Author: Anne Z
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Day 261 of 1000: Hopefulness and concrete Goals
Nietzsche and Han on how hope turns our thoughts to concrete goals as a way of composing the story of the future.
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Day 260 of 1000: An Easy Way to Hedge Against Dollar Weakness
Hedge against continued dollar weakness by tilting your portfolio towards international equities and away from U.S.
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Day 259 of 1000: In the Wintertime of a Transition
It’s wintertime and I’m in the neutral zone of reinvention. But spring is coming, and I’m going to paint with springy colors, in an energetic style.
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Day 258 of 1000: Still Here
Making it to age 57 is an achievement. I grieve for the people in my past who didn’t get the chance.
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Day 257 of 1000: Searching for Bohemia by the Sea
An Ingeborg Bachmann poem, Han on the “and yet” of hope beyond despair, and losing my own Bohemia by the sea.
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Day 256 of 1000: Hans Hofmann | How an Artist Creates Magic
Hans Hofmann on how an artist can overcome the physical reality of her materials to create surreality, magic, a spiritual experience.
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Day 256 of 1000: The Voluminati | People Who Write Too Much
The problem of too much AI-bloated writing online. The problem I have with writing too much.
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Day 254 of 1000: Reason vs. Hope – Spinoza vs. Han
Early modern philosopher Spinoza said if you live according to reason, you need not depend on Hope. Byung-Chul Han says hope takes you places that reason cannot.
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Day 253 of 1000: The Neoliberal Creative Dispositif
Byung-Chul Han’s neoliberal creative dispositif in which acts of creativity respond to the achievement society’s demands.
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Day 252 of 1000: Finding Hopefulness
Pondering how uncertain I feel as I attempt to reinvent myself. Considering ideas from Byung-Chul Han’s The Spirit of Hope.
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Day 250 of 1000: One-Quarter Done | Art Monsterhood Achieved
Having completed 25% of my 1000-day reinvention blogging project, I reflect on what I have achieved.
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Day 249 of 1000: Is There an Oil Glut?
In a recent podcast interview, oil analyst Dr. Anas Alhajji says there’s not an oil glut but don’t expect higher oil prices in the near future.
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Day 248 of 1000: How Iris Murdoch Introduces a Main Character
Sharing a passage from Iris Murdoch’s novel A Word Child, in which she introduces the main character not with description but with sensory detail.
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Day 247 of 1000: Why the U.S. Needs the Fourth Turning
Contemplating Neil Howe and William’s Strauss’ The Fourth Turning as a dialectic. The dollar as reserve currency, and the problems therein.
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Day 246 of 1000: Land of the Rising Sun?
Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi won a super-majority in the house in yesterday’s snap elections. What does this mean for financial markets?
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Day 245 of 1000: Planning for Valentine’s Day Week
Plans for the week including Valentine’s Day dinner, writing about investing, working on Mechanism paintings, dancing through life.
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Day 244 of 1000: Working Through a Painting Block
Working through a painting block by changing subjects and using a color I rarely use, raw umber.
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Day 243 of 1000: Weight Loss Meds and the Re-architecture of Desire
On my experience with Wellbutrin for overeating and overdrinking. How it’s changing the landscape of my desire.
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Day 242 of 1000: Equity Valuations Fall Slowly When There’s Inflation
A lesson from financial strategist Russell Napier. Equity valuations fall slowly when there’s inflation. Are we facing a period of structurally high inflation?
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Day 240 of 1000: Seeing Justly and Lovingly
British philosopher Iris Murdoch proposed that morality lies not in what actions we take but in how we cultivate a just and loving gaze.
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Day 234 of 1000: Letting Curiosity Lead
The self-care app Finch, a commodities supercycle, and why it’s okay to let curiosity lead.
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Day 233 of 1000: Is Japan Going Broke?
Ray Dalio’s How Countries Go Broke would seem to apply to Japan. Or does it?
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Day 231 of 1000: Art and Money
This week, I’ll be working on my kline-inspired Motion Memory paintings as well as the new portfolio dashboard I’m putting together in Google Sheets.
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Day 230 of 1000: Freestyle Investing
Applying the lessons of freewriting to investing, for people who can’t stomach buy-and-hold.
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Day 229 of 1000: A Freewrite about Fiction and Unclenching
Freewriting can help you unclench, says Oliver Burkeman. Other ways of unclenching, including slow reading of fiction.
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Day 228 of 1000: 4D Spacetime and Taking the Long View
Musings on four-dimensional spacetime and what it might have to offer as advice for taking the long view.
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Day 226 of 1000: Against Buy-and-Hold Investing
Why I use market timing rules to limit losses in my investment portfolio rather than just doing buy-and-hold.
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DAy 225 of 1000: Investing Moves to Make Now, as the Dollar Declines
Trust in the U.S. is declining, with a consequent decline of the U.S. dollar against other currencies. What investing moves to make now, and why.
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Choosing Your Next Action
Meaning isn’t given to you by your culture, your parents, or your god. You create meaning through your choices and your actions.
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Day 222 of 1000: Using a Binary Mindset to Escape Perfectionism
Why and how a binary mindset can help you escape perfectionism. An idea from the book How to Be an Imperfectionist.
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Day 221 of 1000: Robert Ryman on Painting
American abstract painter Robert Ryman on how process is fundamental to his paintings, but is not the subject of his paintings.
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Day 220 of 1000: Marketing Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Thinking about art and artificial intelligence and how to sell art that is conceptual and created over time.
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Day 219 of 1000: The Joy of Giving
Erich Fromm on giving as a relational process, with nods to Erik Erikson’s generativity and Nel Nodding’s definition of care.
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Day 218 of 1000: The emptiness of success
Inspired by the Two of Wands, musings on goal setting, achievement, and dissatisfaction. With an appearance by Schopenhauer.
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Day 217 of 1000: Back to the creative life
Getting back to my writing and painting after spending most of last week on a very long road trip.
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Day 215 of 1000: Jung’s enantiodromia and the persona
Jung borrowed the term enantiodromia from the pre-Socratic philosoph Heraclitus, to describe what happens when a conscious attitude is taken too far. On enantiodromia and the persona.
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Day 213 of 1000: Dropping your masks at midlife
The Chariot, as an auspicious card for a road trip departure, and a caution at midlife, reminding you to end reliance on personas developed for earlly adulthood.
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Day 212 of 1000: Writing a daybook
I’m writing a daybook about midlife reinvention, sharing the reckless philosophy of my alter ego Annie Miraway.
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Day 211 of 1000: Choosing recklessness, road trip edition
More on the reckless road trip that has been postponed once already but maybe won’t be again. The idea of recklessness as letting of doing things right.