FADE IN.
Act 1
INT. BEDROOM - 08:00
PETER wakes up.
PETER (V.O.): It's Saturday morning - no stock trading today. I plan to entertain answer requests in Quora.
Peter taps the Quora icon and reads.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): "How do I affirm that I'll be successful a day not too far from today?" I'll use my Investment List as an example.
Peter types his answer, inserts a screenshot and reads on.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): "What 's your net worth?" That's a blunt question.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Apart from my financials, how to measure the wealth of my health, status, and autonomy?
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Do numbers speak for everything?
Act 2
INT. SITTING ROOM - 10:00
Smartphone in hand, Peter reads the small prints of an infograhic, featuring a smartphone.
PETER (V.O.): The science and technology history from ancient times to the smartphone era is interesting.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The article covers the timelines of electricity, battery, telephone, camera, radio, video, LCD display, internet, touchscreen and computing.
Reading.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Wow, the first description of the binary number system was around 300BCE.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): How fortunate are people these days! I've bought my stock shares with a smartphone.
Peter checks the Yahoo!Finance icon.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The App does all the calculations for me near-instantaneously.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Numbers rule the financial world.
EXT. CLUB SWIMMING POOL - 14:30
Quiet. Wearing a wet suit, Peter is the lone swimmer.
PETER (V.O.): As a Google Local Guide, the number of views, particularly in terms of millions, delights me. The same for Quora.
Swimming.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I take them as third-party endorsement of my original photos, reviews and thoughts - my artistic and literary expressions.
Swimming.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Since I've began investing in stocks, I reckon the significance of the numbers, not just in terms of dollars but also cents.
Swimming.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I find the engagement exciting as I can feel of pulses and the direction of the stock market.
INT. STUDY - 16:30
Peter checks his Quora notifications.
PETER (V.O.): "How large of a group can effectively keep a secret?" It's obvious the more people are in on a conspiracy, the less likely the secret wouldn't leak.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Let me see if there's any thought experiment done in the field.
Peter surfs with web.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): An Oxford physicist has calculated that if one wants to keep a secret for 5 years, the number of conspirators should be less than 2,531, for 25 years, 1,257, and for 100 years, 125.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I'd add that if one wants to keep a secret forever, s/he had better not to tell anyone.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Everyone has her/his secrets, especially on the financials.
Act 3
INT. BEDROOM - 23:30
Peter is dictating with his smartphone.
PETER (V.O.): I've made use of the numbers of my Investment List to demonstrate how to measure quantitatively when a goal will be achieved.
Dictating.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I'm dictating my diary to appraise qualitatively if my daily objectives have been accomplished.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): While I don't share my diaries, I'd disclose a little for the purpose of knowledge transfer.
Thinking.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Whatever that's measured improves exponentially.
Pausing.
PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): But the odd and lonely number 1 is probably the greatest number of all.
Peter sleeps.
FADE OUT
THE END
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