Re:Wall Street Stole My Smart Friends
by tphyahoo on Sunday March 30, 2008 @09:04AM
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I worked in finance here and there.
There are a lot of smart people there, but also many people with advanced degrees that are more book smart than street smart. So they sell book-smart snake oil, or help others do that indirectly via a stable of credentialed eggheads. (Cf Nassim Taleb on derivatives shenanigans.)
Street smart is a lot more important than book smart on wall street.
There are a lot of smart people there, but also many people with advanced degrees that are more book smart than street smart. So they sell book-smart snake oil, or help others do that indirectly via a stable of credentialed eggheads. (Cf Nassim Taleb on derivatives shenanigans.)
Street smart is a lot more important than book smart on wall street.
Too bad I'm so book smart :)