Six years ago I was writing stock breakdowns on my lunch break, hoping a couple dozen people would read them.
Today I’m telling over 11,000 of you something I still can’t quite believe.
I wrote a book.
It’s called The Lunch Break Investor. It comes out August 18, published by Harriman House.
I’ll tell you what’s in it in a second. First, why it exists.
For years now, the most common message in my inbox has been some version of the same thing:
“Thomas, I want to invest properly. But I have a job, a family, a life. I don’t have hours a day to stare at charts. Is that enough to do this well?”
Yes. More than enough.
You don’t need to quit your job. You don’t need to watch the market all day. You don’t need to beat hedge funds at their own game. Your job is the edge. A steady income and the patience to hold for years is something most professional investors would kill for.
The whole book turns on one shift: stop renting stocks, start owning businesses.
Renters stare at the price. Owners ask a simpler question. Is this a good business, run by good people, at a fair price? Then they hold while it compounds. That’s the work. And it fits in about an hour a day.
The Lunch Break Investor walks you through all of it:
→ how to spot a genuinely great business, and dodge the ones dressed up to look like one
→ a six-step Lunch Break Valuation, so you know what a company is actually worth
→ how to build a focused portfolio of 15 to 25 stocks you can run on your lunch break
Real companies, real numbers, no jargon for the sake of it. The same way I write everything here.
You can pre-order it now: steadycompounding.com/book
This is the book I wish I’d had when I started.
Thanks for being here for it.
Thomas
P.S. A strong pre-order is the signal to bookstores to put this book in front of readers who’d never otherwise find it. You were here before almost anyone else, and that’s the reason it has a shot at reaching people I’ll never meet. Thank you for that — genuinely.