Net worth, the options wheel, budgeting, and the real numbers behind your money.
How the options wheel works, from cash-secured puts to assignment to covered calls, and why a brokerage statement can't tell you what it's really earning.
The part of me that wants to VTI and chill, the part that wants to do something, and how the options wheel satisfied both, right up until tracking it by hand fell apart.
How my idea of wealth grew up, from a kid picturing a pool of gold coins, to assets minus debt, to just wanting one honest number I could watch climb over time.
How my budgeting grew up with me, from projecting whether I could cover the car payment, to saving for a ring, to a granular category-and-goal system that got too heavy to manage by hand.
I was tired of piecing my family's whole financial picture together by hand across spreadsheets, brokerage statements, and a dozen browser tabs. So I built one tool to hold all of it.
Occasional writing on net worth, the options wheel, and budgeting. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
