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title: The Best Resources for Developers to Learn Finance
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meta: Find out the best free and low cost finance newsletters, websites and books for developers to learn financial literacy.
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category: post
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date: 2020-03-08
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modified: 2020-03-08
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newsletter: True
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headeralt: Python programming language and Full Stack Python logos.
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Software developers should understand the basics of finance not only
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to manage their own money but also to understand how businesses' software
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projects are funded.
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Understanding how other people who work in accounting, finance and project
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management think about business and finance in particular can help you make
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better architectural decisions when trying to build maintainable systems.
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Code is only one aspect of a large software project so working with others
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and viewing the world through their discipline will help you immensely as
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you advance your career.
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## Newsletters & Podcasts on Finance
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The fastest way to take a first step in improving your financial literacy
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is to subscribe to a few free newsletters that regularly hit your inbox,
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or a podcast if listening better fits your daily routine. I read and listen
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to each of the following newsletters and podcasts to pick up on unfamiliar
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topics then do more of my own research if I do not understand what they
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are talking or writing about.
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* [Money Stuff by Matt Levine of Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine)
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([newsletter sign up form](https://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-signup))
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is a hilarious must-read daily newsletter that covers the world of
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finance and breaks down many absurd situations such as financial
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fraud, insider trading, or competing interests in credit default swaps.
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Amazingly, the author stays out of political topics, which I find very
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refreshing because many other journalists seem to force their own biases
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about finance down your throat even if you do not want their opinions.
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* [Endless Metrics](https://endlessmetrics.substack.com) explains financial
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topics in a way that's easy to understand. What I love most about this
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newsletter is that the author will often venture into finance-related
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topics he's interested in and then explain those subjects
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* [Points of Return by John Auther](https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AT2bBytfUHQ/john-authers)
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([newsletter sign up form](http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/opinion-authers-signup)).
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This author is incredibly knowledgeable about finance and typically
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provides a solid grounding in long-term fundamentals rather than the
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short-term hyperbole that is pervasive in cable television financial
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journalism.
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* [Odd Lots](https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots) covers kind
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of whatever topics the hosts find interesting such as pandemic bonds,
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repo market disruption, sovereign debt restructuring and emerging
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markets. That's why it's so good - the hosts bring on an expert in that
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topic and ask a ton of great questions because they want to learn
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what's going on for themselves. You follow along with them as they
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try to understand some of the oft-esoteric subject areas of finance.
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## Books, Websites and Magazines for Finance
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Newsletters and podcasts are great for prodding you into discovering
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topics you did not know you needed to learn. When you discover something
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that you want to go deeper on in finance, here are a few of my favorite
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books and websites that range from the very basics of finance to broader
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macroeconomic data trends.
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* I learned most of my basic finance knowledge when I read
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[Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals](https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Intelligence-Professionals-Really-Numbers/dp/1422119149)
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in graduate school ([go Hoos](https://www.virginia.edu/)!). The book
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is well-written, straightforward and accessible, particularly because
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it clearly targets its software developer audience.
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* [Don't Quit Your Day Job](https://dqydj.com/) uses a ton of metrics
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and statistics to ground their articles on financial topics that
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are often relevant specifically to software developers. For example,
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the article on
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[How Many Developers are There in America, and Where Do They Live?](https://dqydj.com/number-of-developers-in-america-and-per-state/)
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is fascinating and especially useful because they explain their
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data sources and analysis methodology.
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* [Money Magazine](https://money.com/) can be useful to pick up in paper
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edition for a few months to understand personal finance basics. After a
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few months you'll discover the articles and topics tend to recycle so
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there are diminishing returns to reading it after you have familiarized
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yourself with most of the topics.
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* [Longtermtrends](https://www.longtermtrends.net/) aggregates long term
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high-level financial data and displays it. I find looking at these
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charts gets me away from the day-to-day "oh the stock market is down"
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and towards thinking about what happens when you invest money over many
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years or decades.
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## Specific Articles on Financial Topics
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The following individual articles I have found to be both well-written and
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extremely useful for specific scenarios such as evaluating stock-based
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equity compensation, or negotiating your salary.
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* [Salary negotiation](https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/)
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* [Stock Options](https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-options)
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* [Open Guide to Equity Compensation](https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation)
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