Flaming June by Sir Frederic Leighton

It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas.

—Marvin Hagler

I’ve been coasting for the past four months. It's probably been my first extended break in over six years of grinding. My days that were once spent sitting in front of screens for 16 hours a day are now spent playing pickup basketball, learning history and science, writing blog posts, having conversations with other traders, seeing friends, going on dates, and most importantly sleeping nine hours a night.

On the surface, it sounds idyllic, yet underneath, I feel uncertainty.

The reluctance to do the 5am roadwork is easy to rationalize. Managing risk is stressful, takes up most of my days to do properly, and it fucks with my sleep. [...]

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.