There's Serious Math Behind Us!

Just found a remarkable blog called the The Physics of Finance. It has a couple of interesting papers on there with the math behind it supplied. Considering my math/ hard science background is not as strong as I would like it, this blog is a godsend. Mark Buchanan and his peers, I think are on to something about people and how they behave.

Social Media, Clouds, Stochastic Processes and Why I Love Them

This blog post will probably certify my status as a nerd and no, I have never watch a full Star Trek episode (did grow up devouring Star Gate SG-1 episodes though...). The reason why I am claiming nerd status stems from my love of social media, stochastic processes and clouds. 

In the words of Liz Lemon, "What the, what?!?!?!"

Fresh Pavement and Technology Converge

Let me preface this before I start jumping up and down in excitement shouting, "I saw this coming!!!!"

A Stellar and Debt Free Education

In today's world the quality of your education truly depends on your effort and not the amount of money one can throw around. In the words of Thomas L. Friedman, the world is flat. Here are some excellent examples:

• Got a hankering for a MBA from an elite school?
  Well here are five taped Columbia Business School classes with Prof. Greenwald. Who is one heck of a value investor and professor.
•  Think you got what it takes to hang with the real eggheads?
  MIT is opening up and providing classes online for free. If you want to earn their certificate which at the moment is dubbed MITx you can try this spring. They have yet to announce the pricing for your attempt but they claim the cost to be "marginal."
•  Think we're in middle of paradigm shift in communications and there has to be a better way to market than those annoying banner ads?
  Become a certified Inbound Marketing Professional at Inbound Marketing University for free. The University is hosted by HubSpot which is a Cambridge, MA based marketing firm that is a huge proponent of this suspicion.
•  Want to learn how to properly analyze your website traffic?
  Google offers an online certificate called Google Analytics Individual Qualification. The course material is free and web base but the test for the designation I believe is a mere 50 dollars. I can imagine fellow web nerds asking each other what they got on their IQ test.
• Are you a busy professional who loves finance?
  There is the mother of all designations called the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA for short). It is a self study course with three levels to pass. The first test is full day exam with two 120 multiple choice sections. The second is an equally long exam with a mixture of short answers and I believe multiple choice questions. Then the last exam is only 12 questions long. I tried the first level. Good luck. 

Happy Hunting,

LFMB

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The Right Wing Produces Something of Use?

Here's an interesting proposal and very capitalistic approach on how to help remedy the pit of despair commonly known as the housing market. It is a couple months old (dates back to September 1st 2011) but to my understanding still a valid argument.

Nerd Marketer Alert

This has been the reason for no new content in a while:

Certification Achievements

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SWOT Analysis

S.W.O.T.

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

Is the mantra for any business school student.  B school professors do an excellent job pummeling this thought process into their students' heads and probably for good reason. If you're a red blooded capitalist, it is a great method for analyzing just about any life situation. I rely on this mantra whenever dealing with anything that could have a material affect on my professional life.

Getting Schooled

In today's day and age where the best in his or her field DOES take all, it is extremely important to know how to market oneself.  I think these guys are onto something really intelligent and are in general just awesome. Enjoy the free words of wisdom!






How to Blog Effectively for Business (GF101)

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Things Content Creators Have to Ponder

This blog is still in the process of forming. There are numerous decisions to be made.

How do I market this? What do I write about? What should be the layout? What are my key words? What kind of media do I use? Who is my audience? How often do I add new content? Who can add content? What about formatting?  Etc.

Each answer having a distinct impact, each having a consequence that probably should be carefully gauged and considered before continuing forward. If I want this blog, this creation of mine, to actually have a chance of being noticed and utilized there are numerous actions needed to be taken.

The Explanation

Hello All,

Believe it is time to do some explaining. I have spent the last couple months doing what all recent finance grads do if they want to break into Wall Street and eventually become what Micheal Lewis dubbed a BSD (Big Swinging Dick, if my memory serves me correct), I got an entry level analyst job in the finance department of a sector that I wanted to dominate. After doing some looking around and doing some serious grunt work in this position, I noticed that I was not playing to my strengths. Also, the path that I was following in the hopes of garnering a similar level of success like the others who came before me and my peers is crumbling, no; rapidly decaying into irrelevance right before our eyes.

The Beginning, Bask in it!

We are living in interesting times. 


If you enjoy dramatics, hyperbole and other extensions of the the truth as much as any writer does, surely you scoffed at the opening remark for the lack of creativity demonstrated in the word choice. There are a plethora of words and expressions at my disposal that could have been easily utilized to convey a similar, if not almost identical meaning. Yet, I started this project with the a seemingly simple statement about our current situation. 


Please, let that marinade in your mind.


Think. Analyze. Comprehend. 
We are living in interesting times.  


Bask in it!

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