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Although I went to conferences where the bar resembled a frat party,
I was never offered drugs, nor did I know many who used them. It makes
sense – what hedge funds do is highly mentally challenging and you
need to be at the top of your game for a long working day to compete.
Turning up at work in a drug haze, you would be bound to make costly
mistakes and eventually get sacked. Perhaps visiting prostitutes and strip
clubs are more obvious sins, and there was a fair bit of that. I have been to
a couple of broker parties where there was a large number of women with
limited mathematical skills but more ...