Author: Anne Z
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Day 390 of 1000: The Power of Tragic Stories
Ideas from Simon Critchley and Anne Carson on tragedy. The tragic television series Patriot.
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Day 389 of 1000: Living as the Main Character of Your Life
Developing my philosophy of protagonism, living as though you are the main character in an epic story.
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Day 388 of 1000: Nietzsche and the Artistic Model of Life
Nietzsche thought that aesthetic values were as important as moral in crafting a life. Where I’m going next in crafting my own life.
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Day 387 of 1000: Surrendering to Writing Solitude
Accepting that my life of solitude and writing is not only okay, but likely to bring me great joy.
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Day 386 of 1000: Transforming into a Single
My experience of becoming a confirmed single has been similar to L.A. Paul’s vampire thought experiment. I couldn’t forecast what it would be like.
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Day 385 of 1000: Getting in the Flow
The word “temperance” derives from the Latin verb “temperare” which means “to mix in proper proportions.” Finding the right mix for my life.
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Day 382 of 1000: Finding the Inter-Human in Suffering
Levinas proposed that suffering can be a way to get in touch with the inter-human. Witnessing-suffering and being-witnessed-suffering.
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Day 381 of 1000: Suffering and the Quest for Personal Progress
Ideas from Arthur W. Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller, applied to the Amazon Prime television series Patriot, and to my life.
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Day 380 of 1000: The Emotions of Trading
As I’m learning to trade I’m feeling strong emotions like hope, fear, and misery. But I’m realizing that calm equanimity is what I need to cultivate.
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Day 379 of 1000: Responding to Losses in Trading
Tom Hougaard says that how you feel about failure will define your life trajectory. How trading helps develop your ability to respond to losses.
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DAy 377 of 1000: Becoming Carefree
Seeking a carefree state of mind in trading, and in facing my upcoming retinal surgery.
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Day 376 of 1000: Forget Your Mistakes and Move On
In trading, as in life, it’s helpful to live in the present. Thinking about mistakes of the past puckers your attention and keeps you from succeeding now.
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Day 374 of 1000: Arendt on Labor, Work, and Action
Arendt promoted the vita activa over the vita contemplativa and distinguished between labor, work, and action. The activa can support the contemplativa.
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Day 372 of 1000: The Probabilistic Reality of Financial Markets
Ideas from Mark Douglas’ book Trading in the Zone. Fully accepting that anything can happen in the markets.
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Day 371 of 1000: Emotionally-Driven Transformation after Divorce
Kym Maclaren’s distinction between emotional clichés and authentic passions, and how it helps me make sense of my transformation after divorce.
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Day 369 of 1000: Frugal is Fun
Thinking about how much fun I have with frugality, starting with the beautiful, free hollyhocks now blooming in my garden.
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Day 367 of 1000: A Case for Persistent Inflation from the Energy Shock
Sharing ideas and research findings from economist Gianluca Benigno, who argues that large supply shocks can lead to disproportionately outsized inflation.
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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.