In college, everyone tells you to savor the moment and that you will never be this young again. You hear it, perhaps even nod along, but it doesn’t quite register. The illusion of youth feels infinite, untouched by time and an endless road. Then a few years slip quietly by. Life.

Worst career advice I have ever received was to just put my head down and keep working hard. Reality is that perception and relationships matter way more for promotions than just hard work. Would love to hear what bad advice you have received through your careers

Primer on Sellside vs Buyside in Finance

Sweetgreen? The place where your salad gets stolen by ladies who show up in your Linkedin DMs the next day?

Many such cases

Buddy accidentally wrote “breast” instead of “best” in email to the recruiter but still ended up receiving an interview

Work life balance is only a real concept when you split it up into periods of your life. Your 20s and early 30s should be mostly work, and as you approach your 40s it should transition towards mostly life. The problem is when people try to achieve both at the same time.

if you want to be successful in your 40s, forget about work life balance in your 20s and 30s.

“I worked at Lehman’s risk management department. Here is how you manage your subprime mortgage exposure as a bank”

Becoming increasingly clear that the dating culture in NYC is broken

Fantastic show by the guys at @AcquiredFM tonight in NYC. Favorite guest by far was Jamie Dimon. Loved hearing him talk about building long term business value rather than just maximizing accounting numbers today

Many such cases

Scenes from the Palantir office in NYC. Protesters are literally blocking employees from entering the building and doing their work. Something incredibly ironic about unemployed people telling the employed to quit their job. $PLTR

Reminder that her vote counts the same as yours.

If you are planning to work in investment banking, I highly recommend you read through this thread first. The job requires enormous sacrifice and is mostly grunt work at the junior level. Nothing wrong with that, but best to go in with eyes wide open.

The predictive value of discounted cash flows.

This girl is $400K in credit card debt but refuses to stop traveling in the name of seeing the world. Social media has totally cooked our minds

Know someone who recently had a close friend pass away. They uploaded all their text conversations with this friend into AI and is now having it act as the lost friend. The AI has full context of the friendship due to the text messages uploaded. Society is not ready for AI.

I have seen lots of the day in the life in finance videos and this might be the worst