Hello and welcome to my blog! I know you have many choices for where you use your eyeballs, and I’m glad you’ve decided to use some of your eyeball time for reading my content.

I’m Nyles, and I’m not a finance professional. I’ve never worked in any finance-related field, and my day job is in operations consulting. So you may be wondering what qualifies me to write all of these different posts.

Well, the reality is I’ve been borderline obsessed with investing, personal finance, and reading wealth-building books for a while now. I’m 26, and I’d estimate I’ve spent around 5,000 hours deep diving in these subjects.

This all means that even though I’ve spent lots of time reading and thinking about this field, I am an outsider – I don’t run an investment fund, I don’t have a job related to the topics I write about, and I am not selling my services to you. Therefore, my writings may not match the opinions of the broader finance industry (in fact, I’d be really disappointed if they did).

So why am I doing this? Is it out of an obsession over eyeballs? The biggest reason I wanted to write a blog was to help me synthesize everything I’ve been learning.

Before the blog, the time I’ve spent exploring these subjects has been mainly me reading and thinking independently, with me occasionally bouncing ideas off of my friends. It’s time for me now to level up to the big leagues.

Another reason I’m blogging is to have an outlet for creative expression, even if it’s in something as nerdy as investing/personal finance. I’ve often heard that writing is a great way to learn – my plan is to see how true that is.

I want to cover a wide range of topics in my blog, and really I’ll be writing on the areas that interest me. I plan to use the Socratic method often in my posts, preferring to ask the right questions, share my thoughts, and seek your feedback. After all, “a problem well stated is half solved.”

Now that you’ve heard a bit about the blog – I invite you to continue to click around the website and read my musings. Here is my first post to get you started!