QUIET WORK Vol. I
1000 days
A marketable securities portfolio begins like a garden in strange soil—planted with hope, watered with uncertainty. The first thousand days in the stock market have been a season of learning how little control one truly has over weather, and how much over the act of tending.
Seasons turn. Prices swell like tides, recede without warning, and return by routes no forecast could predict. Securities are not just numbers on a screen, but living claims on enterprises moving through shifting economic winds.
Out of this unpredictability, the greatest return so far—aside from the ROI—has been in patience: not the passive kind, but the choice to keep planting and pruning, even when the sky darkens.
A thousand days in the market can seem almost insignificant—they are only the dawn of longer seasons. The next thousand, and the thousand after that, will bring their own storms and blossoms. The plan remains the same: keep tending, rebalancing, avoiding short-term speculation, doing more research, and letting time and discipline do the heavy lifting.
If the first thousand days were about learning to tend, the next will be about letting the roots grow deep—trusting that, even when the garden looks still, growth is quietly underway.