Glad to see a fellow fundamental indexer on HN! As a US based investor, I personally invest in the RAFI US broad market fundamental index (FNDB ETF) which does keep up with the Vanguard US total market over the past 10 years except the bubbly years of 2020/2021 & 2024/2025, even with a higher expense ratio.
In my case, after observing the Covid-19 craziness in market, I decided to dig further on value strategies and discovered this gem from Research Affiliates in Journal of Portfolio Management circa 2012, which completely convinced me on the concept of fundamental indexation as a superior alternative to market-cap weighted total market index.
Rational Reminder podcast for a highly technical deep-dive on all topics Investing & Personal Finance. They have interviewed multiple highly cited/influential Professors from leading universities.
The Missing Billionaires: A Guide To Better Financial Decisions, by Victor Haghani & James White.
This book covers wide ranging topics within investing, hedging, personal finance, lifecycle investing and asset pricing.
One of the key ideas is recognizing comprehensively that investing and spending are both simultaneous goals of lifecycle investing.
It is absolutely refreshing to see the basics of investing revisited in a theoretically sound & rigorous framework.
The authors run a wealth management firm,
Elm Wealth.
This wiki is one of the best resources in USA for simple, straightforward, no-nonsense personal finance strategy which has been battle-tested over multiple decades.
Also, there is a very insightful and concise personal finance course at Stanford:
Bogleheads.org forum is the gold standard for index investors.
TL;DR: Mostly the advice is to ignore the news, most of the information (including the news shown on CNBC) is already baked into the current prices (efficient markets). Stay the course!
"We found a lot of other Indian expats in the same situation as us - wanting to invest in India for financial and emotional reasons, but unable to do so easily or consistently. We wished a simple product existed to solve for this online. We couldn’t find one, so we built it."
Simple products do exist which provide exposure to passive indexes for India equities in USD.
Any NRI in US can invest in these ETFs at reasonable cost (about 0.64%-0.85% Expense Ratio):
1975 ACM Turing Award Lecture on "Computer Science as an empirical inquiry: Symbols and Search" by Herbert Simon & Alan Newell (inventors of list processing).
Your question resonates with me.
The path, using your programming skills, that I believe has good chances of significantly & rapidly improving compensation is to uplevel your skills & attempt for the highest tier of compensation band by interviewing aggressively.