Newmark's Door

Go west--way west--young man

"You Don’t Need To Be A Billionaire To Buy A Beautiful Retreat In New Zealand".

It'll help if you like sheep and cows. 

"27 Successful People Reveal The Things They Can't Live Without"

From Tylenol PM to a "thick skin".

Awwww . . .

"29 Easy And Adorable Things To Make For Babies".

"How to Survive a Busted Cruise Ship"

Some tips I hope you don't ever need.

"6 Design Flaws That Annoy You Every Day (And Why They Exist)"

Yeah, there are reasons. 

But they don't help much.

"Too Many Axioms?"

Eric Falkenstein provides a one-minute guide to some of the key ideas in the recent psychology literature. Could save a lot of time. 

"Income At Home, Herbalife, and the $8 billion pyramid"

An evergreen story: beware of claims that you can "Start making money on your own terms."

"How to Drive a Tank"

"There's a life lesson in this: When you're in a tank, things don't happen to you. You happen to them."

"Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns"

Column in the New York Times tries to defend some nominalizations. It's interesting, but it fails.

"Curriculum Vitae"

The Epicurean Dealmaker provides an interesting look at the career path of I-Bankers.

I have written at length as to how (and why) a hopeful supplicant might enter the grand and glorious vocation of investment banking, and I have dilated at even greater length on what grizzled old veterans such as myself do once we have achieved our cushy sinecures therein. But I have distinctly overlooked the steps by and through which an eager young tadpole fresh from the leafy groves of academe transforms him or herself into a hoary old bullfrog barking orders and swilling scotch from a gilded lily pad.