Career & Learning

Options Trading Crash Course: How I Learned with AI

2025-11-06T12:00:00+09:00

But somehow, we’ve now rushed into “the exchange for insurance policies and deposits.” We don’t care at all whether apples actually get delivered in the fall — we’re just purely, frantically speculating on the prices of the “insurance contracts” and “deposit contracts” themselves.

⸻ Gemini

Introduction

US share trading is pay the cash, take the shares. I am learning options by telling an AI I know none of this and asking it to teach me.

Ask a Googler: How to Think 10X, Not 10%

2025-07-29T15:25:26+09:00

Background

Since joining the company, I’ve sat through a few sessions of Grow with Google, the 10X Innovation Culture Program. They were mostly watching videos plus a bit of brainstorming, and I never felt like I got anything concrete I could actually apply. Honestly, it felt like a pure waste of dev time.

I figured it would probably just fizzle out like that. But just as I was thinking that, HR came through in a big way: they brought in actual Googlers to answer our questions in person, and told us to prepare questions in advance.