Become financially independent
Like everyone, I sometimes struggle with waiting for the perfect time.
You wait for the perfect time to have kids, learn a new skill, quit a bad habit. And then after you just do the thing, you always wonder why you waited so long. Life is better now.
It’s no different with investing. If you’ve never invested before it’s hard getting started. It’s even harder if the market’s been steadily rising. Almost impossible...
A small part of my investment portfolio is an index fund tracking “the market”, and apparently I’m not alone.
Over the past few years trillions of dollars have flowed into index funds as people realize highly paid professional money managers seldom beat the market.
Bill Mann, after spending eight years running active funds, explained why that’s a difficult task:
“Fund managers are under pressure to be predictable by showing low tracking...
A friend called me up scared. They’ve spent the past 20 years working to pay off student loans, buy a house, raise a family, and so saving for retirement wasn’t a priority. “Where do I start?”
It was a good reminder: it’s easy to forget how confusing and daunting investing is when you’re getting started. Which reminds me of a story about a guy who had $100,000 to invest.
The first thing he did was...
As a kid in the ’80s and ’90s I remember begging my parents to buy VHS copies of Terminator and Predator. Who didn’t love Arnold Schwarzenegger?
It’s easy to forget he got his start bodybuilding. That it was only after winning seven Mr. Olympia titles he wanted to be an actor, and it was only after becoming a bonafide action-film superstar he wanted to be governor.
I’m thinking nobody has three huge careers because...
In 2007 I bought shares of Berkshire Hathaway, and so I’ve read every shareholder letter from Warren Buffett, watched the documentary, read the biography. Even made it a point to vacuum up every little scrap of wisdom from sidekick Charlie Munger.
It makes sense then, that you’d attend the annual Berkshire shareholder meeting. Every May thousands of people flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for this...
