Money is just discipline. You already have that.
I left the Navy with a payout but no roadmap — no inheritance, no mentor, no one to copy. The civilian world doesn't hand you a financial plan when you hand back your uniform. So I learned — painfully. Lost money chasing tips. Now I invest with a framework, not a feeling. And I share everything so my son never starts from zero.
◆ Brutal Truth
No money to save and invest? Then plan to work till you die.
Define your own abundance — you need far less than you think. The fastest road to ruin is borrowing to impress people while your cash flow bleeds.
Spend less than you earn
The whole game. Everything else is noise without it.
Define your enough
Your number, not Instagram's. It's smaller than you think.
Never borrow for status
Loans to impress + bleeding cash flow = guaranteed ruin.
Then, your path
Spend Less Than You Earn
The foundation. Everything else is noise without this.
Invest Early, Stay Patient
Compounding rewards the boring. The best returns take decades.
Understand Risk
Risk is not the stock going down. Risk is not knowing what you own.
Build Systems, Not Luck
SIPs, asset allocation, rebalancing. Systems beat predictions.
The Patience
Wealth built slowly, compounded relentlessly
FD vs Equity in India: Why Your Father Was Right Then — and Copying Him Today Will Cost You
Bank FDs paid up to 13% and the PPF a flat 12% tax-free in the 1990s — which made fixed deposits the genuinely intelligent choice for our parents. Today the same instruments barely beat inflation. The instrument follows the era. Here is the math.
Read essay →The Money That Lets You Sleep
My grandfather gave me two lines about money: tainted money poisons the honest money beside it, and a man who earns by fair means sleeps at night. A letter to my son about shrapit money, a man I watched destroy himself in Barigora, and the only test that never lies.
Read essay →The Fifty-Rupee Inheritance
My grandfather hawked clothes from a bicycle and rolled beedis on weekends. My father left home at seventeen with fifty rupees he had arranged. I play the equity game. A letter to my son on where our money came from — and what he actually inherits.
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Baby Steps For Building Wealth
The no-jargon, no-products-to-sell guide to starting your investment journey — five small steps that set the foundation for everything that follows.
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Why Mutual Funds Might Not Be The Right Instrument For Building Wealth
Mutual funds are not designed to make you rich. They are designed to make the fund house rich. Here is the structural truth — and what I did about it after six years of disciplined SIPs.
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Avyaansh, Here Is Everything I Wish Someone Told Me About Money at 22.
A father writes to his young son about money — the mistakes, the lessons, why compound interest rewards the early, why patience beats intelligence, and why the goal of money is freedom.
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Letters to Avyaansh
Tuesday, 16 June 2026
प्रिय अव्यांश, Dear Avyaansh,
The Money That Lets You Sleep
“My grandfather gave me two lines about money: tainted money poisons the honest money beside it, and a man who earns by fair means sleeps at night. A letter to my son about shrapit money, a man I watched destroy himself in Barigora, and the only test that never lies.”
Friday, 5 June 2026
प्रिय अव्यांश, Dear Avyaansh,
The Fifty-Rupee Inheritance
“My grandfather hawked clothes from a bicycle and rolled beedis on weekends. My father left home at seventeen with fifty rupees he had arranged. I play the equity game. A letter to my son on where our money came from — and what he actually inherits.”
Sunday, 15 March 2026
प्रिय अव्यांश, Dear Avyaansh,
Avyaansh, Here Is Everything I Wish Someone Told Me About Money at 22.
“A father writes to his young son about money — the mistakes, the lessons, why compound interest rewards the early, why patience beats intelligence, and why the goal of money is freedom.”