[Idea Collector] I dig for strategy ideas even in my sleep.

The truth is, I’m collecting quant strategy ideas every waking moment.

While working my triceps at the gym in the morning,

while scrolling through YouTube Shorts,

while reading a LinkedIn post,

while glancing at the ad that popped up beside my Google search,

…

It’s less like the dashing figure of an “explorer” pictured above,

and more like a “simmani” — a wild-ginseng hunter — combing the whole mountainside, digging up roots and herbs, like the one below.

Honestly, it’s all incredibly vague.

Which is exactly why I’m so careful not to let impatience creep in.

Which is why, all the more, I just try to stay grounded in reality and pour myself into the present work.

Trusting that if I keep at it, the alpha will come.

That’s all.

It’s not that I’ve got some safety net,

some “well, if it doesn’t work out, whatever” kind of attitude.

I just simply believe,

and plant one foot forward each day.