Why They Changed My Password Mid-Bonus-Meeting (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 9)

Coming Up Together with Ash

Ash and I visited the Singapore office. In between going to the night zoo, drinking fancy tea, and repeatedly turning down crab due to being the only vegetarians, I saw that my assistant trader was doing great in our normal time zones without me. He reminded me of me when I started trading, and, in turn, I was beginning to see glimmers of how I was aging like my own mentor. I was 26 whereas my mentor had been in his thirties or maybe forties with several kids, but, like him, I longed for the olden days. Markets were getting tougher, and bonuses were down across the board. The rest of the…

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