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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • I design battery-operated things with custom batteries specified and partly-designed by me, and it takes like 10x the design effort, 20% more parts cost, and compromises on capacity, size, weight, and/or watertightness, as you mentioned. The design effort in particular is just killer - so many more interfaces to deal with, when a non-removable pack can just be shrink-wrapped and dropped into a pocket.

    It’s worth it, I’m not saying it isn’t. But I do sympathize a bit.

    Of course, I’m working at a company with i employees, not tens of thousands. Probably easier for Nintendo to throw manpower at it.


  • I don’t day trade and I never will, but I have been boglehead-style investing for 15 years or so, with a substantial sum now. I suspect that maybe the specific thing you’re seeking will end up being “stop day trading.”

    I tune out the noise. I don’t invest hoping to make 10% in a day (and I see that more as gambling, anyway), I am hoping to make 200% in 15 years, and the daily volatility just isn’t a factor on that timescale.

    So when I “lost” 100k in March, I didn’t think about it at all until I updated my monthly data. And then it was just to chuckle and say “bet that’ll rebound soon.”