u/AlphaLemur47

Acknowledging upfront I work in tech. What i found interesting happened to pay well, i was in the right part of the world and had favorable market conditions during my entire adult career and it feels like a whole lotta luck to get here.

Regardless i’d say the two things that helped the most was:

1. financial order of operations, a clear checklist and its easy to optimize and automate. I found it about 1yr into my career, quickly resonated with it and worked to start implementing it.

2. table of power of dollars saved by age. Of course compounding interest was nothing new to me but even so it’s hard to develop an intuitive understanding. More so than the math the table helped me mentally value purchases and see where i could apply delayed gratification for a few years and greatly reduce the opportunity cost.