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A. was worried about high school swimming class next year. What would she do with her long hair that normally I help her wash, dry, braid, brush, etc.? I said, you know, you are allowed to have shorter hair styles, if you are okay with that. So R. took a few inches off, and then inch-by-inched it over a week or so until it was a point she could care for it and also really liked it. Yay! _And Also_, I now don’t have to get up to brush and braid. Sweet, sweet extra sleep. It’s a terrible habit, and I will have to start getting up in the morning again in the near-ish future, but for right now, this is _delightful_.
Theme of the day appears to be: Exercises In Prioritization.
I have a long running joke about “Prioritization Disorder”. I faked up a DSM-type entry for it a while back, and it is core to one or more of the chapters in the probably never to be finished _I Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Brother_ project. As I am migrating that project into the new Advice Book 2 project (which is largely about using What You Want to motivate yourself, as opposed to, say, anxiety), it’s becoming clearer how Prioritization confusion and mistakes and so forth appear over and over and over again the lives of people who feel unhappy and powerless. _Not everyone_ who feels unhappy and powerless. But definitely in a lot of the people who have time, money, objective metrics of success, etc., and yet still feel unhappy and powerless.
ETA:
From Matt Levine today, quoting I think FT: “The selling included wealthy clients who owned the AT1s with leverage and were receiving margin calls, said two private bankers.” Yeesh. First, even I will struggle to make sense of this a few months from now. But right now, it is _so_ _hard_ to feel sorry for those people. Leverage. On an AT1. In a rising interest rate environment. Why.
Also, as Levine notes:
“By the way, it’s also bad if AT1s are held in margin accounts at banks! You don’t want banks to have much exposure to other banks’ AT1s, because then zeroing one bank’s AT1 causes losses at other banks and can create contagion.”
Why did the bank let those wealthy clients do that, basically.
Theme of the day appears to be: Exercises In Prioritization.
I have a long running joke about “Prioritization Disorder”. I faked up a DSM-type entry for it a while back, and it is core to one or more of the chapters in the probably never to be finished _I Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Brother_ project. As I am migrating that project into the new Advice Book 2 project (which is largely about using What You Want to motivate yourself, as opposed to, say, anxiety), it’s becoming clearer how Prioritization confusion and mistakes and so forth appear over and over and over again the lives of people who feel unhappy and powerless. _Not everyone_ who feels unhappy and powerless. But definitely in a lot of the people who have time, money, objective metrics of success, etc., and yet still feel unhappy and powerless.
ETA:
From Matt Levine today, quoting I think FT: “The selling included wealthy clients who owned the AT1s with leverage and were receiving margin calls, said two private bankers.” Yeesh. First, even I will struggle to make sense of this a few months from now. But right now, it is _so_ _hard_ to feel sorry for those people. Leverage. On an AT1. In a rising interest rate environment. Why.
Also, as Levine notes:
“By the way, it’s also bad if AT1s are held in margin accounts at banks! You don’t want banks to have much exposure to other banks’ AT1s, because then zeroing one bank’s AT1 causes losses at other banks and can create contagion.”
Why did the bank let those wealthy clients do that, basically.