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Revisiting the Square IPO

Unicorns are overvalued.The general trend was obvious for a while: the emergence a glut of companies just clearing the $1 billion valuation mark with special conditions, funds downgrading or writing off their private company...

A Counsyl Retrospective

It started when I was thinking about how technology has failed. Or, to be more accurate, where it has failed. Post-Square, I had approached my job hunt slightly differently than in years past. Opportunity and...

Citibank's Terrible, Customer-Hostile Security Measures

This is going to be a rant about how horrible Citibank's customer experience is, particularly around their security measures that's meant to protect their users. I'm still in disbelief on how misguided their systems are. Of course, I didn't open a Citibank account because they had an...

Review: Covered Calls Made Easy

A good friend of mine recommended this light reader a couple of weeks ago: Covered Calls Made Easy: Generate Monthly Cash Flow by Selling Options It’s a fairly short book, written and published recently, about how to sell covered call options in the stock market. Essentially: * You sell options to someone else to buy...

Review: The Millionaire Next Door

The Millionaire Next Door is not a particularly subtle book. Published first in 1996, it draws a thesis based on hundreds of interviews of America’s millionaires, and beats it over the heads of its...