Be brave enough to suck at something new

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This is the first time I’ve ever written a newsletter/blog post, or made an attempt at one. If you’re reading this, you are one of the first few people brave enough to read this, so congratulations and thank you for being part of my first mailing list (I’ve never had one before, feels pretty cool hahaha.) As the saying goes, things get better with time, and I’m hoping the same goes with my writing and this newsletter.

I want to use this blog as a way of covering one of the more interesting topics I’ve come across. Personal Finance. It amazes me how many people have not properly spent time on looking at their personal finances, let alone fully understanding what is going in their retirement funds and personal investments. I don’t declare to be a pro, but I do believe that I’ve done some work on the subject and would like to spread some of the gems I’ve come across over the past few years on this journey. As time goes on and my knowledge base expands even more, I hope that the learnings I come across become as useful to you, as they have been to me.

I also want to use it as a space to discuss philosophy, and other interesting topics I may come across or think about from time to time. The core messages will most likely rotate around finance and investments, but I do believe being able to venture into other schools of thought is important if one wishes to navigate the world of finance and truly understand things for what they are and not what we wish them to be. Sounds messy, but atleast that is step closer to reality.

I decided on calling this blog “Random Walk Theory” because the name suits my ritual of going for walks when I need to think. I tend to get a lot of my good ideas when I am walking around my neighbourhood or anywhere for that matter. To give a more technical description of the idea:

‘A “random walk” is a statistical phenomenon where a variable follows no discernible trend and moves seemingly at random.’

Allowing one’s mind to venture of into different rabbit holes brings many weird and wonderful thoughts. Never formal, always random and unpredictable. I think the phenomenon, as described in Financial literature, fits this tendency quite well.


Of course, comments and suggestions are welcome. Getting feedback from readers is definitely something I want. Any recommendations on how this can be improved are greatly appreciated.


Hope you enjoy 🙂

13 thoughts on “Be brave enough to suck at something new”

  2. This is great 👍🏽 🙂 cause as you said not a lot of people do personal finance. I try and still kinda struggling. So I would always like advice on it.

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  3. Great start!
    Really looking foward to some dope tips served with a sprinkle of humour 🙂
    Excited to explore the finacial rabbit holes.

    Was hoping for a tip to be thrown in the mix but I guess we’ll have to wait for the next post!

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  7. Douglas, this is awesome!
    Starting is always the hardest part – apt title for the first blog 😉
    I look forward to reading more.
    This may just be the inspiration I’ve been looking for to start my next Podcast series… Thank you 🙂

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    Only thing I’d suggest is double checking grammar and spelling – picked up a few minor errors.

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    1. Hahaha Good to hear from you Gus Bus !!! 🙂 For sure, this is still the beginning but I am happy that you enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing you in the comments and also getting your opinions and views

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