About The Buddh-ish Investor
This newsletter explores the intersection between investing and Buddhism—
and how each can inform the other in practice.
Buddhist ideas can shape how we think about risk, uncertainty, and market ups and downs.
At the same time, investing serves as a real-world testing ground. It reveals our habits of mind: grasping when things rise, aversion when they fall, and the pull to compare or chase.
What you’ll find here
Short essays on:
investor psychology — fear, FOMO, and behaviour under uncertainty
simple, long-term investing — indexing, asset allocation, and staying the course
Buddhist ideas — impermanence, interdependence, and suffering, explored through everyday financial decisions
Start here
A few places to begin:
Can You Be a Good Person With a Bad Portfolio? — ethical ambiguity, imperfect portfolios, and doing good anyway
Why I Feel Bad Every Time I Check My Portfolio — FOMO, comparison, and benchmarking traps
The Work of Doing Nothing — patience, restraint, and long-term investing
Why Wall Street’s tantrums don’t faze me—but my toddler’s do — control, reactivity, and what actually matters
Why I write
I’m an amateur investor and a student of both investing and Buddhism.
I write to learn—to simplify ideas that can sometimes feel unnecessarily complex.
I also write with the hope that it might offer others an accessible entry point into these topics, which are enormous and can feel intimidating at first.
Who is The Buddh-ish Investor?
A few things about me:
I’m an amateur investor who has been managing my family’s portfolio for over a decade.
I’ve been studying Buddhism and practicing mindfulness for just as long.
I have no formal training in either field. My professional background is in a different discipline.
I’m based in Canada, which occasionally shapes the examples I use, but the ideas here are meant to be broadly applicable.
A note on “Buddh-ish”
I’m not a teacher or an expert.
“Buddh-ish” reflects that—an attempt to engage with these ideas imperfectly, in real life.
If you’re interested in both investing and how you relate to it, you may find something here.
