Stock Savvy Dad

Originally published in the Stock Savvy Dad newsletter on July 7, 2026

My daughters collect cans sometimes.
Not because I ask them to. They’ll notice a few cans around the house, gather them up, separate them from the regular recycling, and ask if we can take a trip to the store to cash them in. It’s a small amount of money in the end, but watching them organize it and ask for that trip taught me something about how kids actually learn the difference between earning and receiving.

Originally published in the Stock Savvy Dad newsletter on June 30, 2026.
In my early 20s I told my mother to buy Apple and Netflix stock.
I was studying business and finance at the time. I remember the conversations in college before the iPhone came out, people asking what if Apple turned the iPod into a phone so you didn’t have to carry two devices. Once it actually happened, Apple became the obvious cultural winner.