Course
Financial Basics
Fourteen short lessons covering the ideas that decide most financial outcomes. No prior knowledge assumed.
14 lessons · 1 modules · about 1 hour total
Module 1
The Essentials
The whole short course, in order.
What this short course coversFourteen short lessons, about an hour, covering the core ideas that decide most financial outcomes.3 minThe Real Cost of Ignoring Your MoneyFinancial illiteracy has a price. It is just never invoiced.4 minFinance is simpler than it looksFinance runs on a handful of core ideas, dressed in language that is not an accident.4 minWhat retirement actually meansA financial state, not an age. The date moves when you move it.4 minEvery purchase is traded timeThe honest price of anything is the hours you had to trade for it.4 minLifestyle inflation, and the always-saving defaultWhy every pay rise vanishes, and the single moment you can stop it.5 minThe emergency fundThe boring account that makes every other decision possible.4 minCompounding: why your brain cannot feel itThe one idea that makes everything else worth doing, and the one your intuition refuses.4 minETFs and why boring beats cleverOne purchase, hundreds of companies, almost no fee. The evidence here is not close.5 minDiversification without gamblingThe one free lunch in investing, and the way people talk themselves out of it.6 minTime in the market, not timing itFalls are normal, the reasons are always convincing, and selling is how the loss becomes real.5 minSavings rate vs return rateTwo people, the same salary, opposite approaches. The result is not the one you expect.6 minYour FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) numberThe actual target, where it comes from, and how many years it takes.5 minRecap, and what to do nextThe thirteen ideas in one page, five actions for this week, and where to go deeper.5 min