Comments on Consultant Ninja: Equity Private, Respect Through Obfuscation

If you are looking to teach your staff leadership styles You should think about checking out http://www.haygroup.com They are an excellent consulting firm.

2009-05-15T11:59:00.000-04:00

This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

SEG- Thank you for the defense of EP. A few note...

2009-05-05T08:55:00.000-04:00

SEG-

Thank you for the defense of EP. A few notes:

1) I haven't read EP's biography. I just call it like I see it, and that is that she her writing is intentionally excessively complex.

2) I am employed at one of the firms in the title section, which matters inasmuch as I can legitimately claim the title of this blog. I can only assume that EP left the industry to go into journalism, given the volume of writings.

3) I have no Google ads, and no revenue. Thus this site is for my own self-serving purposes.

4) Deal Breaker is not exactly a paragon of literary excellence. It's a gossip site. Now, if she started working at TMZ, then I might be impressed by her loyal readers.

Con - Ninja, I realize as someone who hocks thei...

2009-05-05T00:30:00.000-04:00

Con - Ninja,

I realize as someone who hocks their mind for a living that you need to go to the edge to get noticed in a world full of unemployed quant’s now flooding the brain market. However, you might want to do a little due diligence before taking swings at people. Having said that, seeing the caliber of your thoughts as posted here; I guess I can see why you are unemployed and advertising yourself as a mythic Japanese superhero bad guy.

EP is not a native English speaker if you were not already aware of that, in fact she speaks 4 languages 3 more than I do. I have heard her voice, and trust me; English is not even close to native. However, your next guess might be closer then you expect, if you have in fact read Kafka, which means yes she is a native German speaker.

Third, if you had bothered to notice anything about her education, you would already known the above. As her snarky written comments are posted daily @ Deal Breaker, which is now famous for for her brand of wit. As such, I can only guess that you are in fact going out of your way to try and generate some hits, like mine, and hopefully a reply from her, to drive some Google revenue to your own secret ninja project here.

Personally, I'll take someone who speaks four languages brilliantly, English being the one she handles the least well, and delivers actual content over someone who thinks their frequent flier mile tally is worth posting in a sidebar any day.

Best Regards,

~SEG

I'm guessing that this is a well executed exercise...

2009-05-04T22:05:00.000-04:00

I'm guessing that this is a well executed exercise in self-parody. Way too verbose to be taken seriously.

One assumes that at least the adjective in the ter...

2009-05-04T21:49:00.000-04:00

One assumes that at least the adjective in the term "incredibly intelligent" is ironic...and as far as obfuscatory, I had the pleasure of the required reading of enough pomo stuff in grad school to know she's a rank amateur.

Oh, Lord, that sentence was dreadful. I'll never g...

2009-05-04T20:49:00.000-04:00

Oh, Lord, that sentence was dreadful. I'll never get back the 20 minutes it took to read it.

@Anonymous Apparently you don't know the differen...

2009-05-04T20:38:00.000-04:00

@Anonymous

Apparently you don't know the difference between German (the language of Kafka) and English. German has a structure that makes reading and writing long sentences a relatively easy task. English makes no such affordances. In my opinion, the complexity seen in her writing is born wholly out of ego.

I am happy you could understand that with no problems. You are a superior being and clearly have a bigger ego^H^H^Hintellect than me.

I'm apparantly smarter than the Flesch-Kincaid Rea...

2009-05-04T20:14:00.000-04:00

I'm apparantly smarter than the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Analysis, because I didn't have any difficulty understanding the sentence at all. Did you?

By the way, as I'm sure you don't know, Kafka wrote sentences that sometimes ran more than a page. I wonder what your technobabble analysis machine would say about his writing.