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Left a good life on Wall Street to build an even better one @goodsgrp; Gallivanting 🇮🇪🇺🇸in🇳🇱 @thejunteau @thegoodsletter
Fun day yesterday in New York. Took the Amtrak in from PA. Sat next to a US Army vet turned investor and podcaster and we chatted for an hour about life, family, and “escaping the matrix.” Had lunch at Hudson Yards with a couple ex Wall Street colleagues and close friends.…
A most heartfelt cheers to all of you out there trying to build a wonderful life for yourself and/or your family. Cheers to those who’ve somehow or other figured out, fell into, or were born into a way to spend large chunks of their days in natural or human environments while…
There is a superficial layer — an illusion — in life, and especially in the economy/markets, that “adults” are running things and that the things you see happening in business or government are the work of the smartest and most competent people among us.
Worked for a PE firm… $3B fund, middle market. We had grown EBITDA 3x in about 3 years, half organic and half via acquisition (and half of the acquisition EBITDA was synergies we executed). We go to sell the company and the MD asks us to project gross margins by projecting…
Latest update on my friend who’s still “jiggling” through his remote job 10 years in. He makes almost $300K w bonus now. Works tops 1 hour a day. Fully remote. Has not left his home/family for anything work-related since a 2022 conference he hasn’t stopped complaining about…
I’m now following 1,000 people on X. I want to thank this community for delivering such inspiring and insightful content for my consuming pleasure all these years.
Crime
In Greenpoint, a church destroyed. All from one tacky landlord and a lot of white paint.
New York City is the Salvador Dali of global cities. Mind-bending paradoxes everywhere. Extreme wealth and leisure. Extreme despair and poverty. Sharing the grid.
I’m walking down 7th Avenue in NYC and everything seems very peaceful… Then out of nowhere a deranged individual going through a clear schizophrenic episode starts screaming at the top of his lungs, running around and up to passersby, yelling the most insane jibberish and…
On a commuter platform right now. Went to sit down and this was on the seat.
Return to America Journal Entry #10 Had the best American meal in quite some time tonight. 10/10.
