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.
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.
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.
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.
Day 420 of 1000: Options Wheeling ETFs
Moving my options wheel trading towards ETFs instead of individual stocks, to seek less volatility and overall better returns.
Day 419 of 1000: Building Things, both Digital and Physical
This week I’m building an options wheel management web app as well as my book assemblage artwork.
Day 418 of 1000: On Accidental Complexity and Silver Bullets
From the classic Fred Brooks essay No Silver Bullets: on accidental complexity, geographic cures, and the irreducible difficulty of options trading.
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.
Day 415 of 1000: Improving on the Options Wheel
A couple tweaks to the options wheel in which you sell puts until assigned, then sell covered calls. The one I like: using bear put spreads on margin instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Day 405 of 1000: Tragedy vs Transformation
Planning a book-based artwork about great novels featuring adulterous women.
Day 404 of 1000: Overloaded Expectations for Marriage
Marriage is too many things at once: a legal contract, an economic partnership, a kinship structure, and your all-consuming intimate relationship.
Day 403 of 1000: Upgrading My Painting Setup
As I get back to making art regularly, I need to improve how I hang up canvases on my wall for painting.
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