The other day my 2-year-old was using binoculars backwards and so I corrected her but she doesn’t always like being corrected and she insisted that she was using them the way that she wanted to. So, as I try to do, I imagined that she was right and I was wrong. It was not the wrong way to use binoculars, it was merely the other way to use binoculars.
Binoculars can make faraway things appear nearer and nearby things appear farther away.
Seeing a faraway bird up close is nice, and I have to admit, backwards binoculars could be very useful too. If you look at today’s price of Tesla’s stock closely, it looks like this:
If you look at it from farther away, it looks like this:
Stock prices are the types of things that I’d rather look at from faraway. I’d rather see one data point for a day than 390 minutes of frenzy.
What else should I make look farther away?
