Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly. - Michael Lewis

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from one market to another.