Writing this because:
- Explaining your goals with words forces you to be specific, and being specific keeps you accountable. It's then easy to go back and determine whether you were successful or not.
- Writing leaves a record, useful for tracking progress and potentially useful to others.
- The best way to learn is to teach.
I'd like to become a Machine Learning Engineer specialized in Finance.
So I'll write a series of posts as I sail in that direction. This is the preface.
Throughout my life, I've always struggled with choice. Mostly because of its sacrificial nature. In a lot of games, and the game of spending your time is no different, saying yes to something means saying no to everything else. The tax of opportunity cost is charged to every decision. There is one problem though, we don't know how much longer we're going to be alive. That unknown radically alters the outcome of whatever you estimate to be the "best" use of your time.
Every decision is, fundamentally, a leap of faith. And you can only connect the dots looking backwards.
I'm approaching 30 years of age, and time and time again, life has taught me that it's better to commit to something, anything, than commit to nothing.
The important thing is the commitment.
So, decide, trust your gut and do the thing.
Right now, I think the thing is something approximating learning how to teach rocks how to make markets