I will learn the Italian language even if it kills me. It’s a humbling experience bumbling around town trying to be a social creature, not being able to articulate what you want or what you think. Hitting that resistance level and just pounding away. I’m hoping to bust into the blue ocean and away from [...]
I can't really wrap my head around short selling the market. This week I'm going to conduct an experiement based on companies that are expected to do well. Initial capital = 5,000 Expected daily return = 3% Commission Fees = 26 bucks / day Stock that I think will perform well per day [...]
groundhog day, really sank in to me tonight, that i won’t have a free weekend for 6 months or so. putting it bluntly, it kinda sucks — 12 hours a day 7 days a week are just words until you’re actually there. the difference b/w this and a silicon valley startup is 12 hours of [...]
A word about hyper consumerism – Going to a store, going to a burrito joint, going to a mall, you could argue that we’ve reached a gilded age for the middle class. People for the most part can afford to do almost anything, buy anything, use anything, go anywhere. Something in me says what’s morally [...]
A handful of peeps came out for my brief stint at my current job. Tomorrow I take my lunch pail and go to a new adventure, it’s always kinda like the first day of school. Well here’s the Das Boot at Freisenhaus, it’s 2 liters of brutal Spaten, surely to knock you on your butt. [...]
Jupiter Hotel Portland was the site of the James Mercer, Steve Malkmus set, I must say it was extraordinary, a benefit for an Elementary School. Brilliant, even though the crowd talked through both sets. The lights at the Jupiter are black lights, the decor is IKEAish which is the fashionable thing to do, and hipsters [...]
Lots of decisions always in life, wish I had a quotation that could mesh it all together. Random comments. There are personalities all around you, some you want to be influenced by, and some you want to shield yourself from. It’s a fascinating time going out and seeing new people, talking to strangers, see what [...]
I used to be in the boat of watching ice glass, while the pilgrims pass. I used to let the moment define me, I used to think much more ‘left brained.’ However you want to articulate the ‘catch phrases,’ there have always been ‘pilgrims.’ Borrowing from the book I’m reading, we go from monkeys to [...]
What do Jason Borne, Nero, and Ragnar Danneskjöld have in common? They are all vigilant and engaged characters when the process or institution goes wrong; espionage, politics and socialism respectively. They are the ones that go ‘BOOYAH’ and put the smack down on ‘bad stuff,’ no agendas, just to tear it back down in hopes [...]
Thanks for all the positive vibes in regards to my transition in life. The internet and music make transitions in life seem seemless. The Veils put it into perspective best. ‘And the sound of that music travelledto me from that orphan skyand pulled it all in my vault’ What next? Liquidity for a while, then [...]