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My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy.
Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year
Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that…
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16561343 [2] https://natriumapp.com/
I've found that human help is a surprisingly cost-effective means of personal life automation. A cleaner comes by every week to clean our apartment; a company sends over a box of groceries so we don't have to shop; a nurse takes the twins out for their stroll every other day. All that put together doesn't cost more than $500 per month, and saves us literally dozens of hours. Next I'm looking for someone who'll take c…
2. Smart Home stuff like turning on the light on sunset if I’m home, turning off the lights when I leave home and multifunctional wake up calls using light and music.
3. And which I guess I’m most proud of: I’m secretary at my local volunteer fire brigade and one of the chores is to send out a weekly email to everyone with a digest of trainings and other appointments in the next week. To get this out of my head, I wrote a serverless function that queries a special google calendar for this, collects titles, start times and notes, generates an email and sends it out to our members. This lets me just manage the appointments within my calendar and takes care of all the mechanics. Fun fact: this works that good that sometimes people come to me with “yeah, about your email...” and I’m like “which E-... OH!”
I measure each every morning. Then I press one button, enter both numbers, and get on with my day.
Not full automation, but having waist circumference along with weight has really helped me get a better sense of fat loss while doing strength training.
(Workflow app, for the Workflow)
I've automated almost all of my diabetes management into a level I basically can look into graphs and decide the level I want my glucose to go. For glucose monitoring I use Dexcom G5 sensors[0] and xDrip[1] open source monitoring application for Android. Insulin delivery is handled by a Accu-Chek Spirit Combo[2] pump, that is one of the rare pumps with a Bluetooth connection. The entity deciding the basal rates and c…