Finance

[bill_schubert]

I do occasionally watch my Schwab account.  It is not a huge amount of money.  Enough for one good size emergency but not nearly enough to interest an actual person to manage it.  BUT I've got an algorithm doing that and seems to be doing it well.  The fund is set to be pretty 'risk averse' since I really don't want to lose the money.  On a 1-12 scale with 1 at zero risk I'm at 2.  Even there we slowly but surely make a few bucks.  I've also got $10k in cash in that fund.  I was going to see if I could not move that into something that made money but turns out that is making %4.83 right now.  So NVM.

The algorithm makes changes all the time.  A little here, a little there.  Buying and selling in the background.  I get notifications of it in my management software.  And almost completely ignore it.  The last thing I want to do is play with money.  Every time I've tried to experiment (usually with fake money) I've lost out.  [See my Ethereum experiment, down 25%]  I've got software to do that, apparently.

Friday was a full rest day after about 17K steps on Thursday.  Yesterday was pickleball and about 11K steps.  Today is rest again.  And a little strength/balance work.  

Today is my third day with this as my only social media platform and it doesn't really count.

Reddit was the site I would go to with two minutes of time that I MUST FILL while waiting for the microwave.  Or during a boring section of some TV show.  

I really started to feel the drugged out feeling after a few minutes of time.  Dopamine or whatever.  If I want to do drugs I'll find some decent ones.  

Long ago, maybe 10 years, I dumped Facebook.  And Twitter dumped me.  And all the others were inconsequential.  I even have a TicToc account and app on my phone but never got into it like Reddit.

I'll go down the YouTube hole occasionally but it is usually chasing music.  Stephen Stills live performances or something like that.  Nina Simone.  Some people that I never thought I'd actually be able to see.  Google keeps trying to suck me into the YouTube dopamine mine with George Carlin performances and reaction videos to the first time some opera lady has ever heard Pink Floyd's The Great Gig In The Sky [Still, btw, one of the greatest songs 'written' in my lifetime].   But I resist the 'Family Plan' and the clutches of the system.

So I decided to stop Redditing for some time yet to be determined.   Instead of Reddit I scroll through news with AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera, 1440, and the rest.  Enough doom there without needing the overlay of emphatic opinions.

So far, so good.  It is really as much of an addiction as any I've encountered.  Not as bad as quitting smoking but still not nothing.

There are some great AI chat programs out now but nearly all of them are Apple so I may never find my own echo chamber but the idea is a little enticing.

Today is Sister Schubert's cinnamon roll day.  No relation but I wish they were.  Love that the serving size is 1 Roll.  Hah.

 

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[siglinde999]

I never got into Reddit. I do social media for several groups so end up on lots of social media sites, both to post and to track reactions. Ironically, I am less interested than ever in following much of anything there, because now it feels like work. Periodically I have to remind myself to walk away and not feed the trolls, but that gets easier all the time.