Favorite Investing Mantras

In case you’ve been in some deep dark part of the internet unsure of what’s heads or tails for finance best practices, I present to you a light. Calling you back to shore. People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. Don’t do something. Stand there. In the…

Potential Is There, Let’s Develop It

A friend of mine is job searching. To aid them, I’ve been asking recruiters who have reached out to me if they’d be open to chatting with my friend who has entry level experience for a few roles. Of five recruiters I’ve posed this question to, one replied with an email they could send a…

P/E Ratios For The Layman

How many dollars will you pay for a dollar of earnings from a company? That is what a price/earning (P/E) ratio is. You’ll see ups and downs in this ratio depending as investor confidence waxes and wanes. When greed holds sway, very high P/Es are likely. For reference, as of today, Tesla’s PE Ratio is…

Why Time In The Market Matters More Than Timing The Market

When does the same input result in drastically different outcomes? In the world of finance, this occurs with compound interest. Three people could invest the same amount of money starting at different times, 50, 30, and 10 years and the person that started early could have many multiples more money at the end than the…

Geometries Of Space: Hyperbolic, Spherical, And Euclidean

In this episode of, “skimming the surface on a very complex topic you know little to nothing about” we have the geometries of space. This initially became of interest to me because I was learning about Daina Taimiņa, a Latvian mathematician. She had the incredible insight to visualize hyperbolic space through crocheting. It’s as wild…