Author: Anne Z
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Day 363 of 1000: Making Magic
Today is a week for making magic, ordinary kinds of magic, magic in hosting a graduation, magic in getting immersed in a great novel, magic in creating a trading plan for all seasons and markets.
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Day 361 of 1000: Imagining a Grand Narrative of Transforming through Grief
How I came to trading through grief after divorce, and why looking at it as a good story helps me cope.
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Day 360 of 1000: Nietzsche’s Perspectivism and a Postmodern Presidency
Exploring how Nietzsche’s perspectivism relates to postmodernism, especially that practiced by the American right.
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Day 359 of 1000: Two Things A Novel Can Do that Nonfiction Cannot
A novel presents life incarnate not just abstracted, and it gets at complicated many layered themes in roundabout inefficient ways. The Bell as an example.
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Day 357 of 1000: Using a Donchian Channel for asset Entry and Exit
The Donchian channel is a relatively simple indicator that can help you decide when to enter and exit trades. A brief review of its use.
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Day 355 of 1000: The Textuality of Life
Nietzsche thought your life should be lived as literature, according to Alexander Nehamas. Life as a text to interpret.
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Day 353 of 1000: Experiencing Suffering and Freedom from Suffering
Thoughts from dharma teacher Ines Freedman on being somebody and nobody. Meeting the sadness and joy of everyday life without a defended ego.
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Day 352 of 1000: Revisiting the Dot Com Crash
The dot com boom went far further than most people expected, for far longer. What is going to happen with the AI boom?
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Day 351 of 1000: Stumbling into the Second Half of Life
In his book Falling Upward, Rohr says that stumbling and falling down (to later rise up) is the key to midlife transformation. Applying it to my midlife journey.
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Day 349 of 1000: Midlife Manual Competence
When I was married, I let my husband to do any fix-it tasks around the house. After the divorce, I began a slow process of learning to do those tasks myself.
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Day 348 of 1000: Magic at Midlife
Riffing off a Tarot reading that included Justice, King of Swords, and Two of Pentacles. Finding magic in acting with attentiveness and character.
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Day 347 of 1000: The Acorn of My Being
James Hillman on the soul’s purpose. Does my soul have a purpose, and have I left it behind?
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Day 345 of 1000: Marxism in the (post-) Modern Era
Considering Marxist ideas, financialization, and what happens if AI causes extreme unemployment.
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Day 343 of 1000: Self as a Verb | Selfing and Unselfing
Ideas from three dharma talks about selfing and unselfing from Ines Freedman and Gil Fronsdal. The freedom unselfing brings.
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Day 342 of 1000: What I don’t Want to Do
Finding your own path often involves doing things that feel weird, and that feel wrong too. Time to bust out of the shackles of what society tells you to do.
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Day 341 of 1000: Affirming Abundance
I got a new rug cleaning machine today, to complement my four vacuum cleaners. Have I reached enough yet? Is this abundance?
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DAy 340 of 1000: The 11,000 Day Project next?
What if I finish this 1,000 day blogging project without feeling transformed? Maybe a 30-year blogging project is next.
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Day 339 of 1000: Aspirational and Non-Aspirational Transformation
Some transformations involve Callard-style aspirational proleptic reasoning, and some just unfold.
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Day 338 of 1000: Borrowing Wisdom about Not Borrowing Wisdom
Taleb writes only from what he can call forth from his mind without effort, including quotes.
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Day 335 of 1000: Confidence in the Future
Meditations on having what you need — not to include $10 million in retirement.
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Day 334 of 1000: The Craft Rich Lifestyle
Devoting my life to craft: writing, options trading, dog walking, painting. The wealth that comes from manual skilled labor.
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Day 333 of 1000: My Skull-Sized Queendom
One-third of the way through my 1000-day project, which might be about reinvention and might not, I reflect on swimming in the waters of the achievement society.
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Day 332 of 1000: Liquid Modernity and Consumerism
Bauman said that after modernity comes liquid modernity, in which we build our identities via consuming not producing. What to do instead.
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Day 331 of 1000: On Becoming a Primary Source
I don’t simply want to explain and reinterpret other people’s ideas. I want to develop and share my own independent philosophy.
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Day 330 of 1000: Vision Quest, part 2
Ideas from Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller, and reflections on my visual disability.
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Day 329 of 1000: Optimistic, Pessimistic, or a Third Way?
Is Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return optimistic or pessimistic? Perhaps it is neither.
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Day 328 of 1000: Affirming a Chosen Midlife
Nietzschean ideas of affirmation instead of nihilism. Walking to win thoughts. Choosing not to do things.
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Day 327 of 1000: Changing the World for One Person
The attention economy says that what counts is how many followers you have. Instead, what about inspiring just one person?
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Day 325 of 1000: Vision Quest
Applying Frank’s ideas from The Wounded Storyteller to my new visual disability. The quest narrative and suffering as life itself.
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Day 324 of 1000: AI Disillusionment Amid Ongoing AI Equity Euphoria
On Twitter, commentators are questioning the fitness of AI for writing and agentic tasks. Meanwhile AI stocks continue to soar.
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Day 323 of 1000: The Vita Negativa
Taleb says “knowlege grows by subtraction.” Expanding upon this to a sovereign lifestyle of saying no to the achievement society.
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Day 321 of 1000: Authenticity in Later Life
Charles Taylor and Iris Murdoch on what’s good and meaningful. Authenticity not simply as individualistic pursuits.
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Day 320 of 1000: Choosing to Be Single
In which I share ideas from Bella DePaulo’s book Single at Heart and how a choice to be single can arise via positive disintegration.
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Day 319 of 1000: Positive Maladjustment
Reflecting on Dabrowski’s idea of positive maladjustment, and how Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are exemplars of that phenomenon.
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Day 318 of 1000: Overexcitability, in cooking and in investing
Dabrowski proposed that intellectual, emotional, and other overexcitabilities can provide fuel for personal development. Applying it to cooking and investing.
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Day 317 of 1000: On Being Idiotic
Loved Julie Zhuo’s article on being an idiot. Didn’t like the tie in with artificial intelligence.
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Day 316 of 1000: Transcending Self and Culture
Flow psychologist Csikszentmihalyi’s ideas about how individuals can influence cultural and social evolution. I’m skeptical.
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Day 315 of 1000: How Culture Distorts Reality
Culture obscures reality so that we can’t see it accurately. Ideas from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.