣,但每次看到這樣的文章時,我只會想到ltcm.......
bill bryson - a short history of everything
老闆這陣子不斷向我介紹好書,完全不理會他好像不太好。其實這本書也蠻不錯的,只不過對著天才級數的老闆,萬一告訴他讀過,但又答不到他的問題就麻煩了......