Why I'm Doing This
I’ve been interested in markets for a while. Not obsessively, more like the way you keep meaning to look into something and then don’t. Interest without action.
I’m a software engineer. My relationship with money was simple: salary in, expenses out.
So I’m making the time now. One year, and hopefully enough to form a habit.
I’ve set aside a specific amount: money I can research with, invest with, and learn from without it breaking anything if I get it wrong. I’m calling it play money because that’s what it is. The goal isn’t to retire early or beat the market. The goal is to actually build a habit: give investing the same structured attention I’d give to learning a new skill at work.
Writing this publicly is how I make myself do it properly. When you have to explain something to someone else, you actually have to understand it. When it’s out there, you can’t fake it. The accountability is the point.
Markets are volatile right now. That’s probably the worst time to start and also probably the best time to learn.
Here’s what this is:
- A year-long experiment, not a career change
- Research I’ve done, written out so I have to do it properly
- Sectors and stocks I’m learning about, with my actual thinking
- Honest about what I don’t know
The longer-term ambition is modest: understand this well enough that at some point, a meaningful percentage of my income can come from it. But that’s later. Right now I’m just trying to show up consistently.
If you’re curious but haven’t started, not sure where to begin, this might be the right place to follow along.
None of this is advice. This is the learning log.
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