“Read at your own risk”
Lydia Kims
I just turned forty years old. Its an improvement for any tree to add a ring to the stem and by that logic I see this milestone to be an improvement. Just like we see the iphone 17 as an improved iphone 16.
Lydia Kims 40 is an improvement of the previous Lydia Kims 39 model. Incredibly simple logic.
What are the specs? How is she better?
The 40 model is more humble.
The 40 model boasts less.
The 40 model is relentless.
The 40 model is the top model.
There you have it.
Get your Lydia Kims in stores now!
Dear diary, I stumbled upon a new investment strategy that I don’t know will work out as intended but I started it anyway.
I truly love it because it’s next level complicated.
What you do is you buy put contracts of a given company, I chose the Charles Schwab bank, the contracts have a date of execution roughly three months from date of purchase.
Then, every week, you sell put contracts of that same stock at a slightly different strike price, depending on my outlook on the coming week.
This makes it so that I receive a premium for selling the puts. My hedge against the risk is the long put. The risk is therefor capped by the spread between the strike prices of the further long put and closer short put, minus the premium of the further put plus the premium of the closer put.
Essentially I then have to close the long put about a month before expiry to get some of the premium I paid for it back. And then repeat the strategy looking three months ahead.
In the last year, Schwab had a few weeks where it dropped more than 5%, in essence it historically has weeks that crash my strategy. Meaning that the premiums collected weekly must supercede the cost of those crashes.
My math roughly assumes that im good if those weeks are less than a tenth of all the weeks if I cap the max loss to four premiums. That would equate that if every fifth week we’d burn then we would be pretty flat. Given historical data I might catch wind here, into my sails.
The math here sounds a bit too arbitrary dealing with a monte carlo equation.
I still love the concept and I gotto try it!
Let’s see if this bird can fly.
Im reading a book on magic, its a thick book.
As a small kid, four years of age, I remember myself searching for books on magic. I opened one book after another at my grandfathers house, but I didn’t find the book. I couldn’t read, yet I knew what I was searching for, and I knew that I never found it.
36 years later, I have collected and read, countless books that are all aimed at magic, and perhaps all are. But not necessarily the magic I was seeking, the magic I still seek, that still evades me.
Now, I have under my hands, a book on magic, and I am sure its not the exact book I was looking for, but it is a very interesting book.
It has led me to ask for a magic wand, that is now in the making by a certain Frater Cognitor.
Faith is required?
I have a somewhat challenging endeavour at hand
It started when I received a phone call at work:
,, Lydia, is that you?”
Yes, thats me
“Thank god, im told you are the one that can help”
Whats the issue?
“The factory will be bulldozed next monday”
A year later I sat down with owners of one of Icelands larger construction companies, the one with the bulldozers, and wired them 29M
That was a final showdown and all bets settled.
Now I am responsible for running a corporation that now owns this factory.
The challenge is twofold:
Logically financial math must be tuned to win
Emotionally relations must be positive
What is imperative is that these two must be interwoven:: softly
I have always been a fan of happiness, almost like a birdwatcher, waiting, pursuing, pressing forth in order to situate oneself in the midst of the best birds. And I have come to think… if birdwatching is really done well via pursuit. Just like many others have contemplated the pursuit of happiness.
Taking the algebra further, I ask, from where do birds come from? A confusing question right? Just like asking where happiness comes from?
In practicality, to understand a phenomenon, seeking the root of it has shown more results than seeking its reach. Understanding why it reaches where it does is a better question and on par with figuring out the whole concept of what happiness really is.
If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking.
Happiness looks, sounds and feels like it is an uplifting energy. It even goes so far as to influence biological production of chemicals that if science isn’t a total fool, seem to have several positive effects on lengthening lifespans.
Certainly seems like happiness influences health moreso than health influences happiness, at least that’s pretty obvious by examining a lot of studies on what effects happiness has on health and longevity.
I can’t also but recall a many often of times where people express how they weren’t happy as chasers of externalities.
I am writing this as a stark reminder to myself that happiness is very likely, not an effect, but a causality.
And as such, I must remember to regularly remind myself that I, must be the fountain of happiness.
I don’t know what happiness is really, its too complicated to understand, but I do think that I can create it!
We are all eternal fountains of happiness, we just seem preoccupied with forgetting it. Maybe I can try to be a good role model and radiate happiness in all directions. Im curious to know if I’ll run out of juice or if the power just grows stronger.
Only time will tell!