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Writing on the craft rather than the tape: process, risk, psychology, method. Notes carry no stat that isn’t linked to the test that produced it — the tested findings live in The Weekly Drop. Newest first.
A child tests a fence to find out it’s real.
Ernest Becker spent a career on why limits make a person able to act rather than restricting them. Every step of that argument transfers to a trading desk — why the blowup follows the win rather than the loss, why an unenforced rule is worse than no rule, and why whatever you put on the scoreboard is the thing you will defend.
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