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  • Skillshare Class Update
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 11th, 2011 at 3:01 pm, Comments: 0

    Tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7PM EST I will be holding a Skillshare class at the Wix lounge here in NYC. I’ll be talking about applied behavioral finance, or to put it in a less academic light, how to think like a hedge fund manager. You can find the description of the class here. I opened [...]

  • Twitter Lowers The Hammer!
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 11th, 2011 at 4:11 am, Comments: 0

    An interesting, unfortunate, and inevitable thing happened to the Twitter ecosystem today, Twitter has decided that it will wrap all links with the t.co link shortener, regardless of whether it has already been shortened or not. You can find their announcement to Twitter developers here. This move by Twitter has wide ranging effects for its business, [...]

  • What Steve Jobs Taught Me
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 6th, 2011 at 4:20 pm, Comments: 0

    There aren’t enough superlatives to explain who Steve Jobs was and what he meant to the world, so it’s useless trying to sum it up. Rather, I’d like to say a word about what Jobs taught me specifically. It’s something I recite to myself every day, and it permeates everything I do in life. People don’t [...]

  • “Destruction Leads to a Very Rough Road, But it Also Breeds Creation”
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 29th, 2011 at 3:55 pm, Comments: 0

    No one will confuse Anthony Kedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers for an economics PHD, but tangled inside some pretty out there lyrics he’s written over the past two decades is some real truth about where this country has been and where it’s going. Kedis has been witness to the rise and fall of [...]

  • Why Main Stream Financial Media Is Largely Worthless
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 28th, 2011 at 7:44 pm, Comments: 0

    In some ways, I’m happy that main stream financial media continues to be completely bereft of any value or understanding of how markets actually work. The truth is, the more suckers there are out there, the more inefficiency there is in the market for us to take advantage of. All these little lemmings walking off [...]

  • Media: Talking Investment Management, Social Finance and Estimize with Zack Miller
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 28th, 2011 at 6:42 pm, Comments: 0

    A few weeks ago I had the chance to sit down with Zack Miller (@NewRulesInvest) to discuss my journey through the investment management world, my view on social finance, and our vision at Estimize. I want to thank Zack for being a great host and for what he is doing within the investment management community [...]

  • Facebook’s Open Graph and the Curation of Your Image
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 25th, 2011 at 10:53 pm, Comments: 0

    I thought hard about what I could add to the conversation following Facebook’s open graph announcement at F8. There are obviously many thoughts I would like to share, but many don’t add anything to the conversation. There was one thing that really stuck home with me which I wanted to share my thoughts about. Up [...]

  • Why Everyone Hates The Millionaire Tax
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 19th, 2011 at 4:06 pm, Comments: 0

    Our comically clueless president, Barak Obama, recently released his plan for a “millionaire’s tax”, or what he’s calling the “Buffet tax”. Without completely tearing up the entire tax system, which should probably be done, the millionaire tax is most likely the next best solution for raising more revenue from a group of citizens quickly capturing a [...]

  • The Taboo Topic
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 18th, 2011 at 3:40 pm, Comments: 0

    Talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and maybe Israel in general in the blogosphere is undoubtedly THE taboo topic. Religion, race, sex, money, and so on are all par for the course these days. But step foot inside the realm of Middle Eastern politics and people can’t even agree which way is up or down let [...]

  • Social is a Layer, Not a Destination
    Posted by Leigh Drogen on September 14th, 2011 at 7:38 pm, Comments: 0

    Facebook is on a quest to be the entire internet for many people. I’m not kidding. I will not recount my feelings about Facebook over the past few years now, you all know the progression of my attitude towards them as a platform and an investment. If you don’t, search the archives for Facebook. I [...]