Slow Day on the Stock Market Plantation

Markets were boring today and there was little change in my pnl. I did close fully long with a little cash reserved for the morning dump. But since it’s end of year, I’ve been using the slow time to be productive — now progressing rapidly in “learning to code” — an absurd avocation if I’ve ever seen one.

Thus far, I’ve learned the rudiments of HTML, CSS, C and now Python, which is orders of magnitude better than C, which of course was orders of magnitude better than coding in binary. It’s both fascinating and yet monotonous and I can see why a professional programmer might hate his job. However mundane and absurd, if you’d apply your skills to create a product — it would all be worth it in the end.

HOWEVER, if chancing upon building a product — never think about money or having business be your prime motive. If you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life and if you’re really good at what you do — you will be paid for it.

Books on my mantle include, but not limited to, Ulysses, The Cossacks, The Philosophy of Kant, and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I’ve probably read 25+ books this year and have done so, at that pace, since my early 20s. I am 47 today.

It’s worth mentioning, long ago, upon taking up the avocation of reading, I decided to only read the classics — because those were never going to change and the new stuff I could catch up to later. I try to consume as much information as I can, utilizing Audible in the showers, car, and before bed — reading books in the morning and late evening. I have very little idle time in my day — never a moment of rest of repose.

I’ll have plenty of down time when I drop dead. Until then, I’ll keep working as diligently as I can, crafting my trade to its perfection — talking extreme shit online — causing people to feel emotional about my viewpoints.

Fucking off now — see you tomorrow.