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Zvi Mowshowitz also worked at Jane Street Capital and I found his take on SBF's rise and fall pretty compelling and detailed. Interesting how SBF seemed to alm

Zvi Mowshowitz also worked at Jane Street Capital and I found his take on SBF's rise and fall pretty compelling and detailed. Interesting how SBF seemed to almost be running around in a sort of dissociative state. He was sorta aware that there was a whole world out there with consequences but he just completely ignored it. Screw the consequences, just kept doing whatever dumb stuff he wanted to do.

jeffjobs4000 3y ago
Something most of the think pieces, and interviews with Michael Lewis, discount is just how geeked out on amphetamines this guy was.
- chrisweekly 3y ago
  not to nitpick, but at least in my experience, "geeked out" is a strange turn of phrase here
  - tanjtanjtanj 3y ago
    "Geeking out" can mean to overshare or obsess about one's geeky passions but it's also used to mean someone who's tweaking on speed. The drug-using definition predates the nerd-culture definition from what I can tell (the Urban Dictionary entry is older for one thing).
    - voltaireodactyl 3y ago
      Both predate the internet so that’s not entirely unimpeachable evidence but I can confirm as a first hand source :)
  - MrRolleyes 3y ago
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bugglebeetle 3y ago
> He was sorta aware that there was a whole world out there with consequences but he just completely ignored it. Well, this is bog-standard psychopathy. It’s not really that interesting. If he had been born into a lower station in life and gone around doing check-fraud or something, no one would really care. The SBF story is just really one about how class and connections act as an insane multiplier for unrestrained criminality.
iwillremember 3y ago
Do you have a link to ZM's writing on SBF?
- A_D_E_P_T 3y ago
  The book review in OP: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/book-review-going-infinite https://thezvi.substack.com/p/book-review-going-infinite And his recap of the FTX situation: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/sadly-ftx https://thezvi.substack.com/p/sadly-ftx Zvi is a really good blogger, just in general. Hyper-prolific and extremely intelligent.

jeffjobs4000 3y ago

Something most of the think pieces, and interviews with Michael Lewis, discount is just how geeked out on amphetamines this guy was.

chrisweekly 3y ago
not to nitpick, but at least in my experience, "geeked out" is a strange turn of phrase here
- tanjtanjtanj 3y ago
  "Geeking out" can mean to overshare or obsess about one's geeky passions but it's also used to mean someone who's tweaking on speed. The drug-using definition predates the nerd-culture definition from what I can tell (the Urban Dictionary entry is older for one thing).
  - voltaireodactyl 3y ago
    Both predate the internet so that’s not entirely unimpeachable evidence but I can confirm as a first hand source :)
- MrRolleyes 3y ago
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bugglebeetle 3y ago

> He was sorta aware that there was a whole world out there with consequences but he just completely ignored it. Well, this is bog-standard psychopathy. It’s not really that interesting. If he had been born into a lower station in life and gone around doing check-fraud or something, no one would really care. The SBF story is just really one about how class and connections act as an insane multiplier for unrestrained criminality.

iwillremember 3y ago

Do you have a link to ZM's writing on SBF?

A_D_E_P_T 3y ago
The book review in OP: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/book-review-going-infinite https://thezvi.substack.com/p/book-review-going-infinite And his recap of the FTX situation: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/sadly-ftx https://thezvi.substack.com/p/sadly-ftx Zvi is a really good blogger, just in general. Hyper-prolific and extremely intelligent.