pretending...............................

      On the morning of May 11, 2021, Sam Bankman-Fried made his first television appearance.  He sat at his trading desk and talked into his computer screen to two female reporters on Bloomberg TV.  Thick black curls exploded off his head in every direction.  People who tried to describe Sam's hair would give up and call it an "afro," but it wasn't an Afro.  It was just a mess, and like everything about Sam's appearance felt less like a decision than a decision not to make a decision.  He wore what he always wore: a wrinkled T-shirt and cargo shorts.  His bare knee jack-hammered up and down at roughly four beats per second, while his eyes darted left and right and collided with his interviewers' gaze only by chance.  His general demeanor was that of a kid pretending to be interested when his parents hauled him into the living room to meet their friends.  He'd done nothing to prepare, but the questions were so easy it didn't matter.  Crypto Wunderkind, read the Bloomberg chryon, while the numbers on the left of the screen showed that, in just the past year, bitcoin's price had risen by more than 500 percent.

-Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon