Cognitive Flexibility in Finance
Kevin Darby, Blue Trading Systems
Don’t over-engineer it. There’s a huge tendency, especially for technical people, to make up complexity.
The problems Kevin Darby, managing partner at Blue Trading Systems, encounters as a fintech vendor are very different from those he faced as an index options market maker. In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s Chicago event, Darby talks about tackling an ever-changing problem set as your career evolves, as well as what Pac-Man and futures trading have in common.
Produced by Mike Forrester and Patrick Lothian
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