This is my weekly braindump. You can read it, but I don't write it for you, I write it for me.
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This is my weekly braindump. You can read it, but I don't write it for you, I write it for me.
Newsletter #59 - Update! My local coffee bar has a promotion: 150 THB for coffee and cake. As a child or student I would have tried to choose the most expensive cake, and the most expensive coffee. As students, we even theorized that alcohol price labels should contain the amount of alcohol you would get per euro. So we could optimize for that. I used to check the different European Amazon websites to find the cheapest price for a book. I could save 1-2 euros. Somehow my dominant optimization...
Newsletter #58 - Alea Iacta Est ! I write to document my thinking at that exact moment in time. I wrote the draft for this newsletter last week, in the moment. 10 days ago Monday Toyota announced they wouldn’t extend my contract as the USD JPY exchange rate is making me significantly more expensive Two days later on Wednesday they informed that due to headcount pressure they also won’t be able to convert me to full time if I would want to. That means the Toyota story comes to an end. I’m very...
Newsletter #56 - Deep Pockets! Money I just finished a podcast about an ex-prisoner who did bank loan fraud, acquired millions, got caught, spend around ten years in prison, got released and had to start from nothing. And he said he was miserable when he had the millions, and happy when he had nothing. There are similar stories, the book Wild Swans describes a similar maximum happiness at the moment when they're most poor. And yet, money seems to be the solution to many challenges. Where we...