April 3, 2000: Watching the Crash at 35,000 Feet.
A flight from Boston to San Francisco on one of the days the NASDAQ crashed.
The Creator's Journey · Chapter III, The Inner Arena
On April 3, 2000, I flew from Boston to San Francisco and watched the NASDAQ fall on the seatback screen. I could not call anyone or do anything. For six hours I sat with the information and my own reaction to it.
In the cockpit, when the instruments showed trouble, you had procedures and a crew. Here I had neither. It is the moment the crash stopped being an abstraction.
I thought the crash would teach me about markets. Mostly it taught me about the inside of my own head.