Taming the market

Sell side analyst

The trade market is rife with numbers. When the brain is provided that much data, it sees all kinds of patterns in it. Peter Phams ’The Big Trade’ is about moving away from the data, trying to box the whole market vagaries in a model. The author provides us a way of reaching a percentage of confidence regarding the upward or downward trend of the market from the past performance, trying to simplify the data, following Auction Market theory.

Without getting too lost, the author uses small sets of data to prove his point on watching the performance of a company stock and boxing it.

The techniques in the book are easily adoptable.

Alphavn

The happening floor

Questions while reading the book:

Can I start a bank?

It follows
Secondary Market offering
bond funds to avoid as rates rise

Book discussion questions

After the awards, talk to Edison too

You might recognize these Loomi light from the mall. Have you seen Urbio wall garden on shark tank or 'The Chew'? What do these products have in common. They have used Kickstarter.

Don Steinberg has written The Kickstarter Handbook about the success stories. All success stories are not made the same. This becomes apparent in the Frantic Finish chapter with graphs showing the percentage of goal met as the deadline approaches. You have been approached with the tortoise telling you how far its come and how much of the way is left.




The author supplies most of the information of setting the goal, pledges and rewards (like cold water or baked good sale donations), through interviews and quotes from the successful kickstarters.

If you like ideas, their presentation or implementation, you will like this book.

10 things to know about kickstarting a book

Getting the baby to say Oui

French Twist by Catherine Crawford

A humorous book leaning more to the differences in the American and French birthing-mothering cultures (frowned upon baby showers). It pans out in the order of pregnancy - no-nos from ob-gyns, big list of shopping for the baby .

A mom on NPR  about an experiment on her kid, letting him play with ipad resulted in a natural decay of interest with time. Author Catherine Crawford allows them only on weekends. A rule is set. So kids already know the zones.

Author's way will give parents time and kids are actually on their best behaviour to spend time with adults. Sounds too good.

Article that made me want to look up writer

An article on simplicity of a product by the authors of  'Simple: Conquering the crisis of complexity'.

I have heard of an OXO product but not this one with its no need to pour out or in several times to measure the exact amount.

Target's Clearrx

Series of get over for babies

Reading the book made me feel like it was a mini pacifiers anonymous.

Fiction in storytelling

While the story is about sharing, it is kind of sad if the fish has to tear away its permanent scales to have friends. May be the story could start with the fish putting on the colourful scales somewhere, so it is clear that it wont harm the fish to give away its scales.

Rainbow nails dont look off.

Reading wishlist

Google books preview of Measurement

How to write about mathematics tweeted by Jen Luc Piquant who could easily be my favourite character in a novel.

Recently I had read about a book by a physicist.

Pyjama strings vs Book mark

Tug of war poetry - Me, myself and Irene?
Telegram poem - Buffalo war

As possible as yeast - first line of poem 'i am not done yet'. This poem compares with Emily D's work.

Can you imagine Luiclle's two headed woman? Will two headed shark give you a clue?

Confession. Conclude something in each stanza, let your last stanza be the collection of the above conclusions.

Sorrow song. Duty of a poet. Be the hundred voices.


Grange hall  in White America

Pomo Shasta Esalen
History as baby


Her endings
1. For the mute
'too many languages
for one mortal tongue'
2. If our granchild be a girl
'the feast of women,
the feeding and
being fed'


I knew of a couple of famous poems by Lucille Clifton but never felt pushed to explore her work further. Looking at this collection, I gave up even before trying by the enormity of the book. But after being lured into other collections, I have realised how an authors whole body of work speaks in a definite voice. With most poets, we need guides. Not with Lucille Clifton, atleast to enjoy it in first reading. Direct to reader poetry. 
The verse is so light (all simple worlds) that its hard to believe that one can write on weighty issues and still write on/from dreams, poetry for relatives and a letter and followups to Superman - not in the tone of 'Rescue me'. She taunts the forces be to topple her like those dolls that will never touch face with ground. 
Repetition used to good effect of gaining familiarty and belongingness.

A title begins with ellipsis leading to God.

I am about to attend a class on how o write something special for your family.
It must refer to On birth of bomani and salt.

Poetry exercise: As in the salt poem, can you think of a same thing that is different to all.

Conversions

If you have to make a decision between a recess can and pendant light and f it seems like a now or never decision, you can freeze. But what a relief it is, in those heaps of Lowe's ads lies music with a kit to convert recessed light to hanging pendant. 

Mailing in the returns to save some money, I had to guess how many stamps would go onto the envelope. I wouldnt have to if I had a postage scale. It requires

ring magnets. Did you see them maintain a distance.  

If you have your tinkering shorts on, here's a book with a persistence of vision clock, dart clock 

Animalcula young scientists guide has a section on 'The Role of creativity in Science' where the author asks the reader to draw a clown. Recently a friend asked me to draw a dog. He had some mini dog sculptures. but I had to do it without looking at inspiration. As I drew, I knew that the boy wasnt that of a dog but of sheep, but I couldnt draw it otherwise. The author says yes you have to draw to be a real scientist 

Paglum imiitates whats closest to it. A good character for children book. The piece by Seth Fried begins with a list of animals. I wondered why. Now I know. Its fiction.

Made to measure. Sue Allison

Helen keller answers the iron

Integrity

Power. We learn about Marie Curie's invention, but not all of the story.

Robert Hass points out that Adrienne Rich's poems go further than other poets.

internal gaps in Upper Broadway. I go to the next line too fast. By maintaining the gaps, there is a tension between what would have been hacked lines.

Diving into Adrienne's work

Her poetic modes

The spiders genius

'To spin and weave in the same action

from her own body, anywhere -

even from a broken web' - Adrienne Rich.

Nature - our hope stash.

My baby puts forward chewed chapathi into my mouth.

Party in progress

10 Little Hot dogs

When the book jacket read ten little hot dogs going to sleep.. I started wondering well thats not new.. Ten little monkeys on a bed start rolling out of the bed one by one reducing the count of the ones on the bed. And the answer is: You count up and then down. And each hot dog brings something to the party on the huge plush chair. To make the read more challenging, you can point the colour of things being added to the party. You can then point to similar colour objects in the room or spot the objects in the room. As the whole situation goes on in the same place, the illustration does not get too different from the previous page other than the addition of the hot dogs and the objects they like to play with.
If you like more variations on the animals going to sleep. There's seven Little bunnies by Julie Stiegemeyer.