The Creation Story of Wall Street

An Excerpt From My 2006 Manuscript

I’m off getting married this weekend and didn’t have time to write anything new for you before I left, but I’m going to raise the stakes and share something I’ve never shared with anyone, ever: the introduction from a work of autofiction that I tried to write back in 2006, shortly after I left my job on Wall Street. I got about 35,000 words into it and then became consumed by my startup and never finished. The working title of the book was “Intelligent Design: Wall Street’s Secret Program to Clone Humans.” As you can see, mimesis (even while I didn’t call it that) was very much on my mind, even then.

Here it is.