Yikes, look at this free-fall. And I thought people were dumb when *I* was in school!
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.
Going Infinite Book Review
On Wednesday night, I just happened to stumble upon The Big Short on television, and, blue-blooded bear that I am, I simply couldn’t stop watching it. I’ve seen it before, obviously, but watching the film again back my bear juices all hot and bothered, but I stopped it about twenty minutes before the end, because I always get extra-ticked-off when they review how basically all the bad guys got away with it.
I then turned my attention toward a book that I had just received, and which had only hit the shelves that very day, which was Going Infinite, the book about Samuel Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall. It occurred to me it must be Michael Lewis day, because right on the heels of watching a movie based on one of his many books, I started reading a new one by the same guy.
(more…)Alden Pond
I first learned of Lyn Alden last year, and my first impression of her – – in my typical puerfile, immature, superficial way – – was my amazement at the sound of her voice. She makes the whole “Elizabeth Holmes voice” thing seem utterly trivial. You can get a quick sense of this by listening to just a couple of minutes of this interview with her and another woman.
Something is Not the Same
Even as a young lad, I was drawn to dark movies. My friends would puzzle over this, wondering why I didn’t want to see the latest blockbuster. “Don’t you want to be entertained?”
Actually, no. I want to be changed. I want to leave the theatre feeling different about myself or about the world in some way which persists. I’m not there to be distracted.
I was reminded of this as I was reading the Elon book, about which I wrote an extensive review yesterday. The book changed me. Yes, I learned a lot about the man’s life and times, but more important to me personally, I finished the book a different person than the person who started reading it a week earlier. Above all, I felt bolder. If you could use some of that, maybe you could give the book a read as well.
Elon Musk Biography Review
Tesla, and Elon Musk, are no strangers to the Slope of Hope. I first wrote about Tesla over a decade ago in this post, in which I praised my new Model S (170,500 miles ago………) Just to prove I’m not an always-negative sourpuss, the last sentence I wrote in that lengthy review was “Elon has another winner on his hands.”, and God knows that was the case.
I have composed many dozens of posts about Elon and Tesla in the years since, and my own family’s financial well-being is partly tied to the man now. Thus, I was very excited to see famed biographer Walter Isaacson was coming out with his Elon Musk biography, which I pre-ordered months ago. I’ve been reading it every night since it arrived a week ago, and I have some things to say about it.
