#investment | Anand S - Things I Learned

Fri, Aug 15, 2025. ⭐ Assets are any leveragable stored capability. Money is one, but there are several one can "invest" in, be an agent of, or perhaps steal. #investment
1. Wealth (investments, income)
2. Regenerative assets (land, carbon credits, renewables)
3. Contacts (reference customers, hiring pipeline, talent bench, weak-ties)
4. Distribution channels (repeatable routes to users: partnerships, marketplaces, APIs, SEO)
5. Attention (your audience, whom you can reach directly)
6. Trust/reputation in communities (community capital in employers, clients, forums, society, search keywords)
7. Personal brand “edges” (moral authority, values lived aloud, distinctive taste or stance)
8. Data (your clean, labeled, joined data corpus)
9. Code (models, algorithms, components, templates, libraries, tools, evals; versioned)
10. Content (blog posts, video tutorials, case studies, demos, stories, slides, docs)
11. Knowledge (notes, decision logs, knowledge graph, institutional memory)
12. Playbooks & runbooks (process checklists that survived fire, SOPs, scenario plans)
13. Habits & policies (operating cadence, rituals, governance & compliance muscle)
14. Optionality (cash buffer, credit lines, slack time, real options, small bets)
15. Agreements (MSAs/SLAs, pre-negotiated contracts)
16. IP (copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks)
17. Health & energy reserves

Sat, Feb 24, 2024. Managing wealth requires training. #future #investment