Pedma

one thing I need to get better is answering DM's or private messages in a timely manner.
I often leave people on hold because I can't answer straight away and then something else comes up or I forget.
I don't like that. I need to to improve on it.

some days I have a dull task I need to get on with , and I procrastinate on it because I know how dull it is. but the more I procrastinate on it, the more I delay the important stuff I have to work on. just get it done with, spend the day on it, so you can carry on tomorrow.

registering an account in crypto exchanges under my company's name in Europe.
government: "oh you have to pay this €200 fee for this license for AML"
me: "ok, so what information you need?"
government: "no information, just sign here, pay and stfu."

sometimes I want to understand all the concepts and terms macro tradoors use to sound smart on the timeline while making no money.

how does one know if he really paid a fair price, even if good relative to mid, on an illiquid perp, where the underlying is closed? you're just paying whatever the market says is fair at that time, not the actual fair, even if your execution was great.
what I mean is, if I know btc is worth 90k today at major exchanges, and I pay 90k for it, I know I got a mid deal (pun intended) for it.
but if I'm trading AAPL perp and AAPL is not open like if it's weekend, and you're trying to get a good fill, you might get a good price relative to mid at that time, but that mid is irrelevant in the whole "

practice creating good, scalabale code, even on projects that are meant as a oneoff.
first, those oneoffs sometimes become good ideas and then its a mess to work with.
and finally, it helps us build the habit of creating good code that translates into the main projects.

Idk guys, but I think using LLM's to code is making me a better communicator.
you either communicate extremely well your intentions, to the maximum detail of what you want done, or the AI just abstracts a lot of stuff you don't want.

imagine as a man your biggest insecurity is to be bald.
pretty cool to be bald.

I met a CT guy in Lisbon a few months ago at a cafe, and he was talking to me about XMR and privacy. he said he had a large bag of it. I think at ~250's. can't find him on twitter anymore. I wonder if he held.

spending a decent 20min-30min a morning trying to fill positions at an acceptable price. still worth my time, but need to automate this thing. 80/20 solutions right now.

the avatar 3 movie is so bad. embarassingly bad. I haven't even seen the 2 yet but probably won't after this.
why do people insist on ruining perfectly good movies.
waited 13 years to release another one only for the 3rd to be slop.
was the script made with chatgpt or smth.

don't care about fancy cars, fancy houses, fancy watches, fancy anything. I value the optionality to work on what I want, when I want, go to a cafe in the middle of the afternoon, read a book about a topic I'm deeply engaged with, buy a ticket to the cinema in the middle of the week at the midnight session, not worried about tomorrow's work.
maxxing for a simple life, so that one can live free of financial burden, and truly free.

a few months ago, I noticed that the system I had deployed, was flawed in design. I thought I was taking a certain type of exposures, but wasn't really the case once I dug through the data.
the interesting thing is, that flaw, after I understood it, is what's driving a lot of my PnL this year, at a much better rate than what was the traditionally accepted way.
it's being able to handle this current environment, specifically because of that, which I perceived to be a flaw at the time.
I wouldn't have been able to find it, perhaps, had I just delayed the deployment to real live market.
deploy

only on the job you can find the real problems of real world interaction. I am finding so much stuff I was not aware off even 1 year ago just by designing this new infra to handle a scalable multi-system, multi-exchange solution, that I didn't even consider.
get in there, do the job, do a few things better each day and ask questions later.
waiting for the perfect momentum to do something is not the optimal way to do things.