The AI-Era Formula for Financial Freedom
With AI accelerating at an unprecedented pace, no one truly knows what the workforce will look like in five years. What is clear is that relying solely on labour “exchanging hours for income” will become increasingly fragile in a world where machines can scale infinitely.
Financial resilience in this new era comes from being a capital allocator, not just a labour allocator. By positioning capital in front of the largest secular trend of our lifetime, you give yourself the ability to participate in AI-driven growth rather than be disrupted by it.
INSIGHTS
TheBucket’s Insights
Monthly Insights into our investment philosophy along with lessons we’ve learnt along our journey.
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The Five F’s Lifestyle Audit: Lessons From a Stress-Test Year
Each year I run a simple but brutally honest exercise on my life: The Five F’s Lifestyle Audit………Friendship, Family, Financial, Fitness and Fun. I’ve written previously about how the framework works and why I use it (read that here), so I won’t repeat the mechanics. Instead, this article focuses on what the most recent data
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Calendar Year 2025 – Annual Portfolio Review
As we enter 2026, we are pleased to report another year of solid performance across our diversified portfolio. For the 2025 calendar year, the portfolio delivered an annual return of 13.36%, bringing our Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to 16.31% per annum since we began tracking performance in January 2022. While this represents a modest
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My Next Step Toward a Medicine 3.0 Life: How I Finally Found a System That Matches Peter Attia’s Philosophy
In my previous article My Journey to Medicine 3.0: How Peter Attia Changed the Way I Think About Health I explored how Peter Attia’s framework changed the way I think about health, longevity, and prevention. What I didn’t fully appreciate at the time was this: Understanding Medicine 3.0 is easy. Implementing it inside the Australian
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Riding the Long Waves: Understanding Secular vs Cyclical Market Trends
In Technology Has Been Eating the World, But It’s About to Exponentially Consume It, I explored how innovation compounds exponentially……how AI, data, and automation are reshaping everything from productivity to investing. And in Why a 12% Annual Return Is Essential to Maintain Your Wealth, I argued that investors need sustained compounding just to stand still,
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The Coming Fusion of AI and Money: How Stablecoins Will Power the Exponential Economy
When I wrote Technology Has Been Eating the World, But It’s About to Exponentially Consume It earlier this year, I argued that artificial intelligence isn’t just another wave of innovation……..it’s an accelerant for everything that came before it. But what happens when AI collides with money itself? 2026 might be the year we find out.
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How I Try to Overcome My Behavioural Biases with the 3×3 Loop
In my previous article, I outlined the psychological biases and behaviours that have repeatedly tripped me up as an investor. Understanding those biases was a big step, but knowing them wasn’t enough. I needed a simple framework I could actually use in real time……….before I buy, while I’m holding, and when I exit. That’s how
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The psychological biases that have held back my investing
What has held me back (and I suspect many others) on my investing journey isn’t a lack of information…….it’s the reactive decisions I’ve made in hot, emotional moments where I FOMO into a trend or panic sell into a falling market. Those choices weren’t random; they were driven by hard‑wired psychological biases. Below, I’ve outlined
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Bitcoin Cycle Peak Indicators – Update Aug 15 (More Indicators Added)
As per our plan around timing the exit of this crypto cycle, outlined below is where the indicators are currently tracking. New Indicators – Bitcoin Cycle Risk Framework We’ve decided to incorporate some additional indicators courtesy of Jamie Coutts over at RealVision. The Bitcoin Cycle Risk Framework by Jamie Coutts is a data-driven model designed
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My Journey to Medicine 3.0: How Peter Attia Changed the Way I Think About Health
Since I was a child, I’ve always loved physical exercise. You could say I’m addicted to it. Sports, gym sessions, running, soccer, afl, surfing….it’s been a part of my daily routine for decades. Through my youth and well into my 40s, I believed that being active equaled being healthy. After all, I exercised every day,
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The Collapse of the Old Guard: Why Major Parties Are Losing Touch in Australia and the U.S.
We’re living through a political realignment….and not the kind either side is prepared for. In both Australia and the United States, we’ve seen once-dominant major parties implode under the weight of outdated ideologies, internal dysfunction, and a refusal to evolve with their electorates. I’m not a Trump supporter, nor do I consider myself a Labor
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Financial Freedom Is Rarely Achieved by Selling Your Time
Are you an employee or a self-employed business owner simply selling your time for money? Most working people fall into one of these two categories…..and as a result, they’re effectively earning an hourly rate no matter how good the title or salary sounds. But a small percentage of the population earn income even while they’re
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Bitcoin Cycle Peak Indicators – Update May 15
As per our plan around timing the exit of this crypto cycle, outlined below is where the indicators are currently tracking. Here’s a snapshot of where the key indicators currently sit and what they’re suggesting about Bitcoin’s next moves. Since Trump’s inauguration, Bitcoin has paused its upward momentum, largely due to shifting macroeconomic conditions. Like
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