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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I don’t currently hate my job, but i used to hate it. That is point 1: sometimes things get better. Point 2 is that i used to write down all the things i hated about my job. This did not help. Instead i started making lists of things that were good about my job. It was a short list for a while, and sometimes the items were pretty weak (e.g. nice water fountain). seems silly, but doing this put my brain in the mode of looking for a positive. it actually helped get me through some tough days. Point 3 is to work on anything you can find that makes it more tolerable: bring a nice lunch, keep snacks available, use your vacation time (if available). self care was huge - i hated my job every day, but on days when i was tired, it was excruciating. on days when i was rested, it was merely annoying.









  • Not forever, obviously. But a lot of very small portfolio investors have bought meme stocks in enough quantities to prop up the price for a while. Take DJT, the Trump media stock. The company made less than one well-paid lawyer last year and has no serious business prospects, yet the price goes up. It sure as heck isn’t berkshire hathaway or some big institutional investor buying THAT hot garbage. If someone who rolls coal owns stock in Tesla, it’s not because they believe in decarbonizing the economy; they liked Musk’s nazi salutes and nazi tweets and his proximity to trump. “Owning the libs” is not a tested investment strategy, but my personal opinion is that a whole lotta small-time investors will lose their (very modest) life savings when the stock price of these BS companies eventually collapses.