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Is that completely true though? The human brain is quite efficient in energy usage running on what it would take to power a lightbulb. I read in the book Psych that it doesn't take more energy to think hard thoughts. But I do relate that 'will power' for a day seems to be finite and if you spend it ...

Brokers provide an option to create a public URL with your account' s P&L statement but this does not include the ETF transactions for some reason. It looks like a git contribution graph where the higher/lower your profit/loss for the day, the greener/redder that day's square will be coloured. P...

Income rose by 20%, expenses fell by 20% and Savings increased by 44.1% month-on-month. Expense rate was 25.05% and its inverse Savings Rate was 74.95%. Total savings grew by 4.13%. Total savings will last for 11 years until November 2035 if I spend like I spent in March 2024. The amount saved in th...

Clockwise from top-left: First: Pie chart of total expenditure divided into Financing Expense, Transport Expense and Food. Second: Pie chart of total income divided into Operational, Investing and Rental Incomes. Third: Day-wise income. Fourth: Day-wise expenses. https://i.imgur.com/pZftUL1.png Trav...

Found one ear bud inside its charging cover fallen on the curb at a turn near home but let rickshaw driver take it. Found a discarded pair of shoes with soles broken near office, brought them home, needs replacement but could be useful as gym shoes after present ones give out. Giving wired earphones...

bostonimproper wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:36 am

getting people in the doors and locked into their partner cloud provider ecosystem

Incidently GCP has nearly waved off its egress fees starting last month.

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From the book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Has anyone read Surrounded by Idiots and Surrounded by Psychopaths: How to Protect Yourself from Being Manipulated and Exploited in Business (and in Life)? From the back cover: Using the same simple four-color system of behavior classification that made Surrounded by Idiots so popular, Surrounded by...

Got old phone repaired. There is an iPhone 7 lying in the flat whose password father forgot, then the SIM expired of 3 months of no recharge so cannot receive OTP for resetting password. The phone was a gift, the SIM is registered on gifter's wife's name, and dad is deadbeat lethargic. I had colated...

Savings rate was 38.09% Expense rate was 61.91% Aggregate income fell to a third less than that of the previous month whereas aggregate expense rose to 6 times than that of the previous month. Aggregate savings rose by a paltry 1.82% Phone died leading to a replacement cost. Capital expenditure to b...

Congrats but your discoverdata site is down. Consider putting up that content on a forum thread perhaps?

1. Where are the Customers’ Yachts by Fred Schwed 2. Devil take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor 3. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. The first book is in the public domain. I haven't read the second but it was heavyly referenced in this memo of Howard Ma...

Sabaka wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:39 am

Time to set out some goals for 2024...

6. Read 1 book per month.

Personalised recommendation for you: How the Scots Invented the Modern World

Resources to understand systems thinking:

What Is Systems Thinking?: https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/ ... s-thinking

• Introduction to systems thinking: https://lethain.com/systems-thinking/

• Thinking in Systems by Donella-H-Meadows

Income in December was 15.52% more than the income in November making it the month with the highest income on record with a margin of 6.66% over the month with the second highest income which was October 2023. Income from operating activity contributed 57.65% towards total income Rental Income contr...

Lowering expectations.

TechCrunch| Google’s best Gemini demo was faked https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-was-faked Here are some more relevant reading materials if one wants to take a deep dive: Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemi...

November 2023 was the most expensive month on record so it deserves going into the 91 line items of transactions: Operating expenses were food at 19.5% and transportation at 15.09% of total expenses. Remaining were financing expenses and charity. Savings rate was 82.64% with 28 month rolling average...

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm