Reminiscences of a Shrub Operator

Reminiscences of a Shrub Operator

Memory vs Tungsten

Plus: "The Corner of the FT" returns!

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Le Shrub
May 12, 2026
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We have previously identified two types of trader personalities prevalent in the Market right now:

  • The “Doomer Boomers”, who focus on “mundane” assets likes Crude

  • The “Token Maxis”, who are spending tokens in order “to escape the permanent underclass” (which is basically the new way of telling the boomers “have fun staying poor”)…

…and both have lost their minds, in different ways!

Being a parody publication allows us to explore completely random topics (it also allows us to get away with memes such as the one below) …

… which led to today’s Shrubstack, where we compare MEMORY with TUNGSTEN!

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