Bring up the banana diet of some productivity zealot to Barry Ritholtz, co-founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and he is off and discussing the genetics of taste buds, the soap-like flavor cilantro produces in roughly one in six people, supertasters with abnormally dense clusters of receptors across their tongues, the mysterious internal calibration that makes some people stoic in the face of pain and others hyperreactive to it.
The original question — whether he has any quirky office rituals — has long been left behind.
“That’s probably the quirkiest thing,” he concedes, “the continual internal dialogue that happens with everything I see.”
It’s a fair warning to anyone who approaches Ritholtz expecting a Wall Street archetype. The former attorney, financial blogger and host of Bloomberg’s long-running Masters in Business podcast has spent the better part of three decades building an investment firm, a m
