I was just in Boston for a couple of days for a family function.

It had been about a decade since I was last there.

I gotta tell you, I really like Boston a lot. I used to go quite often right after college because I had a lot of buddies who moved there.

Nothing but fond memories.

Anyway, I stayed in Beacon Hill this weekend, which as it turns out is a beautiful part of the city. A ton of bars, restaurants and shops. Right next to the park. Right by the water.

I highly encourage you to take the family and check it out.

So in the afternoon I met a lot of people who I had never met before. Everyone was super nice.

We got into talking about how things were early in my career. I had gone to Catholic school from the age of 4 until I was 22, when I graduated from Fairfield University.

Then came Wall Street. Like 90% Jewish, from what I could tell. I had only known a couple Jewish folks my entire life, until that moment.

I wasn’t the smartest of the bunch. I certainly wasn’t the one with the most connections. In fact, I didn’t have any. My family wasn’t into the stock market, like the parents of a lot of my friends were from college. Remember I went to school right next to Greenwich, CT – the hedge fund capital of the world, which is not too far from New York City, the financial capital of the world.

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