Feb 5, 2022

On Recalling A Decade of Perseveration on Nothing

I just Tweeted this recently and thought I'd dilate a bit. I said something on Twitter about 10 years of doing quant stuff for more or less "no reason." It's still really kind of a mystery to me. Here was tweet #1: 
"10 years ago at ~52ish I fired up a broad attack on learning stuff in several quant disciplines along 3-4 fronts. No school, no degrees, no credentials. 10 years study! Whatever. I was just curious. I am comfortable with my capability in that domain."
Just a cast-off comment but a dude asked "what disciplines?" I have a placeholder on LinkedIn for that but that was in bullshit-speak so I condensed it for my asker more succinctly: