{"id":2098,"date":"2018-10-17T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T21:53:20","slug":"that-kleenex-in-the-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"That Kleenex in the Wash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big advocate of keeping your portfolio simple and easy to manage. As I was doing laundry and found, yet again, that I&#8217;d left a Kleenex in the pocket of a pair of pants and had to pick out little bits of fluff, it got me thinking of this. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so easy to over-estimate our ability to handle a little more complexity, to think that even when you&#8217;re busy it&#8217;s not big deal. Then you find that Kleenex in the wash. Again. This isn&#8217;t even an unforseeable or unavoidable error. It&#8217;s happened before, and yet it&#8217;ll probably happen again. Probably before the year is out, even. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another reminder to me that we have to arrange things in a way that accounts for the fact that we all have periods of inattention or sleep deprivation, and even at the best of times human error happens. If <em>the plan<\/em> is to ignore things for a year or to at a time, there&#8217;s less room for execution risk. <\/p>\n<p>A simple portfolio is more robust to negligence and human error. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big advocate of keeping your portfolio simple and easy to manage. As I was doing laundry and found, yet again, that I&#8217;d left a Kleenex in the pocket of a pair of pants and had to pick out little bits of fluff, it got me thinking of this. It&#8217;s so easy to over-estimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}