Fuck You Money
“What if you woke up tomorrow with nothing? No money. No assets. No portfolio. Just the knowledge you have right now. What would you do?”
I get asked this hypothetical all the time.
It’s because I have “fuck you” money, and they want the formula for it.
They expect me to describe a painful, decade-long climb. A return to the investment banking bullpen. A 100-hour-week grind. Major risks building a business.
They are wrong. I would not do that again. I have a better way now.
Losing my money would not be a tragedy. It would be an inconvenience. It would not be a life sentence. It would be a purge.
Why?
Because the old rules are dead. The model of “get a job, save 10%, buy an index fund, and die at 70” is a trap. It’s a system designed to create compliant workers, not sovereign individuals.
My knowledge isn’t just about P/E ratios or LBO models. My knowledge is about systems. And the tools to build systems have become absurdly powerful.
If I woke up at …