Looking for a win

I can't really complain that much about my life in comparison to others, but that is the thing about living this life - it is us who experiences it - not others. Sometimes, it does feel that forces are working against me, but I know that it is a feeling only and the world doesn't care one way or another, it just does what it does, when and how it does it. The effects it has on my is my business and at the moment, I am a bit disappointed.

Meh, I'll get over it.

The training went relatively well for the first day on nowhere near enough preparation work, but I will try to get more prep done tonight so that tomorrow runs more smoothly. I am a direct engagement trainer by style and remote delivery is a bit strange still for me. Luckily however, I am generally interesting and funny enough to get by and make people feel comfortable - something that is necessary to make it through a 6+ hour online training session.

It is important to find points of interest to focus on and go more into depth, allow self-discovery and skill growth through curiosity, rather than bullet point steps. It is a funny conflict though, people want freedom, but for the most part, will fall back on the defaults presented to them - in the moment however, they want options. I don't like having options taken away from me either - does anyone? What if the option given is the right option and the alternatives will not get a great result? People want the best, want the freedom to choose, but also want to be protected from making a bad decision.

Yet if you think about it and while there may be no perfect, there is only one "most correct" decision at any point in time - I wonder what a life would look like if for a week, a month or a year, the "best decision" was made every time. From a trading perspective, that would mean hitting every peak to sell and every trough to buy - I don't know how to calculate this, but what if with the starting point of 1 bitcoin, a daily buy and sell of the total amount was made at the high and low - after 365 days, how much Bitcoin is held? I am pretty sure it would be significant.

The same could be said when it comes to the other decisions in life also, choosing the right subjects at school, the right friends, the right partners, the right degree, employment decisions and time to have children or sell a house. I wonder if there will ever come a time where a highly predictive model could be generated by an AI that was intertwined across networks and lives to suggest a course of action - would people listen to it, or would they bet against it - believing that they know better?

I think this is already answered through the algorithms that affect our decision making online - we take the default option - we listen to the recommendations given by an app, but don't take our own advice that we would happily offer others. We don't tend to listen to ourselves enough to act upon what we say - which is why so few people who are in crypto are actually - in crypto. They tell others to buy because of the future, but don't buy themselves because they can never find the funds, but do find the funds for a variety of other things, like entertainment. "Bitcoin will go to a million dollars - but I am not going to buy any."

At that value, 0.5 of a Bitcoin and I pay off my house. Do you think that Bitcoin will get there one day?

This is not really the win I am talking about in the title, but it sure would help. It is very strange to be considering house renovations whilst simultaneously in negotiations about the terms of furlough. I thought it was funny today as one of my colleagues asked for it to be called furlough instead of layoff as it sounds better and doesn't feel as bad. Strange, the result is the same no matter what it is called - at least for me.

I chose to take a cut in salary as well as a reduction of part of my holiday money, in exchange for share options in an attempt to limit the needs for layoffs in the future - and if enough people do similarly, we could avoid a lot of the immediate "furlough" pain. Enough people is the issue as most will make the decision to take what they can now, whether they need to or not. One of the things in Finland is that while the past was different, people haven't been accustomed to going without for a long time - it is kind of my status quo.

The position has probably been handy for me to become a hodler, as while I might think about it regularly, I have never actually come close to selling any crypto to cover expenses - something I am grateful for, as it means I have survived life without hitting the economic bottom - at least of late. It hasn't always been the case - and I don't want to ever go back there, as I do not enjoy the stress of economic scarcity in the same way I like the stress of time scarcity - where I tend to be most creative and perform the best.

Well, talking about time scarcity - I best get out of the office and head toward home - who knows, perhaps I will get a win along the way.

Taraz