Motion, mats, and mistakes

Trying things, badly but bravely.

What I Worked On/Thought About Today

I am currently in a liminal period between my previous job as an analyst at a long-only fund, and whatever comes next. I write daily stream-of-consciousness reflections about my work and thoughts. This helps clarify my thinking and documents my process, while hopefully sparking discussions with others. Sign up to follow along, and feel free to reach out to discuss!

4/14/25

I am trying this Motion AI app for scheduling, timeblocking, etc. Bit of a learning curve but seems like it could actually be quite good once I get past that.

I tried to contact yoga mat suppliers. I have no idea what I am doing. I need to be tracking all this in some sort of supplier CRM or something. Who have I contacted? Did they respond? Minimum Order Quantity? Unit price? What price could I be profitable (or at least experiment) at? Where are they based? Do they communicate via email or WhatsApp? Can they actually do the design I want? There is so much I don’t know. I am starting from zero. I have no idea if I’ll just burn through some money with little to no biz results, but I know I am going to learn a lot.

A couple people have told me not to bother with ecommerce. Just like people told me not to bother with public equities. Were they right? Are these other people right? Who knows - it’s interesting and if I can do a little experiment without staking my career on it, I think things will be alright.

I am going to get up real early tomorrow and try yoga.