Too Much Reading, Not Enough Writing

intro

So last week I walked into one of those "what the fuck is going on?" headaches. I felt overwhelmed by information and uncertainty over the true macro/geopolitical driving forces.

issue

I read the FT on the weekend and MoneyWeek / ZeroHedge/ Twitter throughout the week. This may sound like a lot but honestly it's quite manageable. The FTWeekend is consumed on the couch or coffee shop, avec wife.  Money Week is my Monday - Friday 10 minute "commute read" and twitter is light entertainment when I'm taking a dump.

It's not so much the quantity of "news" I'm reading but the "news" itself that is causing the headache.
In the last two weeks I have noticed two things: One, the distinct lack of news and regurgitation of articles. Two, a plethora of opinion pieces. Both of which piss me off because repetition, by definition cannot be "new" and opinion, by definition isn't "fact", so neither are in anyway useful.

However what I believe is the main cause of my befuddlement, is not my reading sub-par articles but the lack of time I've spent writing about what I've been reading over the past few weeks, I haven't been formulating my own ideas. Of course I'm confused.

summary

Like the title says, I'm reading too much and not writing enough. To put it another way I need to make more regular visits to this blog. Admittedly there are less trades to chronicle now that I'm trading off W1 charts but that doesn't mean that there aren't ideas that need to be documented.

(rant and self flagellation over)