Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram

Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram by JumpCrisscross on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:12PM (#16987231)

Same thing happened with Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker [1]. Written as a parody. Now distributed to junior bankers as a handbook of hustle and an advertisement of the good life promised.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Poker

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Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram by rich_ard on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:15PM (#16987254)

I have had scenes from Glengarry Glen Ross played in sales meetings dozens of times.

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Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram by tzahola on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:24PM (#16987360)

And were you always closing?

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Re:Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram by YorkshireSeason on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:50PM (#16987589)

It's misleading to say it was written as a parody.

To quote from the Wikipedia article: "semi-autobiographical book [...] describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s".

Before reading Liar's Poker I was ignorant about, and extremely hostile to the financial industry, and the book brought about complete change. The book is at best ambivalent about high finance, but clearly also glamourises the industry.

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