Education & network
Mentors, partners, lenders and your first team. The people-compounding that precedes the money-compounding.
This section is on the writing roadmap — the map exists before the territory is filled in. The library has everything filed so far.
More in Mindset
Long-game thinkingWhy twenty years is the only edge nobody is competing for, and how to hold a position that long in a this-quarter world.First principlesThe five ways a property pays you — cashflow, appreciation, amortization, tax, leverage — and how every strategy is a different mix of them.Investor psychologyFear at the closing table, greed at the top of the cycle, boredom in the middle years. The behavioral failure modes and their defenses.Goals & your thesisWriting the one-page twenty-year thesis, setting stage gates, and knowing which game you are playing at any moment.Market cycles & riskRates, cycles, leverage discipline and reserves — surviving the three crashes you will invest through.