What the bush taught me about investing
A couple of weekends ago, I spent two days in the bush with my boys: learning how to properly use a bushcraft knife, make fire without matches, and treat water so it wouldn’t make me crook. We learned to navigate by the sun… and the stars. And we slept under tarps in sleeping bags.
We had a ball, and it was one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things I’ve done in yonks.
And it won’t surprise you that somewhere between carving tent pegs from tree branches and lighting fires from sparks, it struck me: this is what investing should feel like.
Simple. Practical. Grounded.
That might sound strange to some, given the buzzwords and palaver flying around the investing world: trading ‘systems’, AI, biotech, rotation, positioning, ETF, ESG,…
