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- Private work. EV today.
- 2023-Q2 carta summary: https://carta.com/blog/state-of-private-markets-q2-2023. Late stage funding increasing. More options (people aren’t exercising as much).
- Fitch US credit downgrade to AA+, markets reacted.
- Couldn’t find Zhang to change PCP.
- Booked dermatology appt.
- Chatgpt + lawdepot.com for document formation then bill lawyer for final review, shorter hours than creating manually from start.
- Bought new motorcycle gloves. Old index getting holes.
- Tried the shilajit. Interesting flavor. Sludgy.
- Nishang’s site: https://ballinwithbeta.com/ (sports, betting, modeling, factors, quant).
- Got amex platinum to churn next. 6k/6mo=100k=$1k rewards. And the $300/yr equinox. Created online account (well, had old one). Got mobile app.
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- Private work.
- BNPL is just credit but shorter term, no interest, lower limits.
- Continued reading the subtle art.
- Doctor UES. Physical. All good. Many panels, results next week. Dermatologist referral.
- More suit shopping. Armani, zegna, suitsupply (about 1/5cost of armani), more. 1 biege, 1 baby blue. 42R (sometimes L), 33, 16.5. Ordered 1 of 4 pieces for change, will try all on thurs/fri then submit for final alternations (+ shirts and shoes).
- AMZN 132.64 (136). AAPL 193.96 (195).
- Thrombosis = clotting. Much worse if pain, discoloration, etc. Could even be cancer. Likely just bulging vein otherwise.
- Shakespeare in the park! Hamlet this summer. Won the free lottery after daily entry for ~1mo.
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- Private work.
- Upgraded better toml to even better toml. Updated other plugins and vscode itself.
- AAPL/AMZN.
- 3am USWNT Portugal.
- Shilajit in himalayan rocks. Fulvic acid. Careful of impurities (heavy metals).
- Aquarium puzzle. 29.75×38.75 inches raw. So white mat 29×38. And frame 36×46. Ended up getting 36×48 no mat.
- Remember (OMS order management system) and (PMS portfolio management system) and (EMS execution management system).
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- Sonic sphere last night at the shed. Nerea italian (kasparov!)
- Iphone15 has usbc.
- (chess) FIDE world cup started.
- Dog run madison square park.
- Suit shopping.
- All filters through laundry, regular aquarium maintenance.
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- Private work.
- Soho house.
- 7lb pork butt.
- Another speeding ticket, same exact school zone on 2nd.
- Laundry.
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- Private work.
- Gramercy park.
- Don’t give to dogs: chocolate, avocado, macadamia nuts, onions, garlic, grapes.
- Ortho. Consult, treatment plan, xrays, scans, pictures. All ready for the actual trays now, scheduled next appointment (although nothing earlier than sept). ~4.5k all in.
- Plant + aquarium maintenance.
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- AWS Summit NYC. Javits Center.
- Gitlab, Splunk, Cockroach, Maria, IBM, Mongo, Red hat, Datadog, Pagerduty, Launchdarkly, Hashicorp, Snyk, Amd, Gremlin, Redis.
- Swami (VP DB/ML) keynote.
- Bedrock, Titan, foundation models.
- Protestors for palestine. Interrupted the keynote 6 times before I left. They did the same thing last year: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zbkx/no-tech-for-israeli-apartheid-protesters-disrupt-aws-conference-over-military-contract
- Private work.
- Soho house.
- Walked >5 miles in total.
- Crepuscular (not corpuscular) = active at sunrise/sunset (not nocturnal/diurnal).
- USWNT.
- MSFT fell a bit after earnings, low sales growth. GOOGL boosted. META today.
- 80% of US companies beat earnings in Q2.
- Fed, quarter point hike, 5.3%, highest in decades.
