In an interview on Monday, Mr. Zames reflected on how the previous crises he had experienced, including his front-row seat for the Long-Term Capital Management implosion, had informed his view of financial risk.
Once we'd debated the merits of family law, I asked Tanzer about pornography and whether his career had informed his view that men were mistreated by society.
There may be something unique about Eventbrite that leads Hartz to make this calculation, or something specific to one of Wilson's investments that has informed his own view.
He grew up in a secular Jewish family of eastern European origin in the Haifa area and there are a few things he recognises about himself that have informed his world view, or at least his desire to question other people's view of the world.
Attempts to donate to the organization, which Roof apparently credited in an online manifesto with having informed his white supremacist views, result in a message that "this recipient is currently unable to receive money".
While Dyer comically exaggerates his ineptitude by invoking the insights of Rilke, Auden, Nietzsche, Borges, and Frank O'Hara, the very extent to which their views have informed his suggests that this globetrotter's true home is in literature itself.
I asked what personal experiences informed his views.
That experience, he said, had left him with "a little bit of culture shock" — a reaction to the highly theoretical approach to composition he encountered in Germany — even as it informed his views of his roots.
Condoleezza Rice, one of the highest-ranking African-Americans in the Bush administration, told a gathering of black journalists here today that growing up in the South during the civil rights movement had informed her view of American foreign policy in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"I've always felt quite strongly about this aesthetic, and it has informed my view of fashion, as well as of art and architecture," Ms. Fendi said.
