As I mentioned earlier, I’m co-teaching a course in applied game theory at Harvard with my friend Andrew Woods. We have two sections of ten students each. We’re splitting up the teaching (12 classes each). I had my first class yesterday. It’s a solid group this year. I’m looking forward to it.
Things are a bit chaotic in my apartment at the moment. There’s no hot water, so I’ve been experimenting with cold showers. This has to be better than coffee.
I played an hour and a half of tennis yesterday. I’m worried that Patrik could actually beat me on the golf. He’s seems incredibly focused there.
We are at $1.53 to the Euro now. We’re all going broke and we don’t even know it. In Martin Amis’ book, London Fields, he has a line something like, “What happens when everyone’s a thief? We hadn’t though of that.” In financial markets these days, it’s more like, What happens when everyone’s broke? Scary world.. things that are supposed to go up go down and everything else goes down as well. You can see I’m not running good.
Not too much poker lined up in next two months…. six days of big live cash, no tournaments.
Brandon
March 17th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Well things were bad, but there’s blood in the streets now with this Bear Sterns “buy out.” If the Fed’s motivation was to find the bottom, their doing a heck of a job. My thoughts were to stay in dollar denominated commodities as a hedge against the falling dollar. But at this point, will even the commodities hold at these high levels? And I have some Euro denominated stocks - but all the stocks are going out with the bathwater.
Poker is starting to look like a better investment these days:)
July 30th, 2008 at 4:29 am
He Brandon,
not sure if you remember, but we were room mates back at harvard summer program in 96.. anyway, drop me a line since i can’t find your email address.
feel free to delete this comment as it’s off topic