A city mourns: selling the call and spilling the tea
I sit here with a coffee laced with cacao—fuel for both kinds of STEM—and watch a city mourn. It’s the feeling of being in Manhattan on November 5th after an election: the air thick with disbelief, the collective psychology still adjusting to what already happened.
I’m reminded of a key insight: never become irrational or dogmatic about anything poised to collapse into asymmetric variance. That’s where consensus dies. One moment, the impossible remains impossible; the next, it’s the only outcome anyone can see.
And yet, the lesson isn’t about recognition. No one praises the person who called it right. Especially not when the call was to not play the popular game.
prediction choke II
It’s 4- 4 on bottom of the 9th. I see the dodgers celebrating a repeat on the blue jays mound haha!
In my case, it wasn’t about buying puts on the Blue Jays—it was about selling the call. Choosing not to chase the euphoria of Game 7 tickets, even when the energy of the city screamed otherwise. Instead, I monetized the moment differently: I bought a high-end gaming laptop, roughly equivalent to the price of admission to the illusion.
That was the hedge—the rational contrarian’s move. Protect yourself, reallocate capital toward something with lasting computational yield rather than ephemeral hope.
No one in Toronto will clap for that.
But that’s fine.
Rationality rarely earns applause.
Jen-Hsun Huang’s leather jacket fund
There’s no way I was going to miss Game 7 of the World Series — but then I thought about Jen-Hsun Huang’s leather jacket collection and decided to buy a GPU instead.
It’s the quiet decision to step outside collective emotion, to see variance before it breaks, to live in reality while everyone else is still pricing fantasy.
A priceless nightmare
To be stuck in the Skydome watching that kind of nightmare — priceless, but in the worst way. On the bright side, the spec out GPU arrives Monday. Reviewers claim the silver chassis runs cooler than the black one. We’ll see about that.