Tag: personal finance
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As a recent graduate with nearly zero savings, where should I start investing?
I hope you will soon have more savings! But as you start to save, invest in this order – All told, you should target saving at least 25% or more of your income. This is on the higher side, but the assumption is – you don’t have high expenses and EMIs… yet. They will be…
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How do I save money smartly as a teenager or college student?
As a student, I’ll assume you have no or minimal money. But what you do have is time, brains, and a learning mindset. These are your strengths. Your saving and investing strategy has to align to this. This means – developing skills and making plans. Read. Do courses. Learn. Take a small amount of money…
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What are the key mistakes people make when planning for long-term financial goals?
In order of how much they can hurt you, these are the biggest financial mistakes you can make in long-term planning (biggest onwards) – 1. You forgot to start early.Compounding your gains and savings is most effective when given time, and once you lose time you never get it back. Starting small early has a…
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The book is out!
Well, it’s finally happened – the book is out! It’s been a minute. Honestly – at one point, somewhere between edit #3 and edit#5, which is where I started questioning the whole point of what I was doing, while also hitting the research / validation phase and realizing this was actually nothing as special or…
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Life Advice from RA2
I’m a fan of the whole Command & Conquer RTS games from the 90s, and the cream of the crop was RA2 – and it had actually taught me some very relevant lessons about life and money.
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Your Money And Your Life!
I’ve made a bunch of money mistakes, and I’ve looked at them and said, “I wish I knew that before.” Well, here are all the things I wish I had known. It’s taken me a while to collect this, from books, blogs, podcasts, but mostly from bitter experience – but all of it, it’s what…
Bad With Money 