Liam Rodgers

I'm using high school to get real exposure to finance instead of waiting until college to start. Right now, that means shadowing a Certified Financial Planner, building real financial plans, trading real positions in the market, and reaching out directly to professionals across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, and wealth management to learn from people actually doing the work.

I named this site Compounding because the idea means more to me than just interest accumulating in an account. The same principle applies to knowledge, habits, and decision-making. Small, consistent effort, repeated over time, builds into something much bigger than any single day of it would suggest. That's true of a portfolio, and it's just as true of understanding markets, building discipline, or getting better at making decisions under uncertainty.

I'm not trying to present myself as an expert, because I'm not one (yet). My goal with this site is to build a real understanding of finance over time by reading, researching, trading, and writing about what I actually take away from each of those. The point isn't to sound impressive today, it's to have an honest record of how my thinking develops.

This site is where I keep that record. I learn something, I write it down, and over time I get to see how my thinking actually changes instead of just assuming it has. My longer goal is a strong business school application and a career in finance, and this is part of how I get there, but the real value of it is having an honest account of how I got from not knowing something to understanding it.

If you want to connect, I'm on LinkedIn, and you can reach me on the contact page.