I start my day with DDN and would really miss it. I have a pretty good background and knowledge of markets, including sentiment, economics, history, and charts, and I have 30 years of experience in the commodity brokerage business. But I would really miss your specific recommemdations for etfs, timing and options. I understand what you are doing, but I do not want to devote the time to finding the right ETF and your timing, although seemingly consistently early, is far better than mine. Please dont quit. It would create a hole in my life.
What if you have fewer subscribers, but the ones you have love what you do? Please don't quit. I subscribe to other newsletters and none are nearly as fun. Great Macro Dirt Podcast today.
Every home schooled kid I know learned to read from Calvin and Hobbes. This is where those vocabularies come from. I use it for tutoring to expand vocabulary while having fun. True genius. New Yorker Cartoons are also educational.
You make me think, you make me laugh, you keep me interested & touched by every piece. I would continue to seek out and follow whatever I can find of your work. It is greatly admired and every keystroke or nob turn will go down as another day touched by a very gifted and creative soulful artist and one of my very favorites!
Carpe’ diem- whatever that looks like for you. Just don’t forget hit the share button.
Why does the 'top' matter? Ego? Choose your path, do your best, be kind.
The first financial advisor my wife and I hired, we were both 26, asked a question I've held in my head for 33 years -- 'when would you like work to be optional?'
That's the right question, for me. It assumes multiple variables -- income, spending, lifestyle. It changed my frame from 'get to the top' to 'get enough.'
For sure, we each need interests outside 'making money.' Making money can be pretty straightforward, as I've read from you many times in the years I've been reading you. There's more to this 'nasty, brutish and short' life than money.
Go get some of that!
For me, there's a movie clip from 'The Gambler,' and a poem / obituary from Kurt Vonnegut that make so much sense.
When you stop loving what you're doing, that's when you should quit. Life is short and you never know what will happen.
I stopped at 50 as I had enough money and work was no fun anymore. My wife and I traveled the world for 20 years until she suffered a debilitating stroke. She's physically and mentally disabled now, and I'm her caregiver.
I loved Richard Russell too. Great stories and sound advice, like you.
My very wise mother told me the best time to leave is when everyone wants you to stay. Good advice. Too bad Joe Biden didn't think of that.
I like your approach to trading. I want to think I can afford 'The Daily Dirtnap'. Someday.....
But I am concerned that you are being distracted by your other interests. And that is OK. You be you. Candid and self reflective. I will be me and read you thoughtfully, critically and we can remain friends.
I start my day with DDN and would really miss it. I have a pretty good background and knowledge of markets, including sentiment, economics, history, and charts, and I have 30 years of experience in the commodity brokerage business. But I would really miss your specific recommemdations for etfs, timing and options. I understand what you are doing, but I do not want to devote the time to finding the right ETF and your timing, although seemingly consistently early, is far better than mine. Please dont quit. It would create a hole in my life.
What if you have fewer subscribers, but the ones you have love what you do? Please don't quit. I subscribe to other newsletters and none are nearly as fun. Great Macro Dirt Podcast today.
Every home schooled kid I know learned to read from Calvin and Hobbes. This is where those vocabularies come from. I use it for tutoring to expand vocabulary while having fun. True genius. New Yorker Cartoons are also educational.
"By the way, on a scale of 1 to Lizzo, I am about a four." , best line
You make me think, you make me laugh, you keep me interested & touched by every piece. I would continue to seek out and follow whatever I can find of your work. It is greatly admired and every keystroke or nob turn will go down as another day touched by a very gifted and creative soulful artist and one of my very favorites!
Carpe’ diem- whatever that looks like for you. Just don’t forget hit the share button.
Why does the 'top' matter? Ego? Choose your path, do your best, be kind.
The first financial advisor my wife and I hired, we were both 26, asked a question I've held in my head for 33 years -- 'when would you like work to be optional?'
That's the right question, for me. It assumes multiple variables -- income, spending, lifestyle. It changed my frame from 'get to the top' to 'get enough.'
For sure, we each need interests outside 'making money.' Making money can be pretty straightforward, as I've read from you many times in the years I've been reading you. There's more to this 'nasty, brutish and short' life than money.
Go get some of that!
For me, there's a movie clip from 'The Gambler,' and a poem / obituary from Kurt Vonnegut that make so much sense.
Clip, 'Fortress' scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPjNFp0diWE
Vonnegut, on Joseph Heller: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7345831-joe-heller-true-story-word-of-honor-joseph-heller-an
Good luck Jared. Thanks for writing, thanks for sharing.
When you stop loving what you're doing, that's when you should quit. Life is short and you never know what will happen.
I stopped at 50 as I had enough money and work was no fun anymore. My wife and I traveled the world for 20 years until she suffered a debilitating stroke. She's physically and mentally disabled now, and I'm her caregiver.
I loved Richard Russell too. Great stories and sound advice, like you.
Dave
@Khe Hy did it
I love the Calvin Hobbes story. Had not heard that one
My very wise mother told me the best time to leave is when everyone wants you to stay. Good advice. Too bad Joe Biden didn't think of that.
I like your approach to trading. I want to think I can afford 'The Daily Dirtnap'. Someday.....
But I am concerned that you are being distracted by your other interests. And that is OK. You be you. Candid and self reflective. I will be me and read you thoughtfully, critically and we can remain friends.
Jim Brown: NFL for nine and then the Dirty Dozen.
And, yet, Gatsby's Last Tycoon was on track to be his best work.
Re your literary project...
Coach: I'm working on a novel, going on six years now -- I think I might finish it tonight.
Diane: You're writing a novel?!
Coach: No, reading one.
My bad, Jared..."Fitzgerald's Last Tycoon" (the unfinished manuscript and author's notes were a better read than Gatsby)
Uncanny timing. 10 years here too, writing for the finance folks
https://www.khehy.com/last-radreads
I still read Calvin & Hobbes comic strips every day. Bill Watterson was the best!