Gregory Blotnick(@gregoryblotnick):intelligence comes in many forms Steve Mandel (Lone Pine): "But one thing that we've learned, or I've learned, is people can be unbelievably smart, but if they're very linear thinkers, they will never work as an analyst. We are always dealing in shades of grey, probabilities. If somebody has to know the answer, like to a math problem or whatever, if they have to know the answer, there is never the answer in our world. And so those people can be incredibly smart and might be winning Nobel Prizes or whatever, but they can't work in our world because our world is all about probabilities and weighing outcomes. And if that makes you uncomfortable, it's just not the work for you."

2026.11.03 11:22

intelligence comes in many forms Steve Mandel (Lone Pine): "But one thing that we've learned, or I've learned, is people can be unbelievably smart, but if they're very linear thinkers, they will never work as an analyst. We are always dealing in shades of grey, probabilities. If somebody has to know the answer, like to a math problem or whatever, if they have to know the answer, there is never the answer in our world. And so those people can be incredibly smart and might be winning Nobel Prizes or whatever, but they can't work in our world because our world is all about probabilities and weighing outcomes. And if that makes you uncomfortable, it's just not the work for you."