Brit Marling, actor and producer, was featured in the Sunday New York Times Magazine today.
From the article:
The summer before her senior year, though, she took an internship at Goldman. If anything, it left her disillusioned. “I started to feel like it was all a bit of a fraud, all these charts and regressions and models.” She turned down the subsequent job offer...
Wow...she 'gets it' during a summer intern job at Goldman. What's taking everyone else so long? I can answer for myself. I worked in the business for twenty years before I realized predicting the future was crap, voodoo, of no value except to the predictors selling snake oil to the gullible (As I did. My only defense is that I didn't think it was snake oil at the time. I thought analysts, beta coefficients and standard deviations could help. I was wrong.)
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