Colin Chartier | Startups, software

Many people treat "investing" as a synonym for "stock investing", but that's an overly simple way to think about things. The most common version of non-stock investing is the adage: "invest in an education" - this is obviously simplistic, but starts getting to the real point of investing: Doing actions now that yield large long-term returns in happiness and fulfillment for your life. This is targeted to a younger (18-25) crowd, but the broader points are applicable at any age. These thoughts are from the perspective of someone working in tech. As mentioned above, the first derivative of investing is to improve your own skills, brand, or network - going to university and finding mentors are good examples of this. There's lots of clever ideas you can find here - I built a 10' x 6' loft bed with four 4k monitors under it while I was building LayerCI initially. In total the monetary investment was $2000 for the lumber and the monitors, but in return I had an extra 60 sq. ft of living space

Many people treat "investing" as a synonym for "stock investing", but that's an overly simple way to think about things. The most common version of non-stock investing is the adage: "invest in an education" - this is obviously simplistic, but starts getting to the real point of investing: Doing actions now that yield large long-term returns in happiness and fulfillment for your life. This is targeted to a younger (18-25) crowd, but the broader points are applicable at any age. These thoughts are from the perspective of someone working in tech. As mentioned above, the first derivative of invest