Gamestop event

 

You would think that those Wall Street traders are smart, and that your retirement money would be safe with them. Turns out, not so much. The reason why the price is skyrocketing is because short sellers sells more stock than what is available on the market. Obviously, some people are going to get burned. 

Those traders are gambling with your money because they certainly don't do so with theirs. All the previous stock market movies come to mind. This will end up in a crash. I just hope that the bad players get their comeuppance properly. 

Lesson: Never short more than what the market can bear!

2021 is sure shaping up to be an interesting year after such horrible 2020.

Hackspace 39

 

HackSpace magazine #39 is out, and it's sold out already. Do you think that the fact it has a free microcontroller inside the magazine has anything to do with it? 😄

At least it has support for C and Assembly coding. I just hope that it's not buried under micro python coding coverage. 

Too much ads

 That's an ad from YouTube. The yellow marks shows that there are 9 ads in a one hour show. This is the first one. That's not 50 seconds ad. That's 50 minutes ad. I'm thinking that there's something seriously wrong with that. Who would want to watch a 50 minute ad, 9 times, in a one hour show?

David Allen Books

 So, this year, my resolution is to Getting Things Done and Making It All Work. Both are books by David Allen.

I have way too many projects going on, and last time I checked, I have 4000 books scanned in,  and not only it's not over yet, but I also have paperwork to scan in also. David suggested that you should dump everything into the IN box. I don't think I have a big enough box for that. So, I will need to do it in stages.

On the good side, I did increase my typing speed to a minimum 60 wpm, and up to 100 wpm. Also, I'm finalizing my journal form. So, hopefully I'll get at least a handle of workflow, instead of being overwhelmed by it, like last year.

Today is a new day. The first day of the rest of my life. Welcome to the year 2021!