Waste My Time

Hey WSO,

I need some help: the market's quieter than I care to admit and I'm finding I need to fill more and more of each day with distractions.

My current boredom-busters are as follows: - Reading the news (BBC, FT, Bloomberg, Reuters) - Industry gossip (eFinancial Careers, Business Insider) - WSO frivolity - Fantasy Premier League - FPL-related sites - Fashion / lifestyle (Esquire)

Would appreciate any suggestions to help stave off early-onset dementia. A few restrictions: - No porn (for obvious workplace reasons) - I can't wear earbuds / a headset - Anything finance related (in the theme of BB's Matt Levine) wins bonus points

Thanks in advance!

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Agreed, do duolingo and pick up a bit of language. It's actually really good in getting you conversational relatively quickly and kind of addicting once you start getting into it

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I like the website, Bogleheads.org. It is basically an investing forum inspired by the late John Bogle, the former CEO of Vanguard. Topics include but are not limited to investment theory, personal finance and consumer issues. These days, I participate mostly in the consumer issues sub forum, where I can learn how to fix lots of things.

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I'd say that's true. The only thing I've found on it to be useful is for a few very specific tax related questions, it seems like there's a couple CPAs on the site so there's good insight on super specific accounting-related minutiae

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

do you have a dual phone headset/computer speaker like I do? If so, then podcasts are great. Otherwise, consider self-improvement, as others have said. I've got time, given that my company is going through an 'interesting' patch right now, and am spending a lot of time on datacamp. Once you know all the finance stuff, programming is the next step. I feel this is more useful than the FRM that I almost signed up for. (already a charterholder)

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

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