My inbox is FULL. Always.
GitHub PR approvals.
Google Cloud alerts screaming about latency.
And—wedged right in between—execution reports from a few brokers politely informing me I did something… emotional.

For years I treated these worlds as unrelated.
Coding was the rational, well-lit part of my brain.
Trading was the fun, dopamine-fueled corner where rules were optional.
That worked right up until a few “strong conviction” trades turned into a full-blown kernel panic in my P&L.

That’s when it clicked:

An options portfolio is just a distributed system with terrible documentation and hostile users.

If you wouldn’t run a production service on vibes, why are you running your money that way?