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About This Notebook
What it is, why I keep it, and how to read it.
I keep this notebook to think in public, slowly, and to leave something useful behind.
I started keeping it because I noticed I would relearn the same lesson every few years, at a cost, and I got tired of paying full price twice. Writing it down was cheaper. That is still the whole reason this exists.
Field Notes is not a firm, not a fund, not a pitch. It is a running record of how one investor thinks about markets, temperament, and time. If it is useful to you, use it. If it saves you from one bad decision, it has done its job.
How to Read It
Four rooms. Enter through any of them, in any order. Nothing here is gated, and none of the four is a prerequisite for another.
Standing Principles
A few ideas hold up everything else written here. I do not repeat myself across pages, so this is just where each one actually lives.
How It’s Made
Built with Next.js. Set in Fraunces for display, Instrument Sans for reading, and Spline Sans Mono for the small mechanical details: folios, kickers, dates, ordinals. The look borrows from a ruled ledger, because that is what this is, a working document rather than a brochure.
No tracking beyond what a static site needs, no newsletter pop-up, no clever tricks. Just pages. I am not identifying myself here, and that is on purpose. The ideas should stand or fall on their own, not on who is saying them.
Field Notes is a personal notebook kept for its own sake. Nothing here is investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation of any kind.