Pedma

integrating new venues and building infra to support new strategies at the same time. this is why AI is useful to me. just 10x what a one person team can do on its own. im still reading every line of code, just not creating from scratch. maybe i miss something but its fine.

sometimes i find myself doing more frequent breaks or playing a video game (that tends to be 2 or 3 games), when i have a hard task to solve that I know is a headache.
but i've been trying to force myself to bruteforce it regardless. i think thats a muscle. you need to train your muscle to head on towards hard tasks and get them done rather than being stuck on them for a few days.
if i dont do this, i slack off on anything that is harder than usual. and most things i do these days are not simple, they are quite hard compared to what i was doing say a year ago. example a trade on a tail venue w

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i am eating lunch on avg at 11:30 am and having dinner at 6:30 pm.
tell me youre pushing 30 without telling me.

I am looking at a new trade idea, that I am already manually trading, that if I decide to build it out for real, will take me a few weeks.
theres a few steps i consider before making a decision to sink significant time into a project.
its quite a significant restructure and im not sure on the ROI of the task just yet. its seems juicy but have no way to tell until i do some volume.
first thing I am going to do it to do a separate simpler version and model out the effect. its quite a lot of data and theres things i can do first rather than trying to incorporate into my main infra right off the b

people really underestimate how much it goes into building a proper trade research infrastructure that is efficient and able to scale into the real world.
i am no engineer, but I work on this all day every day, and for the past week+ i've been nonstop just fixing bugs that I wasnt even aware they were lurking underneath the whole thing.
tbh now with CC its much faster to find things and fix them. I also document my code much more appropriately now, and can get to issues really fast. whereas before i had to spend a few hours just on pinpointing the issues and then creating or adapting solutions

this place is really good at hijacking attention. but this is worse than other social medias like instagram or smth. at least when i watch insta reels for more then usual i know its dumb. here i can easily call it research while laughing at 100 shitposts with absolutely no value.

these hacks are terrible right. but the way i see it is that I am trading crypto for the extra return compared to what i'd get in tardfi. its already baked into it that the stuff i do is of riskier nature than the less risky stuff. otherwise i wouldnt get paid more for it. so cursing at it is not helpful.
my job every day on top of the stuff we already have to do to keep edge, is to make sure that all my risks are controlled and diversified. to keep the book mostly diversified most of the time so that a single tail event doesn't take me out of the game. i used to work "most" there on purpose b

sometimes I look back at my career choices and I think
man... Id have been a really good grifter if I kept at it
happy weekend everyone

watching the sopranos for the first time, and just found out that James Gandolfini passed away in 2013.

started reading the classics of Portuguese literature once more. last time i touched it was in high school because i was forced to do so. a lot of it is so good and i didn't even realized because i was distracted being an ape with my mates not paying attention to classes.