Author: Anne Z
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Day 457 of 1000: Pondering Future Living Situations
After spending time at both my mother’s and my father’s senior living places in the last few days I’m pondering what my own old age living situation might look like.
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Day 454 of 1000: Called Towards solitude
You’d think I had enough solitude but I want more. Setting down societal demands that I share more. Seeking coherence not connection, for now.
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Day 452 of 1000: A Writer’s Retreat
When talent is naked and immature, it’s time to decree a moratorium on socializing, loving, and consuming.
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Day 451 of 1000: Art that Inspires the Creation of Art
Lewis Hyde writes as art as an agent of transformation. How art makes more artists.
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Day 450 of 1000: Managing my Retirement Savings Myself
I’ve developed an asset allocation model with simple timing models for managing my long-term retirement investments. I couldn’t make it work without the web app I’m vibe coding.
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Day 449 of 1000: America’s Military Weakness
While modern war is fought with drones and AI, Hegseth fixates on the shape of men’s bodies. Are we going the way of the late Roman empire?
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Day 448 of 1000: Settling Down into the Muck of My Mind
Allan Ginsberg recommends writing secretly so you can be free to say anything you want. On painting and writing in private.
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Day 447 of 1000: Focusing on What I Truly enjoy
I’ve found I don’t enjoy entering art shows. But I do enjoy money management. So I’m focused on the latter, not the former.
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Day 446 of 1000: A Path that Goes Nowhere
In Crones Don’t Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen writes of paths that go nowhere, paths with heart. My path goes nowhere but brings me such joy.
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Day 445 of 1000: The Desire to Consume vs the Desire to Share
Consumer goods don’t satisfy, where gifts can, says Lewis Hyde in The Gift.
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Day 444 of 1000: Who Is Art Made For?
My grandmother made art for herself, and for her family. I do the same.
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Day 443 of 1000: FOMO Isn’t a Substitute for an Investment Process
Sharing research findings from Allianz Bernstein about how concentrated market indexes are on the AI buildout trade. What I’m doing about it.
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Day 442 of 1000: Integrating My Animus to Become One-in-Herself
A woman becomes one-in-herself — psychologically whole — only when she fully integrates typically masculine powers (physical, intellectual, adventuresome, spiritual).
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Day 441 of 1000: Selling All My Bond Funds
My newly-devised flow allocation model tells me to sell all my bond funds. I wanted to do that anyway; now I have justification.
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Day 440 of 1000: You Can’t Step Into the Same River Twice
Living a flow-oriented life (a life of practice) vs a stock-oriented life (a life of acquisition and hoarding).
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Day 439 of 1000: Exploring Tactical Asset Allocation for my IRA
Formulating a plan for managing my IRA account according to tactical allocation rules.
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Day 438 of 1000: Becoming One-In-Herself
The Greek goddess Hestia, the goddess of the hearth and temple, shows a woman how to become whole.
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Day 437 of 1000: Stoking the Creative Fire
Jessica Dore writes that our creative lives inspire and tells us that we are alive. Isn’t that enough?
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Day 436 of 1000: Preparing for a Potential Stock Market Correction
My advisor suggested I take a look at buffered ETFs. My research suggests that simpler alternatives might work better as protection against a crash.
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Day 435 of 1000: Creative Death before Rebirth
The life of author Rachel Cusk, its peaks and valleys. And her latest book, The Life of M.
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Day 434 of 1000: Achievement Minimalism
Seeking contentment with the life I have rather than continuing to pursue more social contacts, more money, more external validation.
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Day 432 of 1000: Aspiration and Behavior Change
Wandering reflections on conflict, aspiration, and the transtheoretical model of behavior change.
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Day 431 of 1000: Creating a Philosophical Place of Practice
How to find a philosophical place of practice when you’re a suburban midlife empty nester? Create one yourself.
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Day 430 of 1000: Why Do Philosophy, and How
To do philosophy is to transform yourself through philosophical practice. Doing it in community and also atopically.
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Day 429 of 1000: What is wealth for?
My wealth allows me to live the life of a full-time artist. My art can inspire other people, even as other artists inspire me.
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Day 428 of 1000: Climbing a Mountain vs Chilling at Basecamp
We’re always training for something, writes Peter Sloterdijk in You Must Change Your Life. Are you training for chilling in basecamp or climbing a mountain?
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Day 427 of 1000: What if the AI Payoff is Delayed?
Apollo Chief Economist Slok says we haven’t seen any payoff from AI in sectors besides the sellers of AI hardware and services. What the benefits are delayed?
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Day 424 of 1000: Gnosis and Renunciation in Trading
Renouncing a focus on prediction in favor of probabilistic trading. Using gnosis — knowledge gained through experience.
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Day 423 of 1000: Betrayal and Kitsch in Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sabina’s betrayals and her refusal of kitsch in Unbearable Lightness of Being. Kitsch in other areas of life: politics, adultery.
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Day 422 of 1000: Philosophical Ideas in Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kundera on lightness and heaviness, and the aesthetics of life. Kierkegaard on the aesthetic vs ethical life.
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Day 421 of 1000: Rigid Trading Rules and Flexible Expectations
Mark Douglas writes that “we have to be rigid in our rules and flexible in our expectations” in trading.
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Day 416 of 1000: Kundera on the Heaviness of Life
Milan Kundera opens his celebrated novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being with an introduction to Nietzschen eternal recurrence. On choosing heaviness.
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Day 413 of 1000: Running My Own Capital
Advice from X about living off the PnL of my portfolio. And upcoming risks for the U.S. stock market in the second half of the year.
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Day 414 of 1000: Courage, Creativity, Contemplation
In yesterday’s Tarot reading, I pulled the Judgment, Eight of Cups, and Six of Wands cards. How these guide me towards an inspired and inspiring life.
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Day 412 of 1000: Art Intensive
I’m expanding my art practice into “assemblage” — bringing together scrap materials, found objects, and everyday items in a 3D sculpture.
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Day 411 of 1000: Living My Mountain Gma Lifestyle
Further outlining a vision for my life that supports daily activities, decluttering, money management, and more.
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Day 410 of 1000: Stories that Imprison vs. Stories that Free
Riffing off a Tara Brach podcast episode title, thinking about Hester Prynne’s big mistake and how it led to a good, if grief-filled, life.
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Day 409 of 1000: S&P 500 Implied Correlation Falls
S&P 500 index stocks are not moving together. Semiconductors were doing better than hyperscalers recently, echoing a pattern seen right before the dotcom crash.
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Day 408 of 1000: D.H. Lawrence’s Writing Style
I’m enjoying reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and appreciate Lawrence’s poetic, repetitive style. But his style is not favored by all critics.
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Day 407 of 1000: Conditions for Infidelity
How author D.H. Lawrence sets the stage for Constance Chatterley’s adultery in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
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Day 406 of 1000: Art and Creative Differentiation
Nietzsche thought that a great person would creatively differentiate their existence rather than living with the herd. Deleuze applied this idea to art.