Wall Street & Trading
I just finished Karen Ho’s “Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street”. It tied together various experiences I had daytrading from 1998-2002 and 2006-2007 and the recruitment sessions that big banks...
View ArticleGo Where They Ain't, Don't Follow Your Passion
Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs says that, after working with people who have the dirtiest jobs in America, they’re happier than most people. And they’re getting rich by going where everyone else wasn’t;...
View ArticleMy Chipotle Theory
Eating out is expensive, especially if you have a few drinks. The nicer restaurants run even higher in terms of price. I’ve been able to go to some very nice restaurants for special occasions, but...
View ArticleForce Multipliers
Ever since I was in the Army and learned about force multipliers, it’s been a term with magical meaning to me. When I arrived at my Special Forces Group to begin my assignment as an intel dude...
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Eudaimonia Versus Existing in a Childproofed Society
We live within a culture where negative feedback is purposefully avoided. You can’t “dislike” on Facebook, you can only “+1″ on Google+. Yelp was rumored to have strong-armed companies into paying to...
View ArticleComm Lab (Video & Audio), Week 1: On Copyright
Ever since I downloaded my first MP3 in my freshman year of college in 1996, amazed at how small the file was (I think it was a Shaggy track), I don’t really think much has changed in the music...
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On #OccupyWallStreet
For last night’s Red Burns – Applications class, one of the group presentations addressed #OccupyWallStreet. I don’t usually speak in large groups anyway, mainly because I really, really hate fighting...
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Stunting a Renaissance
An underlying theme in my projects at school has been thinking about potential versus actual. And one common question that people ask when my classmates introduce their project ideas is, “Will this be...
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A Fake Review from The Economist: A Review of Galapag.us
[This was one of our initial assignments for our ITP thesis projects. Come up with a pie-in-the-sky review of your thesis idea.] [FAKE] The Economist: A (Fake) Review of Galapag.us Reputation and...
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Opening Up Galapag.us for Alpha
My thesis project for NYU-ITP has been Galapag.us, a tribe and ecosystem for promoting the idea that we should be radically open and transparent with our data so that we can form and share metrics to...
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