Carl Vonderau
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A free book and a friend who fell in love with a con artist Hello from San Diego. It is in the 40s at night here. Sorry to brag. Well, Valentine’s Day just happened on Friday so here’s something that most males say at one time or another. I’ve got a free book from […]
La Jolla, because of its wealth, has always attracted scammers. So I wasn’t surprised. that another one cropped up. The company is called Ethos Asset Management. I never heard of it, but back in 2023 the artificial intelligence company Beyond Limits accused the CEO, Carlos Santos, of fraud. But it took awhile to catch him. […]
What we were all afraid of is coming true. People are literally falling in love with ChatpGPT. They find the software more understanding and entertaining than their spouses and partners. After all, the program learns what you prefer and feeds it to back to you. If you want to read a creepy article about relationships […]
I’m blogging a second time about Alice Murno. I just finished a long and fascinating article in the New Yorker of Jan. 6, 2025 about her. Rachel Aviv does a deep dive into how the sexual abuse of her daughter, Andrea, affected her life and writings. It was fascinating to read this while reading her […]
Former international banker and award-winning thriller author Carl Vonderau recounts a story in Medellin, Colombia about the “long way.”
Former international banker and award-winning thriller author Carl Vonderau talks about an experience with a prison in Medellin, Colombia (video.)
The fires happening in LA are unbelievable. The property decimated has a larger area than Manhattan, and the fire is still not contained. One expert estimated that it would take more than 20K firetrucks just to stop the blazes in all the houses. More Santa Ana winds are projected to spread embers into other areas […]
I read a disturbing but not surprising article in the Wall Street Journal. Junior investment bankers routinely work 100 hours a week. An all-nighter followed by a plane flight or customer presentation in the morning is common. They often lose track of what day it is because they never rest on the weekends. After one […]
We Have Met the Drug Smuggler – by Carl Vonderau. More than 200K people travel from Mexico into San Diego each day. In 2023, 27K pounds of Fentanyl were seized at the border crossing. We hear that Mexican cartels are the ones flooding us with these drugs. But that’s not true. In reality, drug-trafficking crimes […]
Politicians and Conmen – by Carl Vonderau. In an age where American politics have become performance-based, who are the best performers to have on your side? The answer might be conmen. They can read an audience and manipulate emotions better than most people. Is it any wonder why some of the best conmen have been […]