I recently read this New York Magazine article written by Reeves Wiedman (his name will be relevant in a moment) on hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. The article discusses Ackman’s life and his recent criticisms of Harvard University, but what caught my eye was the following passage about Ackman: Ackman believes that our lives are often fated from birth. “I have a view that people become their names,” he told me. “Like, I’ve met people named Hamburger that own McDonald’s franchises.” We’d been talking for nearly an hour and a half when Ackman asked me what my name was, hoping to offer a diagnosis. After he seemed ... (full story)