Day 237 of 1000: Lessons in Liquidity | the Silver Market Crash of 2026
Analyzing yesterday’s precious metals market crash. Where will the silver market go next?
Day 236 of 1000: Precious Metals Under Pressure
Gold, silver, and other precious metals are under heavy selling pressure today. Possible reasons, and implications for investors.
Day 235 of 1000: The Physical Delivery of Silver
I share a video and theory from Andy Schectman, a precious metals dealer, about why the silver price is surging, and the risks of the supply-demand imbalance that exists in the silver market.
Day 234 of 1000: Letting Curiosity Lead
The self-care app Finch, a commodities supercycle, and why it’s okay to let curiosity lead.
Day 233 of 1000: Is Japan Going Broke?
Ray Dalio’s How Countries Go Broke would seem to apply to Japan. Or does it?
Day 232 of 1000: Is It Too Late to Get Into Precious Metals?
Why it’s not too late to get into precious metals. How to invest in them without taking on undue risk.
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.
Day 230 of 1000: Freestyle Investing
Applying the lessons of freewriting to investing, for people who can’t stomach buy-and-hold.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Day 224 of 1000: Meaning-Making Every Day
Thinking about my painting and writing practice. Asking myself, “What am I meant to do next?”
Day 223 of 1000: How to Know What to Do Next
Pondering the advice from Jung and Cameron: “do the next thing that needs to be done.” What is a reckless alternative?
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.
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.
Just Complete the Task
The less you rate and judge the results of your actions in your daily life, and instead celebrate having shown up at all, the happier and more motivated you will feel.
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.
Trust in Your Becoming
Open yourself up to the becoming of yourself into the future. You are not done changing.
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.
When You Can’t Control What’s Coming
The philosophy of recklessness says “let go and let go (and let go and let go).”
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