About Me
This blog is all about me.
Everything I do here is to make me feel better about myself, or is my misguided attempt to influence someone, anyone, to believe the things that I want them to. The reason I want to make them believe what I want them to is I want to influence them to action that I desire.
So you should know something about me.
I am an entrepreneur. I built an Internet business from nothing to something that supports me well.
I was a lawyer with experience in finance. I worked in a firm in lower Manhattan that would legitimately be included in the term “Wall Street law firm.” I served as lawyer in deals involving hundreds of millions of dollars. When I flew into some minor city like Minneapolis, I was greeted as the New York lawyer; as in “the New York lawyer is finally here.” When I arrived in Michigan I overheard the line workers say, “the suits have arrived, the company is being sold”. They were often right.
I went to one of the top ten law schools in the country. I did very well. Before that I was an underachiever. I was lower half of the class in a high school so undistinguished that the guidance counselors told me not one student from the beginning of time ever gained a slot in Princeton.
My high school record was dismal. I went to a third or forth rate college. I went out into the world and worked for stupid people. I was smarter than the people I worked for but I had very badly worked the system. Poor grades in a poor high school and a nothing college leads to a pretty sad job. I suffered for six years.
Then I went to law school (a field I had a natural advantage in as I thought like a lawyer). I could not get into one of the top ten national law schools as my college transcript was poor. My first try applications were to the big name schools only; they all rejected me. The second try a year later, my near perfect LSAT and years out of school helped me get into a good regional school. I ended up in the top ten students at the end of the first year. I transferred to a bigger name national law school. I ended up on Wall Street and was quite proud of myself.
I have no formal training in economics or finance, other than an undergrad course. Of course neither does Obama or McCain.