More words, less code from quants
LinkedIn often gets derided. Somehow it’s become the home of that motivational post, which usually revolves around the seven traits of successful people. I’ve never quite ascertained, why are there only seven traits for successful people. Why not, for example eight traits, or perhaps nine?
The day of a successful person, according to these posts, involves some sort of masochistic schedule, waking up at 4am every day, as a prelude to running till your legs drop off and pumping iron, doing deadlifts with a bar loaded up with the weight of the world like a latter day Atlas, before consuming a breakfast of some inedible and yet inexcusably healthy food, before catching the morning train to work, and stumbling into your office dazed and confused, before 6am.
The work day consists of sitting in state of contentment motivating your colleagues, whilst simultaneously becoming a philosophical genius and reading self-help books, musing on what good you can do in the world. There are no lunch breaks, merely nutrition pauses, where you gulp down kale which has been liquidized, with a side of sushi and quinoa. There are no setbacks, there are no barriers, everything is some sort of miraculous mission you waltz through. Ok, I think you get the general picture about LinkedIn motivational posts. Strangely, none appear to point out that perhaps the route to success isn’t taking yourself this seriously, and everyone basically just muddles though in practice (just some more successfully than others).
Obviously, I’m being harsh, because by and large, LinkedIn has some great content, it certainly isn’t all unrealistic motivational posts. I’ve found a lot of interesting posts on a whole multitude of topics, related to financial markets and careers. One recent post, I found on LinkedIn, was a link to an interview with Goldman Sachs CEO, David Solomon which was posted by Igor Haperin. The gist of the interview was that Solomon increasingly finding it more difficult to find people with a particular skill: writing....
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