{"id":572,"date":"2020-08-21T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2020-08-22T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T05:28:24","slug":"using-binoculars-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/using-binoculars-backwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Using binoculars backwards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day my 2-year-old was using binoculars backwards and so I corrected her but she doesn\u2019t 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 <em>wrong<\/em> way to use binoculars, it was merely the <em>other<\/em> way to use binoculars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Binoculars can make faraway things appear nearer and nearby things appear farther away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s price of Tesla\u2019s stock closely, it looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/COKL-RupxRCT-JIdX9eY-Iq_xndhBr5FkhqDe8THNJidTIVubEJYqNfas9i-75dh5t4jtJggOyrV8Uk1jgSerO0wGBsxgYfdxToc7fyvRfF3_DGcrw2hAqG19mKAFuU5ozpVWsiu\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look at it from farther away, it looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/tF2krya1cjEg925QTM_m04O1ocwY2ESCSLQZ8kqBG1yeRQc8hnE0oTjna25SK6UI7jaZ7bg2ELtkbnchhqy6EFyl0odPriuUGTaS4GIxd5WLSse55-sQPJh676ppFvYupfygpxQW\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stock prices are the types of things that I\u2019d rather look at from faraway. I\u2019d rather see one data point for a day than 390 minutes of frenzy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What else should I make look farther away?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/T0Rp4xgOdZ2w3n0kVflPphW3Q9ytwsX9d5SH7FiK-Fd7e7GsR-L8tWP6ZKip55D_INmtAPMOucNaG43dhhkhR4p1Ush26dDUioOZRRheR_Ik-gkAWGOYtUkOJNcbMQgyqvhnFGOg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day my 2-year-old was using binoculars backwards and so I corrected her but she doesn\u2019t 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/21\/using-binoculars-backwards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using binoculars backwards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}