I seriously bet you could fire 95% of these employees, and the users wouldn’t be able to tell any difference in the service.

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.
There aren’t many statements you can make which have been true for the past thirty days, but here are three:
Good God, what boring markets these have become. No wonder everyone has lost interest in the world of crypto. It also explains why assets seem so “stuck” right now, since we can’t really get a fire under the bear market until crypto support totally fails.


For what it’s worth, this day completely sucked, and I ended it with the highest cash position of the entire year – 40%+ – with a mere 18 positions. This virtually guarantees a historic crash on Monday.
This is truly one for the books: Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB). I’ve written about this many times before, such as here, three months ago. Just look at what a beautiful path SIVB followed from precisely one year ago (literally, to the day) to now, which represents about a $500 drop, or 70%. Amazing!!!
