If you want to see how a truly hellbent person writes a Week 1 assignment then celebrates their long-term follow-through, do enjoy this deep dive:

When I met Rebecca in 2021, she had exhausted Dave Ramsey’s “Baby Steps” and was looking for guidance on how to upgrade from the checkers of defensive investing to the chess of aggressive investing. To be fair, Ramsey’s protocol had helped her & her husband clear six figures of debt & generate serious momentum. The question was, what to do with this momentum?

“It’s no big deal, just a little event” they said.

The Mayor, The Vice Chancellor, and a man called “Sir” were sitting in the front row.

No matter. They bore witness to The Word of Cod…

What follows is an interview with a kindergarten teacher in her 60s in Australia, who slung her skeptical husband over her shoulder, learned how to pick her own stocks & invest her own money in 8 weeks… and 2 years later has eviscerated her family’s fear that they might never retire.

From here it’s clearly best to let Karen do the talking…

Two of my main mantras as a teacher of investing are "When in doubt, split-test” & “Do not be a hypocrite.”

So in August 2022 I created a “$100k side-bet portfolio" to split-test a concentrated-but-not-ultra-concentrated portfolio against my usual focus investing strategy.

Three years later – of doing almost nothing except holding – this portfolio has…

"I asked my brother, age 65, 'When're you going to retire?' 'Can't afford to.'"

"Shit. What'd you say?"

"Shit! What *can* you say?!"

Here’s a hard-won highlight reel of some of my proudest client transformations in the US, Australia and New Zealand:

Find Fat Fish is currently helping an eclectic squad of power moms learn to make their 9-to-5s unnecessary by investing as a hobby. We wanted to take a couple minutes to celebrate our clients' progress, as many of them elevate from feeling codependent & trampled to independent & triumphant:

He's gone from wondering "Am I going to work at a mine site, one week on & one week off, for the rest of my life?" to estimating "I will pay off my house & retire at 40" because he's learned to Fat Fish.

A doctor who trains doctors, he’s gone from groaning “Why are my returns so shit & my costs so high?!” to laughing “1 position paid for Cole… today” in 18 months.

Dear Finatics, please enjoy my 4th appearance on The NZ Everyday Investor (one of New Zealand’s leading finance podcasts), where I walk Darcy Ungaro through the major investor archetypes that tend to do very well or very badly with Find Fat Fish’s brand of amateur focus investing:

I spent the last six months on a sabbatical — focusing entirely, and gloriously, on me — and exercising “sacred selfishness” for half-a-year felt good (maybe a little too good), until I received this email...

Dear Finatics,

Here are two appearances I recently made on The NZ Everyday Investor (one of New Zealand’s leading finance podcasts):

The first is a “concentration vs. diversification” debate, the second is a deep dive about why concentrating your investments (aka Focus Investing) destroys diversification for at least 7 major reasons if your most desired outcome is “I work because I want to, not because I have to… and there’s no way I will outlive my money.”

Are your investing returns jeopardizing your retirement? If so: I invite you, on this day, to join my humble Kingdom.

Compoundalot is for amateur exploiters of compound interest, by amateur exploiters of compound interest. Our goal is independence of the highest order—the kind most say they have, but know they don’t.

“There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm. Second…

To put yourself in position to invest successfully for life, Clean Up Your Defense + Experiment With Offense.

Picking winners in your kitchen.

When my dad found out I was an English Major, I received a pissed-off prophecy: “Listen to me carefully, you silly writer-artiste…

Here’s how two Finatics—a husband-wife squad in California, who work as a mailman and special education teacher—conquered their fear of investing and now feel confident about retirement.