Fun! We had a potluck in the park to enjoy the newly available awesome weather in the sunnytimes half of the Seattle year. Just for hanging out, 7 people, food and drink and frisbee/hackysack/juggling and sun and conversation. Three high points for me were
I brought some “in case we forgot” items like paper plates, and everything I brought was otherwise forgot and several things I considered bringing but did not were not forgotten. Super gratifying. And I don’t know when ‘forgot’ versus ‘forgotten’ should be used.
Teaching Nadya to juggle. She learned fast. Teaching is fun and seeing someone learn is fun and these happening in a pretty tight loop is very fun. This is in contrast to trying to teach Joe to juggle at a party the next day and watching his interminably slow progress. :D
Learning about CAPM, or more specifically the interesting factoring of assets into undiversifiable risk (that component which tracks overall market growth) and diversifiable risk (that component which is uncorrelated with overall market growth).
(Notes for the interested: CAPM is a fairly mainstream model which proposes that undiversifiable risk should be commensurately rewarded, empirically that seems to maybe not be true, and some dude proposed that the discrepancies can maybe be accounted for by noting we seem to care about relative rather than absolute wealth.)
Fun! We had a potluck in the park to enjoy the newly available awesome weather in the sunnytimes half of the Seattle year. Just for hanging out, 7 people, food and drink and frisbee/hackysack/juggling and sun and conversation. Three high points for me were
I brought some “in case we forgot” items like paper plates, and everything I brought was otherwise forgot and several things I considered bringing but did not were not forgotten. Super gratifying. And I don’t know when ‘forgot’ versus ‘forgotten’ should be used.
Teaching Nadya to juggle. She learned fast. Teaching is fun and seeing someone learn is fun and these happening in a pretty tight loop is very fun. This is in contrast to trying to teach Joe to juggle at a party the next day and watching his interminably slow progress. :D
Learning about CAPM, or more specifically the interesting factoring of assets into undiversifiable risk (that component which tracks overall market growth) and diversifiable risk (that component which is uncorrelated with overall market growth).
(Notes for the interested: CAPM is a fairly mainstream model which proposes that undiversifiable risk should be commensurately rewarded, empirically that seems to maybe not be true, and some dude proposed that the discrepancies can maybe be accounted for by noting we seem to care about relative rather than absolute wealth.)