What you’re looking at
This site is a course disguised as a checklist. It takes you from “I have some money and a vague sense I should do something with it” to owning a simple, boring, resilient portfolio — and, eventually, to writing your own one-page investment policy that tells future-you what to do when markets get loud.
The English edition is deliberately small right now, and it reads in order. Foundations comes first: four short reads on why investing beats idle cash, what to sort out before your first purchase, what an index fund actually is, and how to make a first buy you won’t panic-sell. Then Investing 101: five reads that turn the first buy into a durable system — what risk really is, dollar-cost averaging, fees, rebalancing, and the one-page policy that ties it all together. Then Building a Portfolio: stocks versus bonds, diversification, and choosing an allocation you can keep. After the course, two electives: Your Brain on Markets, a field guide to the mistakes your own mind will try to make, and Avoiding Traps, one read that installs a scam detector. Field Notes adds a short monthly recap of what the dashboard’s rules actually signaled.
How to read it
In order, one article at a time. Each piece ends with a single checklist line — a thing you either have done or haven’t. Collect the lines and you have your checklist; that’s the whole conceit of the site.
An article takes five to ten minutes. The doing takes longer, and the doing is the point. Reading about emergency funds while not having one is a well-documented way to feel prepared without being prepared.
Three tricks for finishing
- Do the checklist line before starting the next article. Reading ahead feels like progress. It isn’t. One completed action beats five understood concepts.
- Put a date on it. “I’ll open a brokerage account soon” has a half-life of forever. “Saturday morning, with coffee” tends to actually happen.
- Expect the boring middle. Around the third article, the novelty wears off and the material gets quieter. That’s not a sign you picked the wrong site. Boring is what good personal finance feels like from the inside.
What this site will never do
No stock picks, no market forecasts, no paid tiers, no affiliate links to brokers. Nothing here is investment advice; it is education, written so you can make your own decisions and know why you made them. The About page covers who writes this, and How this site works covers where the claims come from.