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I met a former hedge fund risk analyst and risk manager around 4pm today. His name is Shiran. He now works as a corporate governance analyst. He’s 38 years old. He retired at the age of 35. He’s visited 178 of the world’s 193 sovereign countries, including several international conflict zones: Sudan, North Korea, etc. He holds (quadruple?) citizenship, and he speaks Italian, English and some Sinhalese. When I asked him where he was from, he said, “Everywhere… and nowhere”.

We spoke for over 1 1/2 hours. Believe it or not, he’s trained as an aeronautical engineer — his mathematics background was sufficient for him to cross-over into finance and be as successful as he is.

I’ll be seeing him again tomorrow morning. He’s leaving for London soon, but we’ll cross paths again in Chicago. We’ll be keeping in touch. He even offered to come by in the morning with breakfast food. He’s a terribly nice guy and a pleasure to talk to.

I just learned there’s a concert tomorrow sponsored by the GM Building not more than 100 yards away. The last artist they had perform was Toby Keith. The week before, it was Beyonce.