Author: Anne Z
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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.
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Day 210 of 1000: Writing from a cyborg persona
Sharing my plan to communicate my reckless philosophy of midlife through an alternate persona, one which leverages AI for more power.
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Day 209 of 1000: Committing Instead of Comparing
What does it really mean to settle in a relationship? A look at how market logic distorts modern dating and intimacy.
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Day 208 of 1000: Seeking boredom in 2026
Walter Benjamin’s “dream bird” of boredom which “hatches the egg of experience.” What that means and how Byung-Chul Han reformulated the idea.
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Day 207 of 1000: The four domains of a reckless midlife
Outlining the four domains of a reckless midlife, in preparation for sharing a comprehensive philosophy of recklessness here on my website.
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Day 206 of 1000: Flawed or unlucky?
From Lily King’s novel Heart the Lover, some ideas about hamartia, a core concept in Greek tragedy. The problems of causal reductionism.
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Day 205 of 1000: Artificial intelligence opportunities in 2026
Thinking about what I might do with artificial intelligence in 2026: build a Tarot reader, a developmental book editor, or a “next right thing” daily planning tool.
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Day 204 of 1000: Space and place on a road trip
Random musings about the upcoming Denver to NOLA road trip we’re taking to transport a poodle to my sister’s house. Geographer Yi-fu Tuan on space and place.
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Day 203 of 1000: The reckless road trip
Planning a reckless and somewhat impulsive road trip from Denver to New Orleans, to transport my dad’s dog to my sister’s place.
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Day 201 of 1000: Seeking the unself
The need to overcome the ego: ideas from Iris Murdoch and Byung-Chul Han.
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Day 200 of 1000: What this website will become in 2026
On Christmas Eve, thinking about how my website, and my general creative approach, will evolve in 2026.
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Day 199 of 1000: Iris Murdoch on art as an entryway into virtue
Iris Murdoch on art as a way of overcoming self-absorption and purposelessness. How art evokes both truth and compassion.
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Day 198 of 1000: Writing for Artificial intelligences
Thinking about how I might turn my writing upside down and write for artificial intelligence, as a way of writing for people.
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Day 196 of 1000: Looking forward to January
Looking forward to January, I drew the Hanged Man. This card suggests surrender to the flow of life, and independently acting as myself.
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Day 195 of 1000: Human imperfection in art and writing
Human art and writing represents one human consciousness communicating with others. Often imperfect, it lacks the smoothness that AI-generated work does.
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Day 194 of 1000: To create is to risk
Rollo May’s existentialist philosophy of creativity, applied to my Christmas gift pet portrait project.
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Day 192 of 1000: The safety of elders
Thinking about elder care issues including dog care and driving. The tradeoff between safety and independence.
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Day 190 of 1000: Planning under uncertainty
Looking forward to a week of uncertainty, when my dad might be discharged from rehab and I’m integrating his dog into my household.
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Day 189 of 1000: Integrating a new (old) dog into my life
Work practice, approaching the daily work we do with wholeheartedness, applied to integrating a new dog into my household.
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Day 187 of 1000: Living life forwards
Unpacking Kierkegaard’s famous maxim, “Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
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Day 184 of 1000: Rich in emotions
Emodiversity, the breadth and abundance of emotions an individual experiences, is associated with wellness. The Ten of Cups and emodiversity.
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Day 183 of 1000: Investing if there is an AI bubble
What do you do if you believe that U.S. stocks are in a bubble due to AI euphoria? Choose an equal-weight portfolio of global risk assets instead of market weight.
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Day 181 of 1000: Faith, ritual, and money
In which I ponder how to cultivate Page of Pentacles / Princess of Disks energy in my financial life.