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Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby, three-time TED speaker
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David Heinemeier Hansson
Founder at Basecamp & author of REWORK, REMOTE & It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
You should read the book Money For Something. Fantastic book on investing!
Nathan Barry
Founder & CEO at ConvertKit
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Ian Wooten
Software Engineer, United Kingdom
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Who is this book for?
- What is financial freedom?
- Compounding returns
- Asset classes
- Risk & return
- Investment period
- Diversification
- Asset allocation
- Rebalancing
- Passive investments
- The tyranny of costs
- Exchange traded funds
- Implementing the plan
- Stay the course
- What we’ve learned
- Blockchain & crypto
- Teach a man to fish
- References from the book
- Acknowledgements