https://jvq.net/tags/personal/ Recent content in Personal on JVQ.net: Just Very Quick Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/i-stopped-checking-my-portfolio-for-a-week-and-nothing-bad-happened/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://jvq.net/i-stopped-checking-my-portfolio-for-a-week-and-nothing-bad-happened/ <p>Not a discipline experiment. I just got busy, noticed on Thursday that I hadn&rsquo;t opened the app since Sunday, and decided to see how long I could keep it going.</p> <p>Answer: eleven days, and then I looked, and the number was a number.</p> <h2 id="the-first-two-days-were-loud">The first two days were loud</h2> <p>I hadn&rsquo;t understood how automatic the check had become. Kettle boiling, phone out. Standing in a queue, phone out. Waking at night, phone out. It&rsquo;s not really about the money at that frequency. Nothing meaningful happens to a position in the ninety seconds between two glances. It&rsquo;s a slot machine with a portfolio-shaped skin on it.</p>