Content Warning: This is not a post about the manufactured housing industry. This is a post about option pricing. Readers looking for the usual crap can click here, here or here. In the fifth and sixth seasons of The Crown, now-King Charles is played by Dominic West. This causes cognitive dissonance. Dominic West is …
There are two reasons I regret not having served in the military. The first is that military service gives people license to bend the English language. Why say ‘A’, ‘F’ or ‘R’, if you can say alpha, foxtrot or Romeo? The -FU acronyms, like SNAFU, FUBAR and TARFU, are like rhyming slang with free beer …
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An Ordinary Day for a Manager of a Manufactured Housing Community Everyone should at least flip through Edward Tufte’s books once. The first book that Tufte published is called The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The second is called Envisioning Information and the third is Visual Explanations. They never get boring, but they all come …
TABLE I According to Websters, a blog post is an entry or article that is written on a blog. It can include content in the form of text, photos, infographics, videos, or deep-fakes. Chez Dirt Lease, a post is an insightful one-to-two thousand word essay that views consciousness, history, sex and the rest of the …
Like Elon Musk, Frank Rolfe skates close to madness. He is brilliant at what he does. He has popularized the industry and catalyzed many of the changes that happened over the past decade and a half. Many of us owe our business success to him. I chatted with him once in an elevator and enjoyed …
Chat GPT – write a paragraph about Goldman Sachs as a squid: Goldman Sachs is a well-known investment bank and financial services company, often referred to as “The Squid” due to its logo resembling a squid. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has grown to become one of the most influential and profitable financial institutions in …
When my eighth-grade biology teacher asked our class if any of us remembered the word for white blood cells, a guy named Jonathan Harvey raised his hand and shouted, ‘Homocyte!’ The word he was half-remembering was phagocyte, which is a type of white blood cell. If you trace the Greek root of that term, it …
In college, a friend of mine wrote a story about a kingdom in the northern latitudes ruled by a queen: This was no Snow Queen or Queen of Hearts; nevertheless, she was every inch a queen, and to prove it, she had her own castle with gargoyles, turrets, parapets, towers and what not. The kingdom’s …
The Hainan Island Incident of 2001 is overshadowed by events that happened later that year, but when it transpired, it set the then-still-nascent Internet abuzz. An American spy plane, which had been flying over a disputed section of the South China Sea, collided with a Chinese fighter jet and was forced to make an emergency …