Since making my first ever self-conducted investment a few weeks ago, it has become a bit of an addiction to check up my investment accounts compulsively throughout the day during market hours to see how the value of my portfolio fluctuates. Didn’t make a lot of buying or selling, but I’m quite fascinated to see the numbers going up and down and couldn’t stop wondering about how they reflect the inner workings of businesses and the economy in general.

Slowly I’m trying to wean off the addiction so that I can shift the focus to my more important goal of setting up a sustainable design studio here in TO. Reached a big milestone this past week. I had finally made recycled paper for the first time using the many coffee cup sleeves I had saved up since moving back to Canada. This was something that had been sitting on the back of my head for a long time but I just never got around to actually doing it. My thought is that if I can prove that I can make a profit in recycling paper, albeit very tiny profit, I can make it a proof-of-concept business case for scaling up a sustainable business by recycling other materials and with higher volumes.

I can be a bit of an idealist sometimes. I still think it’s possible to set up a profiting business without harming the environment, or better yet, a business that can make a profit by healing the environment from all the damages we collectively as humans have inflicted on earth. Making recycled paper this past week was a tiny step in the right direction for this grandiose dream of mine. May God continue to bless my endeavors ahead. 🙏🏻