Essays & Analysis

The long-form thinking.

Essays on investing, risk, behavior, and the strange gap between how Wall Street talks to millionaires and how it talks to everyone else.

Draft in progress

The first essay is being written.

This page will host long-form writing on investing psychology, portfolio construction, and the specific traps that catch retail investors most often. Subscribe to the waitlist to get notified when the first post goes live.

Planned topics

PLANNED · Q2 2026

Why "diversification" gets taught wrongDraft

Owning 30 S&P 500 names and calling it diversified is a misunderstanding of what diversification actually does for a portfolio.

PLANNED · Q2 2026

The sequence-of-returns trapDraft

Two investors with the same average return can retire with wildly different outcomes. Why order matters more than magnitude.

PLANNED · Q3 2026

What a 90% return year really tells youDraft

An honest look at what concentrated, high-conviction investing gets right — and what it systematically gets wrong when the cycle turns.

A note on tone

These won't be Twitter-bait "5 stocks to buy now" posts. They'll read more like essays in a financial magazine — slower, more argued, occasionally contrarian. If that's not your speed, that's fine. The performance chart on the home page speaks for itself; the blog is for readers who want to understand the why behind the what.