Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

What Will Make VR Happen?

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With the market so sedate, I’m not feeling compelled to crank out content just to make sure there is a new post every few hours. ZeroHedge combats this by basically writing articles about ANY kind of bad news going on (nuclear meltdowns, terrorist attacks, shootings, what have you – – just to break the boredom of the market sucking out loud). I’m not going to play that game, though. If the markets get exciting, great, I’ll write more. In the meantime, you already know where I stand, so I’m going to write about something else.

Most Slopers know that I introduced my first virtual reality product, SocialTrade VR, earlier this year. It got a nice write-up in Barron’s, and I had a ball putting it together.

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Blogging from the Back of Uber

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There are two principal forces that motivate me in my life: (1) my family (2) Slopers, the latter of which is like a much larger version of my family, except that I’ve never really met them.

The former force is compelling me to travel almost nonstop from Friday through Monday. I won’t go into details, but I will have never spent so much time in an airplane in my life. The latter force – – you – – should get some content, which is why, even in the back of an Uber, I am typing this post at this very moment to fulfill my quasi-familial duty while listening to an endless stream of 80s musics from the radio my driver is playing.

The market’s dynamism has been kind of beaten out of it. I’m hoping the forthcoming earnings season will shake things up, preferably to the downside (of course, the potency of “hope” over the past eight years has been, shall we say, spotty). The Dow Jones Composite is, umm, just kind of sitting there.

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