Well hello, you there, with the electronic device staring you in the face, come have a look inside my laboratory:
These lines are an extension of my brain laced with Fly’s computer brain inside the Exodus time machine. The two form a symbiotic bond that does an okay job of forecasting 1-week’s worth of stock market behavior.
You see, my brain doesn’t work like a normal humans. It compartmentalizes things to make sense of it all. Order from chaos, if you will. Sometime a big pool of chaos is compartmentalized, even if only temporarily. Like my tool shelf which, for the last three or so years has simply been the zone where tools are placed. Many others are commissioned to use my tools and over time it became a royal mess. But in my brain, tools went there.
I spend the better part of Saturday tearing open that royal cluster fuck of a shelving mess, disposing of the useless and further compartmentalizing the tool zone. It now has several distinct and logical zones for specific tools.
Now, when I need to work on one of my robots, I can quickly access my drivers, for example. They’re all in one bin. Over time the shelves will become deschevled again, but a strong baseline has been established which will ensure future tidying jobs will be exponentially faster.
Logic, cold and dead, tends to be my cranial path to nirvana.
What can be done with the tangible (tools and screws and such) can be done with the intangible, like market information. The key is to dispose of the information which is garbage (most opinions and news) and to compartmentalize the enormous pool of quality data (ticks and orders and bits).
Data, assigning numerical values to the very human interactions that take place on the exchange, is our best attempt to understand the markets which infallibly carry the ubiquitous risk of pandemonium.
And that’s why you need to consistently exercise your ability to steel your nerves and rely on the cold and dead, objective judgement. Then, when you need it most, your mental muscles are fit and prepared.
Ryan Holiday (one of the greatest thinkers of our time) says learning from your own mistakes is the easy part; learning from the mistakes of others is the real challenge. He also did this write up on John D. Rockefeller, which is an example of poise amid mayhem.
As year-end approaches, the groundwork needed for success becomes paramount. The behind-the-scenes hustle that makes the up front game look simple, even perhaps easy.
Friendly reminder: Tuesday is December 1st. Feel free to yell out your window.
The Exodus Strategy Session is signalling calm market conditions for the upcoming week, barring any major disruption. That means you ought to have plenty of capacity to tackle that project you’ve been meaning to do. I’m giving you permission to shut down the machines and get it done.
Godspeed lads.
Exodus members, the 107th Edition of Exodus Strategy Session is published. Go check it out!
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