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[@__paleologo](/creator/twitter/__paleologo)
"The Big Short is a fantasy about being a hedge fund manager with no drawdown limit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1976069523913724130) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-08T23:37Z 47.3K followers, 518.1K engagements


"I am thinking of writing a note full of spite and thunder about the practice of intersecting stock characteristic (i.e. let us select stocks that are high mtmo high profitability and low short interest). Its a popular practice. You should not do it. Ill probably restrict circulation of the note"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979212187202683372) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-17T15:45Z 47.3K followers, 36K engagements


"Of interest (maybe). I was asked by a candidate portfolio manager what are the qualities I consider essential to be a good PM. It's a good question. There's the analytical answer that goes over individual qualities based on experience analysis of past transcripts etc. which is important and that of course doesn't belong in X. But there is also the synthetic answer. Jim Simons said over and over that he had good taste in selecting people (which did not prevent him from cycling through Baum Ax Cardona etc. before getting to Berlekamp); and that the people he hired had also good taste. The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979912873766776982) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T14:09Z 47.3K followers, 35.3K engagements


"Scott Hey HEY. its great to be a quant (whatever it means) if you like the subject matter. But if you want to maximize your personal Sharpe Ratio (and you should) Scott is not wrong. You have useful skills so you can maximize for passion. Dont be a conformist. Dont please your parents Dont live someone elses dream of a dream job. Be adaptable. Dont be a jerk. Money wont be a problem guaranteed and you will be living regret-free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979983816526643692) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T18:51Z 47.3K followers, 48.6K engagements


"Alexander Gerko has a real sense of humor and is sadly missed here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1980071746175954981) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-20T00:41Z 47.3K followers, 19.9K engagements


"My firm is seeking a quantitative researcher working inside a L/S investment team. Its a great opportunity to interact with an amazing portfolio manager and their team. As an added bonus you will also interact with my team (quantitative researcher) and with many colleagues in one of the most dynamic and collaborative work environments in the hedge fund world. Just in case two points: X. Not reporting to me but to a PM. In their team. But working also with my team. Were not siloed. X. Apply directly. Please dont DM or email me. Doing so wont help your case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1974087138686775614) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-03T12:20Z 47.3K followers, 43K engagements


"Goals. The goal of Physics and Engineering is to explain and design real-world problems. The goal of mathematics is insert your favorite statement here but not *that*. Economists (relevant to finance jobs--these are usually theoreticians) are simply not very successful or effective modelers and are overly obsessed with formalism and techniques. Do any of these things long enough and your brain's plasticity will be mostly gone and you'll think in terms of linear cities and network economies etc. Their *goal* is get tenure. In a sentence an above-average fraction of pure mathematicians and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979944457102340406) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T16:15Z 47.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@mean_field_zane @Lib_Development @SamTheMostBest @humphilomath @karpathy @dwarkesh_sp Econ/Math major. Probably under XX. I'll take my chances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979951945126224332) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T16:45Z 47.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@mean_field_zane @Lib_Development @SamTheMostBest @humphilomath @karpathy @dwarkesh_sp Congrats. I won't pull my ranks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979952423860056363) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T16:46Z 47.3K followers, XXX engagements


"YYZ🛬LGA After X hr door-to-door (flight was cancelled) filling PM candidate feedbacks doing emails & slack it's now time to finally start working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1976436347591372986) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-09T23:55Z 47.3K followers, 5943 engagements


"On my deck: quantitative agent-based models. Keeping my expectations low. But not zero. Link in reply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1977930418767724649) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-14T02:52Z 47.3K followers, 17.7K engagements


"@SamTheMostBest @gfc4 DM with details I only vaguely follow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979268267668619456) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-17T19:28Z 47.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@humphilomath @karpathy @dwarkesh_sp I really don't regret studying Physics. Engineering applied Prob+Statistics would have been fine too. I can only think what would have happened to my brain had I majored in Economics or Mathematics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979937628989296990) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T15:48Z 47.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Serious people win Nobel prizes. Unserious people win "x of the year" awards. Like "Time Person of the year" or "Financial Time Business Person of the year" or the worst of them all "Quant of the year""  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1976855222153888171) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-11T03:39Z 47.3K followers, 16.3K engagements


"It's a little less advanced than Elements of Statistical Learning (e.g. no RKHS or supervised PCA) but it's a live text currently in its 2nd edition and having fewer topics is not bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1979921361947504870) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-19T14:43Z 47.3K followers, 36.3K engagements


"all the ones on @yogappygappy plus a bunch of French Italian and Germans. It ends up being a very long list. A small subset of my favorites that I reread all the time contains Dante and the Italian mystics of the XIIIC the Homeric author 2/3 of the Bible Leopardi Montale Cavafy Stevens Eliot Carson Zagajewski Milosz Szymborska Borges. I read very few novels. My relationship to non-fiction is utilitarian. I admire essays but don't really fall in love with them except for those of Borges and Calvino"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1980097115503087866) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-20T02:21Z 47.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Common decency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1980132269412282410) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-20T04:41Z 47.3K followers, 18.7K engagements


"My former PhD advisor is traveling and as a consequence I am free for dinner on Thursday after the talk at Stanford. Let me know if around. Otherwise I will go to good ol Evvia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/__paleologo/status/1980468224480383114) [@__paleologo](/creator/x/__paleologo) 2025-10-21T02:56Z 47.3K followers, 9354 engagements