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.
Timothy Gump
I read Quora every day, because I love learning new things, and I stumbled upon this article about an eccentric and utterly accidental businessman by the name of Timothy Dexter. This guy was honestly like the Forrest Gump of the 18th century. Here’s how the article reads:
He lacked any formal education and still managed to make a fortune with a series of horrible business decisions that—because Cthulhu or God or whatever smiled on his soul— turned out to be extremely profitable!
(more…)I Am Become Death
Earnings Focus: Alphabet
Here is the third (and I think most exciting) big tech earnings announcement coming on Tuesday afternoon: Alphabet (known by 99.9999999% of thinking people as simply Google, which is also kind of suggested by the GOOGL ticker symbol).
