Archive for January, 2006
Fall Asleep Faster!
Yesterday the topic of having trouble napping came up in the uberman Yahoo group (link here). I wrote a method of falling asleep faster here. After rereading it and seeing how it could be quite helpful to others (such as Chris Beams) I’ve decided to restate it here in my blog. Hopefully this can help you too.
Surprisingly I haven’t had any trouble falling asleep for my naps. Only when I was at a friend’s house did I stay awake through two attempted naps in a row. One of the reasons for my success is the method I’ve developed to speed up falling asleep. It doesn’t always work if I have something gnawing at my mind but 95% of the time it does the job and does it well.
Photo series: Wide Angle Christmas
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My parents gave me a 0.45 wide angle lense for my camera for Christmas. Here are the first photos I took with it.
http://www.thedanexperiment.com/album/cat/Wide%20Angle%20Christmas
Book Review: The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing
I had this book on my shelf for quite some time before I started reading it a few weeks ago. I should have picked it up sooner! The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Helly
One of the things I liked the most about this book is chapter 2, “How The Masters Tell Us To Invest.” This chapter reviews the strategies of some of the top 6 investors of all time. He then compares and contrasts their methods, giving a concise summary of the things they all agree on. He then takes this combination and gives his method of stock picking.
Polyphasic Sleep 2 Week Summary
The past two weeks have been very interesting and educational to say the least. I now know more about sleep than ever before. This article is me sharing that knowledge with you in hopes that it can help you improve your sleep as well.
For me, slowly adjusting to polyphasic sleep just made more sense. Your body doesn’t like rapid change. Slow adjustment can make adaptation much easier and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the past 2 weeks. It has made adjustment take much longer (and I’m still not 100% there), however I believe that it has made it much easier.
Watch for a horde of posts!
I have a bunch of things I want to post so watch for multiple posts per day over the next week. Here’s a list of topics:
- Polyphasic sleep – I’m going to post a summary of everything to this point. I think I have a lot of useful information to post on this topic.
- Book reviews – I’ve always read a lot of books. I’m going to start posting reviews of various books that I’ve read of the past few years from a variety of topics including equity investing, real estate, true crime, and small business. Most of the reviews will be of educational materials such as the current book I’m reading, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Helly
Forex Trading Update
Earlier this week I had a bit of a blow out on the Oanda account. I lost $6500 (6.5%) in one day and then another $1500 (1.5%) the next. I also lost about 5% more on the NF account. I realized that the one thing missing from my Oanda BoxOptions strategy was real research and mathematical pricing. While I understand how the system works I wasn’t looking at the underlying math used to calculate the price and how to calculate if I was taking a low risk trade.
Happy New Years!
Happy New Years everyone! Have you set your goals for 2006? How about 2011? If the answer was no to either of these you need to set them today. How can you achieve anything without knowing what you want to achieve?
Even if it’s a simple goal like my #2 (post a blog entry a day) it will help motivate you. You’ll then think about other goals to set and what you can accomplish.
