Good day, got up at 8, Did my routine then 4h math (Axler). Finished 5C (mostly, will have to go back on a few things) and read 6A. Then got stuck doing 6A exercises (spent 1h 40m without much progress) and moved to something else.

What changed since yesterday? Primarily I felt stuck on 6C and not that motivated (perhaps inequality questions don't motivate me?). I'm sure I can do the problems, I just wasn't in a good state of mind.

Have to file taxes so sent parents the needed information, while I was doing this I realized tesla closed at 1145 today making me even more filthy rich.

Spent two hours reading the mrmoneymustache blog, this was basically procrastination but I did learn a few things

• Get Rich With: Good Old-Fashioned Trust

  A cynic would take issue with correlation vs causation but I don't think this is the case here. It resonates with my personal experience and other advice I've heard, Jordan Peterson has also mentioned the economic value of trust, either this is a case of "Great minds think alike" or they've all read The Rational Optimist.

• The Practical Benefits of Outrageous Optimism

  Yes! I already agreed with this point of view, but now I have a good source to point people to. I've also heard other rich people make fun of cynics before, it's a really counterproductive mindset!

• When the Back of the Napkin can be Worth Millions

  In rationalist language, the benefit of Fermi estimates to aid intuition (which in turn guides behavior). A few gold points

  1. Figure out per use costs. How often will you use those 7 seats? Per use cost is extremely high (hundreds of dollars per hour with 7 people!)
  2. Multiply by 752 to get the decade cost of a weekly expense, by 173 for monthly (note: this accounts for opportunity cost! i.e. it's compounded)

• Mr. Money Mustache’s Big Mistake Don't partner with people who aren't as committed as you (also helps if they aren't sociopaths). I've read the same advice in The Millionaire Fastlane (chapter 41)

• Get Rich With: Your Local Public Library This makes me feel really silly with the books I've bought. Sure, the library doesn't have the high level obscure math textbooks I'm reading, but I could have read them on my ereader for free.

  Also makes me jealous of people who live in a big city, the library here is small.

• Internet Sharing – How to Get Revenge on the Cable Company

  I kinda want to do this, but my parents would probably hate the idea. It could save us and our neighbors a few hundred dollars a year though, so maybe I should bring it up anyway

After all that reading about finance stuff I felt motivated to work on a software project (I'm automating something for small businesses on PayPal).

Spent 3 and a half hours doing that, though I wasted way too much time trying to automate everything at once. Should have settled with a good semi automated solution (useful) as opposed to a bad fully automated one (useless).

Tomorrow I'll work on it more, focus on making it more robust and flexible. I'll put off the "fully automated" vision until later since it would require python or something (turns out JS can't automate the "print" function on webpages, haha).

So, goals for tomorrow

• Finish 6A exercises. (Will take 3-5 hours, I think I just need to practice inequalities a ton)
• Read 6B (super easy, I already know it just non rigorously)
• Convert automation script to typescript, Make usable UI (can be done locally).