We Moved!

Wealthfoundme is now on Substack!

If you received this email, that means you previously subscribed to my blog Wealthfoundme.

First and foremost, I want to thank new and long-time subscribers for reading my work over the years and sending me a note if one of my articles resonated with you. That has meant the world to me. It’s given me the push I needed to keep writing, especially when I felt like no one was listening.

I decided to move to Substack for a few reasons:

For one, we’re all busy people. As a content creator (if you want to call me that), I know that attention is a fleeting commodity. And as AI becomes a more dominant force in content creation, for better or worse, capturing and holding your attention will become exponentially harder. Therefore, friction will be the enemy of discovery.

So the first difference you’ll see is that my articles can be read right in your inbox without navigating to another site. If you’re new here, it will be easier to subscribe and share if you find it insightful and potentially helpful to someone you know.

This also allows me to interact with my subscribers in many more ways.

I want your feedback. Leave a comment below and/or reply to these emails if you vehemently disagree with what’s been said. That only makes me a better writer. And please, please, please keep sending me emails with personal stories if you can relate to one of mine.

Lastly, as I said goodbye to my previous site, which was built on WordPress, I skimmed through many of my earliest posts, deciding which ones I would keep or toss. My stomach turned as I forced myself through to the end of some of these naively written, long, drawn-out essays. I couldn’t believe they let me hit publish. It’s too bad ChatGPT didn’t exist then. Right after confirming that I want to schedule the post to go out on a Wednesday morning, AI would have stopped me and asked one time:

But I suppose everyone feels that way. The internet has a way of putting a timestamp next to what felt like a good idea at the time and cementing it, so you can embellish that glory (or disappointment) over and over again.

The first feeling of reprieve arrived when I found this:

This was the first logo I created in 2019 when I first started writing in college. Boy, did this thing take me back. In fact, while I’ve grown to love it and wouldn’t change a thing, the name Wealth Found Me wasn’t an original idea. As I was building my webpage and ready to hit publish, I needed a custom URL. Apparently, The Wealth Foundation was both taken and not very creative, so SquareSpace, who I was using at the time, came up with a few suggestions—I can’t recall any of the others, but I suppose that’s both the point and trivial now—one of which, www wealthfoundme .com, it had a certain ring to it. The rest, as they say, is history.

The move to Substack is merely another evolution in my writing journey.

While I would love to, I still can’t commit to a new post hitting your inbox the same time every week. I’m still trying to figure out this work/life/writing/boxing balance thing (lol, I know). Despite the new medium, this will still be a collection of my experiences, childhood stories, and money/investing/estate planning topics that I come across in my day job as a financial planner. I write about topics as they present themselves to me and what I find interesting.

Thank you for joining me on this ride.

See you next time.