The reading group is successful and a
great source of encouragement in my life. Once a month I have the
opportunity of meeting with my fellows and having intelligent
conversation using a work important to civilization as the prompt.
The kinds of engagement that pursues is rarely achieved outside of
the academy, and in distinction to university and college campuses,
engaged in enthusiastically without attention split between the
pursuit of truth and career and academic advancement. In the
civilization I should like to be apart of these kind of conversations
would occur while in the check out line of a super market. In our
every quickly degenerating culture its good to have them at all. Our
next meeting we will consider “The Laugh of the Medusa” written
by Helen Cixous
in a shared inquiry that is sure to be provocative.
I
have found material that forms a nexus around human needs psychology
and integral psychology which I am studying and it is providing
boons. The work is immediately applicable to my case load. That
said I have been thinking about reducing my hours and lightening my
case load. Not now but in the future I will limit myself to nine
clients. The reason for this is so that I can focus on writing and
my fund both of which require a great deal of mental energy. Clients
are like books and there lives become my business. Each one an
individual enterprise. In the future I will have to lower my
concerns so that I can produce greater quality. Quality not quantity
is key to life.
This
last month proved problematic for the trading methodology I have been
testing for my futures fund. There are numerous complected
components that I have integrated and would be impossible for me to
model without a computer. Simply put if it wasn't for computers I
would not be bothering myself with this venture. I have added two
more filters for determining trading opportunities. There is good
argument to be made to computerize the entry and exits so that they
are executed automatically but I have human resistance to that
notion. I think, perhaps incorrectly, given the difficulties around
human error, that a human being should be at the trigger of those
trades. Thus leaving one discretionary element in the game based on
live human reason. Call me old fashion. But then caution is
warranted as I am trading with live funds and if I have it correct in
the next hundred days cycle I will have another income stream and profitable business which will require me to,
as I have said already, lighten my other responsibilities.
