I’ve been delaying this because of the simple belief that I figured I could finish a single chapter from the Accounting All-In-One For Dummies without getting completely lost in the simple question of “what kind of account is this?”.

That and because Jekyll on Windows’s Subsystem Linux installation is being a total pain in the ass after figuring that RubyGems for Windows isn’t working as it should anymore (clean reinstall of Windows 10 and hours of updating? Probably at this point).

But then again this isn’t really as much of a big deal as much as the task of organizing the data for what I could figure is vital, useful, and is going to be, more importantly, going to be actually used but the particular audience in question.

Invest In Yourself™

Let me just say that in my years in compulsory schooling I heard mostly platitudes that didn’t really apply to the real world because the only way that they applied is if you were middle class in San Francisco. And being middle class in San Francisco means making roughly $192,000 gross.

In the last 12+ years working on and off, full or part time combined, is an average of 18 to 22 thousand gross that I’ve made. If there was any year were I would beat that range at any time, it’d be because of inflation or being buoyed by the rise in the minimum wage - barely anything involving promotion.

So to translate the platitudinal “Invest In Yourself” to English: you have to make time to self-educate.

Self-educating is not something you do because you want to necessarily, you do it because you have to. You do it because you know you don’t know shit about something and its either wait to pay for the mere privilege to have someone who’s job is to give some care about making sure that you learn and perform demonstrable, working knowledge because it is their job - or, because you know you don’t have the latter as a viable option, you get to it as soon as possible, however possible.

Just ask 19th century Russian peasants and sharecroppers.

And when it comes to investment education, you’re going to get ripped off by someone like, oh I don’t know, Robert Kiyosaki? Toni Robbins?

Anyway, investment education is a solitary affair usually which best pays back and typically it also means having to network with people that know people that know someone that actually did a good job making their wealth through investment alone - working smart? working hard? why work?

Topics of the Blog and Brass Tacks.

The blog will mostly center on mainly posting some basics of what I reading or learning - effectively journaling my progress so you can follow along with me. Of course I don’t plan to write every little thing because then the whole blog will be just nothing more than a personal reading journal.

Occasionally I’ll write some opinion piece (it’s my blog after all) about a certain topic. I don’t consider myself at all an expert on any particular subject but frankly it’s stupid to merely wait for some measure or credential to give oneself the impression “ah yes, now I can express” when you have already a large queue of ideas that simply need refinement and preparation for articulation.

Investing is a bit a mix of intuitive thinking and science. Unfortunately leaning on intuition so this calls for a host of expanding your understanding of the world versus how you understood it comfortably before.

Resources To Start.

Let’s begin with a list of resources by Class Asset. As you know I’m not too fond of real estate considering that the most lucrative market is only accessible to someone as financially weak as myself in the form of an in-law, studio apartment, one bedroom apartment, or a section 8 subsidized apartment. As an investor it’s no better as REITs are the only course of action to buy into something early on to sit and collect dividends in a lucrative market like San Francisco.

So! Two class assets: stocks and crypto currencies.

General Investment Resources1

  1. Awesome-Investing Github Repo2

  2. ckz8780’s The Ultimate Stock Market Toolkit

  3. Martin Shkreli’s “Introduction to Investing and Finance” Youtube Playlist - Learn the basics from a WallStreetBets legend

  4. Martin Skhreli’s “This Week in Investing” playlist

  5. Martin Shkreli’s Introduction to Chemistry3

  6. Micheal Burry Twitter Archive

Stock Resources

General Info

Screeners

Any of these will work, you don’t need all of them. For my money? Trading View.

Crypto Resources

News4

So with that, I’m closing my eyes and going back to some daydreams

Footnotes:

  1. 👆These first two are a pre-curated list that I would highly recommend starting out with to merely check out. The books are overlapping and honestly ckz8780’s list ↩

  2. this is more for international audiences while Awesome-Investing contains Indian-centric links and websites but all the same the fundamental basics are transferable from country to country. ↩

  3. This playlist may seem out of place but it’s to be a demonstrable reminder of how important it is to know what you’re investing in. In Shkreli’s case, he dealt with the pharmaceutical industry and so he had to know his stuff for investing in an industry that has a high company turnover rate but also has high potential for very high returns and profits. ↩

  4. Some of this list is from this Medium post ↩