The long-form stuff — AI, markets, management, and the occasional thing that wouldn't leave me alone.
Ordinary courtesy was never only virtue — it was policed, because cruelty to people carried a price. The machine is the first relationship where that toll is zero, and the servant, as ever, reveals the master.
No one ever got fired for taking profit. It is survival gear for beginners and a slow leak for everyone else — right on every single trade and wrong across all of them at once, emptying the account with the very discipline meant to protect it.
