Saturday · August 22 2026

The whole day is yours, James — a clean run before Wednesday's flight.

Nothing on the calendar today.

Needs attention

Nothing needs you this morning.

Resolved
1

St George's Square sale is back on

Your dad emailed yesterday that contracts exchanged on 111 St George's Square after a bumpy few days on and off — completion is due by 30 November.

2

Klosters passport packet is in

Earlier this week you sent your passport scan for the Klosters gift-deed paperwork; KPMG says the next step is Karen and the kids signing a power of attorney.

Looking ahead
1

Vegas flight departs Wednesday evening

WN 4949 leaves Phoenix at 5:45pm Wednesday — worth sorting a ride to the airport and packing before then rather than the morning of.

Robinhood

Your Agentic account is worth about $225.56 total — $133.40 sitting in cash and roughly $92 spread across four small positions: Archer Aviation (ACHR), Joby Aviation (JOBY), Lucid (LCID), and SoFi (SOFI), each currently worth $22–24.

Trade ideas for today

Working from $133.40 in available cash, 40% ($53.36) split evenly into two ideas: $26.68 (high risk/reward) into ACHR — already your most volatile holding, roughly 4.2 more shares at today's close near $6.29 — and $26.68 (moderate risk/reward) into SOFI — your most liquid position, roughly 1.4 more shares at today's close near $18.91.

Not financial advice — for informational purposes only.

Off the Clock

Words of wisdom

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

Something new to learn today

Idempotency is the property of an operation that produces the same result no matter how many times it's applied — a PUT request or a payment charge should be safe to retry without side effects piling up. It's the backbone of reliable APIs and distributed systems. More here.

On this day

In 1911, the Mona Lisa was discovered missing from the Louvre — stolen the day before by Vincenzo Peruggia, in what became one of history's most audacious art heists. More here.

TIL

The liquid ban on planes wasn't caused by 9/11 — it followed a 2006 plot in which UK security services foiled a plan to smuggle liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks onto transatlantic flights. More here.