I view investing as getting my money a job. When things are complicated, we simplify them into stories (based on what we already understand) to make sense of it all. To provide a way to make decisions. I started by investing in the funds that I was studying. Which, unsurprisingly, were the funds of the companies I worked at. Which, unsurprisingly, were companies that recognised the qualifications and studies I had done. Then I got an Interactive Brokers account, and started by getting my money four jobs. Gradually over a couple of years, I got my money more jobs until I had a portfolio of 20. Unlike my current personal job hunt, my money did not get interviewed. It did not have to find vacancies in roles that fit my profile. Money does not specialise. Money does not make decisions that limit its world view. Money does not have confirmation bias that looks to explain away its inadequacies in comfortable, but false, fairy tales. Money does not define itself by the work it does. It works, and either it grows or shrinks. The secret of nature, David Attenborough says, is that “a species can only thrive when everything around it thrives too”. Making money is not a win-lose ego competition. It is win-win capital allocation.
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