What’s the story behind your username?

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I know that this topic has come up before, but that was 4 years ago and a lot of members churn, so I thought I would revive. 

What’s the awesome story behind your WSO username?

Mine is based on the Kelly Criterion, a formula which maximizes the mean expected return on investment over extended periods of time provided a given probability and an informational “edge.” Kelly is also a name that’s important to me.

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I really wanted to work in technology PE and I love shitty puns.

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

damn, I thought you were a hot chick named Kelly.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I had Isaiah_53_5 tattooed on my right shoulder in Hebrew in 2010, then when I signed up for WSO I used the same moniker. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Isaiah 53:5

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I've been on the NYC subway many times with a wifebeater on and a skateboard and these Hassidic Jews start talking to me in this other language and I don't talk their talk and they don't speak English, but they are happy to read Hebrew off of my skin, even though the verse is somewhat controversial. Isaiah 53 is about the suffering servant and Catholics and Christians generally believe it is a prophesy of Jesus, but Jews generally believe it means something different. I don't think they read Isaiah 53:5 in the synagogues. It is the 'forbidden chapter'. In Catholicism, Isaiah 53:5 is read every Good Friday before Easter. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Paul Volcker was the single greatest force to catalyze 40 years of economic prosperity, and

quantitative easing and the massive inflation it creates (which doesn’t show up in CPI) is already starting to obliterate our country. Our generation will bear the heavy burden of the trillions of dollars printed by the Fed over the past decade coupled with a now unsustainable national deficit.

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Nuggets

My man I really like me some nuggetz

Like CFA nuggets? What kind of sauce are we talking about?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I create a new throwaway every few months, as I’ve seen my shitposts get reposted on Patrick’s LinkedIn and don’t want some HR sleuth cancelling me 

 

Pretty self-explanatory but was an intern at a MM at the time with my sights set at a BB. Ended up somewhat reaching my goal (I am EU based and ended up at the biggest EU bank).

 

Changed it from theAudiophile since I found myself starting to both agree and disagree at the same time with certain posts and I like the debate. Otherwise it would be something like SEConquerer. Or Finsultant.

The poster formerly known as theAudiophile. Just turned up to 11, like the stereo.
 

Got really interested in the "Billionaire Boys Club" case in Beverly Hills. I thought Joe Hunt was super intelligent (although he got caught) and inspiring for how old he was running a fund. Haven't heard of any traders on here being inspired by him like I was but... to each their own.

 

Nothing remarkable, just the shortened form of my West African native name, and I like the numbers 1 (maybe for Tolkien's One—Eru Iluvatar; and then also 9, i.e., the Nazgul)

 
Tsemaye1

Eru Iluvatar

great reference

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

I started in consulting before going to PE, and a part of me still feels very connected to that job. Also, it reminds me no not be a dick online because if I literally say "kind-hearted" then it would be weird to not be kind hearted.

Remember, always be kind-hearted.
 

When I made the account, I was juvenile, cretinous, and frequently inebriated as a consequence of ingesting fermented, then distilled, sugarcane molasses

I also like rhymes 

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes" - Oscar Wilde
 

Mine is the technical I fucked up when I was just starting out deciding on ib. Had sent a bunch of reach out emails, a credit suisse Director (now fired lol) randomly called me up while I was in the cafeteria and asked me do you or do you not use Equity value/EBIDTA, I'm a non finance major at a non target so I didn't really know and said yes (stupid now I get it) and he proceeded to tell me he's not going to help and cut the call. It's nice to look at that and see how far I've come since then.

 
Arroz con Pollo

Chicken and rice slaps

What type of rice

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I don't wear suede shoes.

“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.” -- Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce Limited.
 
08

2008 financial crisis + 8 is a lucky number in Chinese culture.

I got a phone number in China a few years ago and purchased a number with about 3 eights in it for like $300 US Dollars, which was a mountain amount of Yuan at the time. But, it is nice calling people and having 8s show up on their phone - it's really popular in China.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I work in Oil & Gas and I always enjoyed the dumb joke that oil comes from dead dinosaurs.

Note: oil doesn't really come from dead dinosaurs. Oil formed from biomass that existed before the time of what we consider dinosaurs, although it does come from prehistoric plants and animals (like plankton), so if you think of a plankton rather than Little Foot when someone says dinosaur, I guess you could argue oil comes from dinosaurs.

 
Jack's Smirking Revenge

Can't talk about mine. Rule 1.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
chipotleassociate

I eat a lot of Chipotle

You should have went with ChipotleMD.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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