## Metadata - Author: [[daniel-lefferts|Daniel Lefferts]] - Full Title:: My Year of Finance Boys - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02/14/my-year-of-finance-boys/?mc_cid=32fffa539c&mc_eid=2827fdd6e9 - Read date:: [[2024-12-31]] ## Highlights > the kind of person who lives in your memory only as a pleasing, gleaming outline, devoid of eyes. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jgdpd2zwhqqp6egzhvb9nwew)) > On our first date he took me to a “speakeasy” in the Village, and I put that word in quotes because the whole bar was in quotes: conspicuously nondescript entrance, bartenders dressed in vaguely steampunk outfits pouring ingredients from brown glass medicine bottles, hazardously dim lights and lurid red accents meant to evoke, I supposed, the glamour of Prohibition. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jgdpjycj22xwpwjxqv0w2s3s)) > He was hungry for book recommendations, though it became clear that his literary tastes tended toward the subgenre of TEDx: Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Yuval Noah Harari. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jgdpkhjx19cbfdm8ej6h7t28)) > Fictional tears are no less desperate than real ones; pretending has a sadness all its own. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jgdpx46yy3hwq2nf3kmqwkkh))