Built for a decade, not a semester.
This is a long-term learning journal. It should still make sense when the authors are teenagers, and it should still be readable when they are adults looking back.
What this site is for
Sherman and Roy are documenting how their thinking, research skills, decision-making, and understanding of businesses evolve. Returns are recorded because they are part of the story. They are not the point.
The goal is not to beat the market. The goal is to learn how to think.
What should stay theirs
The archive should preserve authentic writing, including mistakes and changes of opinion. A 10-year-old’s simple idea is allowed to sit next to a later, more careful one. We do not tidy history to look clever.
AI may help them:
- research concepts and financial vocabulary
- organize information
- learn programming
- improve grammar
AI should not invent the investment thesis or the reflection. If a sentence is the reason they bought, held, sold, or watched, it should sound like them.
Privacy and safety
The authors are minors. This site does not display brokerage account screenshots, account numbers, balances from real statements, addresses, schools, or other private documents. Holdings shown here are a simple learning ledger, with prices entered by hand.
Anyone can read the public pages. Only the family can add journals, reports, and holdings: log in, pick Sherman or Roy, then use Add a journal / Add a report / Add a holding.
How the site is built
The public site is a static website on GitHub Pages. Journals, reports, and holdings are saved through a small Cloudflare API into a family database, so Save works on the live website. There is no AWS account to babysit.
The boys can start by writing in plain language. Later they can change the design, add a live price function, or build the compare view further. The architecture is supposed to be learnable, not impressive.