Monkey Business Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle - John Rolfe and Peter Troob

This books seems to be as much IB gospel as M.Lewis' Liars Poker. Perhaps my expectation for this book were a bit high because my friends built it up, but it seems a little weaker than previous banking literature. Perhaps this is because you can only convey so much misery through text. This book walks a thin line of suffering for a paycheck so it cannot turn into a sob-story without turning into one of these.

The more amusing realization about this book and the way by which I came to read it is the following: everyone who recommended it after reading took an IB job and is as misearble as the characters in the book.

5ives: Banking books I've read

1. Liar's Poker
2. Monkey Business
3. When Genius Failed
4. Ugly Americans *
   
5. Den of Thieves *

* denotes books not read yet

5ives: 5 awsome open source/freeware programs

1. Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird
2. Dia
3. Emacs
4. Winamp
5. BSPlayer
   

5ives: 5 excused I've used to avoid going to the gym

1. Intoxication
2. Laziness
3. Too much work to do
4. Golf
5. Laziness
   

Gone Baby Gone

I'm a movie critic by no means but I felt this movies to be a little drawn out and little 'scattered' towards the end.

5ives: 5 blogs I like to read

• Joel on Software
• The Leveraged Sellout
• Freakanomics
• Coding Horror
• Brownstoner
  

5ives: Things I do like about the subway

• the 'entertainment'
• successfully racial profiling that results in me getting a seat: guessing which Chinese people get off at Canal/Grand, yuppies and hippies at Park Slope and anyone with a flat bill hat between Prospect and Church
• utterly lost tourists
• getting a running start and shoving everyone into 4/5
• early morning BlackBerry email productivity and a round of BrickBreaker
  

5ives: Things I don't like about the subway

• running nose and no tissues. I end up combating snot for 45minutes. Sometimes I ask strangers for tissues. Rarely does anyone ever take pity.
• dudes in expensive suits on the 4/5. If I had a $5k suit, it'd cab it to client meetings
• the riff-raff
  
• people who have not yet adjusted to the daily violation of their 'personal space'
• people who stare back, thats just uncomfortable
  

I'm starting 5ives

Much like Merlin at 5ives.com, I'll be posting some 5ives here: Random musings, with five thoughts at a time. These mostly happen as an expansion of thoughts I have on the subway. Also, I've read somewhere that bullet points give credibility.

You can see them all here (via search)

Made To Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Made to Stick

some really good ideas in here about all the common traits of ideas that worked out.

I'd like to have kept a summary of this.

will post back with findings