• Monday

    • Ordered new conical burr grinder and a better drip machine.
    • Looks like FSB will offer 3.25 for a 30yr fixed.
    • Got both preapproval letters now.
    • Stock trading halted for 15 minutes right after opening bell when the S&P fell 7%. This triggers automatically. Level 2 (which we did not reach) is another 15min halt at 13%. Level 3 is at 20%, where trading is halted for the remainder of the day. These have only been around for a few years, and are only really meant to stop algos from destabilizing.
    • Looked through a ton of listings, sent preferences to peter for tours tomorrow.
      • 970k, north of west village, 100 BANK STREET, 5A
      • 849k, north of west village, 14 HORATIO STREET, 6B
      • 999k, north noho, 35 EAST 10TH STREET, 3C
      • 999k, north noho, 2 EAST 12TH STREET, 6TH
      • 949k, north noho, 12 EAST 14TH STREET, 4F
      • 879k, north noho, 111 FOURTH AVENUE, 7F
      • 899k, west village, 65 MORTON STREET, 3H
      • 895k, west village, 67 MORTON STREET, 5B
      • 625k, noho 308, MOTT STREET, 2F
      • 995k, north of soho, 131 THOMPSON STREET, 2F
      • 950k, east greenwich, 69 WEST 9TH STREET, 7K
      • 995k, east greenwich, 45 WEST 10TH STREET, 7B
      • 899k, north greenwich, 49 WEST 12TH STREET, 5G
      • 790k, west village, 352 WEST 12TH STREET, 4CD
    • Tagged up with Bruey. Works in fidi 80% and midtown 20%.
    • Netflix uses Druid (db, apache) for some of their realtime analytics. https://netflixtechblog.com/how-netflix-uses-druid-for-real-time-insights-to-ensure-a-high-quality-experience-19e1e8568d06.
    The True Size of Africa Map
    cool visualization of how big Africa actually is
    • Placed orders to liquidate all my robinhood holdings. Going conservative for all the chaos lately, as well as moving the funds into a down payment for a home out here.
      • They didn’t execute for a few hours, so I tried to cancel the sell orders. The button just spun, didn’t get confirmation of execution or cancelling. It’s not just a lack of bids, the actual service wasn’t even working because cancellations were nonfunctional.
      • Lots of other people confirming the same thing.
      • RH is such a shit platform. This, the infinite margin glitch, the leapyear bug, the downtime.
      • 6 hours later, the orders finally failed (instead of pending). This was before close, so I placed them again and they executed. Maybe 3k loss since Friday?
      • Deactivated robinhood gold. Removed options trading.
      • Starting zeroing out the account. Have to do it incrementally (the max withdrawal in a trading day is 50k), and the proceeds from my sellout need to settle.
      • Rated it 1 star in the app store (lowest rating). Uninstalled.
      • Will move everything to TD or Schwab after this coronavirus recession and my mortgage are in a good place.
      • I’ll look for class actions in the future.
    • John’s of Bleecker review from yesterday: Delicious. Not GOAT, but delicious. I was more impressed with efficiency: it was 5pm on a Sunday, and I got in and out with a beer and large pizza in under 30min.
    • A very interesting take on anxiety: it’s the immune system of the mind. Uses old attacks to figure out how to handle new attacks. https://www.adamjuliangoldstein.com/blog/anxiety-algorithm/. This type of flexibility is incredible, and it must be to mitigate novel threats, but it also means that it jumps to worst-case scenarios sometimes. Understand that, and ride with it. Separate the thought from reality.
    • Remember that corona usually presents as a fever and a cough first. A healthy immune system will fight it off like a cold.
    • Healthcare professionals are testing and evaluating patients by phone primarily, and then in their cars secondarily to avoid them coming into the clinic/elevator/etc.
    • 0.7% dilution.
    • Llama San with Tracy! A peruvian/japanese place.
      • Sooooo nice to see a familiar face. Was the first time in over a week I’ve had an in-person convo with someone I know.
      • 2 bartenders were from the East Bay back home!
    • Dry cleaned my blue suit and all dress shirts. Will deliver back in 48 hours.
      • It’s basically the same logistics as the laundering process, soak and then spin, but it uses perchlorethylene instead of soap/detergent for the soak part. Perc is still a liquid, not a gas, so it’s not technically “dry”.
      • Don’t do it every week. It wears the fabric out more quickly. Maybe once a year for suits, or acute treatment as spills/stains happen.
    • Everything in NY is so expensive. Townhouses that share walls are 20-30 mil. Rent is 3-6k. Dinner is $100.
    • Bridge and tunnel people = people from new jersey or brooklyn etc who come into manhattan.
    • More subdistricts: meatpacking, hudson yards, alphabet city.
    • Trains are way easier north-south than east-west.
    • Live in the west, go out in the east.
    • Most people go out to dinner many nights per week. Kitchens are tiny at home. The villages have great food.