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P5-C2 · 6-Week Reading Roadmap for Getting Started

Core One-Liner

6 weeks × 10 hours/week = 60 hours — This is the minimum threshold to go from zero AI investing knowledge to being able to systematically discuss it with others.

Further Reading — Free Sources Only

P5-C2 (Part 5, last chapter). Week-by-week recommendations, all using free sources from P5-C1.


1. 6-Week Timeline Overview

Week Focus Key Deliverable
Week 1 Part 1 C1-C5 · Industry History + Technology + Hardware Can explain AI's 70 years + Transformer + NVDA's position in 30 minutes
Week 2 Part 1 C6-C10 · Supply Chain + Business + Applications + Geopolitics Can assign any AI stock to one of 5 supply chain roles
Week 3 Part 2.A · General Investment Models (5 chapters) DCF / Mental Models / Historical Comparisons / Sizing / Behavior
Week 4 Part 2.B · AI-Specific (5 chapters) + Write Your First Thesis 1 yaml thesis (all 5 self-checks pass)
Week 5 Part 3 · Real Analysis Process (5 chapters) Add multi-PM + anti-thesis to your thesis
Week 6 Part 4 Cases + Part 5 + Patterns Review + Analyze 1 New Event 2-page markdown analysis (new event) + establish ongoing review rhythm

Total Investment: 10 hours/week × 6 weeks = 60 hours.


2. Week 1 · Industry History + Technology + Hardware (10 hr)

Day Content Duration
Day 1-2 Part 1 C1 · AI 70-Year Brief History (this site, 1 hr) + Acquired NVDA 3-part podcast 3 hr
Day 3 C2 · Transformer + Scaling Laws (1 hr) + Lex Fridman #421 Druckenmiller (excerpt, 1 hr) 2 hr
Day 4 C3 · Why NVDA Is Not Intel 1 hr
Day 5 C4 · LLM Intuition (No Math) 1 hr
Day 6-7 C5 · Why GPU/HBM/Liquid Cooling/Nuclear Power + Actually Read 1 NVDA 10-K Risk Factors Section 3 hr

Deliverable: Can explain AI's 70-year history to a friend + explain why NVDA has 75% gross margin.


3. Week 2 · Supply Chain + Business + Applications + Geopolitics (10 hr)

Day Content Duration
Day 1 Part 1 C6 · 5 Supply Chain Roles + 60 Ticker Map 1.5 hr
Day 2 C7 · Business Models + Value Capture (5-Dimension Score) 1.5 hr
Day 3 C8 · What AI Applications Look Like Today (4 Major Layers of Revenue) 1.5 hr
Day 4 C9 · US-China + Export Controls + Energy 1.5 hr
Day 5-6 C10 · Build Intuition with 5 Real Cases + Pair with Coatue Goldman 2024 Presentation 3 hr
Day 7 Pick 1 Buffett Shareholder Letter (recommend 2024) + Read Any 1 Howard Marks Memo 1 hr

Deliverable: Can explain the AI industry for 30 minutes to a friend, and they can follow along.


4. Week 3 · General Investment Models (10 hr)

Day Content Duration
Day 1-2 Part 2.A C1 · Valuation Basics (DCF / Multiples / Margin of Safety) + Damodaran Valuation Intro YouTube (2 hr) 3 hr
Day 3 C2 · Mental Models (Buffett / Munger / Graham — The Big Three) 1.5 hr
Day 4 C3 · Historical Comparisons (Dotcom / Mobile / Industrial Revolution) 1.5 hr
Day 5 C4 · Portfolio Construction (Sizing) 1.5 hr
Day 6-7 C5 · Behavioral Finance (6 Biases) + Self-Audit Your Portfolio (~30 min) 2.5 hr

Deliverable: Can evaluate 1 thesis using 5 major Mental Models + identify your 2-3 most common biases.


5. Week 4 · AI-Specific Analysis + Write Your First Thesis (10 hr)

Day Content Duration
Day 1 Part 2.B C1 · What Problem Does Your Stock Solve (30 min) + C2 · 4-Dimension Thesis (1 hr) 1.5 hr
Day 2 C3 · Valuation/Financial Term Glossary + Pair with 1 Motley Fool NVDA Q4 FY26 Transcript 2 hr
Day 3 C4 · Real Walkthrough (NVDA) 2 hr
Day 4 C5 · Write Your Own Thesis (Template + 5 Self-Checks) 1 hr
Day 5-7 Use Builder to Write Your First Own Thesis (Your Most Familiar Ticker, Not NVDA) 3.5 hr

Deliverable: 1 yaml thesis file + all 5 self-checks pass.


6. Week 5 · Real Analysis Process (10 hr)

Day Content Duration
Day 1 Part 3 C1 · Hedge Fund 5-Step Process + Pair with Druckenmiller Lex Podcast Excerpt 2 hr
Day 2 C2 · Buffett 5-Step Framework + Berkshire 2024 Annual Meeting YouTube (1 hr Summary) 2 hr
Day 3 C3 · Find Industry Bottlenecks in 5 Steps (HBM Timeline Case) 1.5 hr
Day 4 C4 · Multi-PM 3 Perspectives (Value/Growth/Macro) 1.5 hr
Day 5 C5 · How to Write an Anti-Thesis 1 hr
Day 6-7 Add multi-PM + anti-thesis sections to Your Week 4 Thesis + Register on Whalewisdom + Follow 5 Top Funds 2 hr

Deliverable: Thesis 2.0 — includes multi-PM + anti-thesis sections.


7. Week 6 · Public Cases + Patterns Review + Analyze New Event (10 hr + Ongoing)

Day Content Duration
Day 1 Part 4 C1 · DeepSeek Selloff Forensic + C2 · Samsung Loses HBM Market 2 hr
Day 2 C3 · Stargate Beneficiary Chain + C4 · Export Controls → Domestic Substitution 2 hr
Day 3 C5 · Forensic on Why Buffett Didn't Buy NVDA 1 hr
Day 4 Part 5 C1 · Free Source System Map (Set Up RSS / Follow Podcasts) 1 hr
Day 5 Review 30 Patterns (Focus on Patterns Relevant to Your Thesis) 1.5 hr
Day 6-7 Pick 1 Recent New Event (e.g., Latest NVDA Earnings / New AI Announcement), Use Part 3's 5 Tools to Analyze It Yourself, Write 2 Pages of Markdown 2.5 hr

Deliverable: You analyze 1 new event yourself + establish an ongoing review rhythm.


8. What You Should Have After 6 Weeks (Self-Check)

Capability How to Verify
30-Minute AI Industry Explanation Explain to a friend with zero background; they can follow
1 Own Thesis (Full Version) yaml + 5 self-checks + multi-PM + anti-thesis
Ongoing Review Rhythm 30 min/week + 1 hr/month (locked in)
Public Source Channels Whalewisdom + Motley Fool RSS + 5 podcast entry points
Ability to Analyze New Events Any new AI event, analyze it in 30 min using Part 3 tools

All 5 ✓ → You are already ahead of 90% of retail investors.


9. Week 7+ Continue (Ongoing Accumulation)

Direction What to Do
Expand Thesis Library Add 1-2 stocks per month (accumulate 5-10 within 6 months)
Weekly 30-Min Review Check if thesis supports still hold / red_flags triggered
Monthly 1-Hour Deep Review Rewrite core_thesis (1-2 sentences) + update catalysts
Quarterly 90-Day Review Assess if thesis from 90 days ago was correct; what was learned
Deep Dive on 1 Stock Pick your best thesis; do a 3-6 month deep dive
Learn 1 Old PM's History Read Buffett's shareholder letters starting from 1995 (1 per month)
Cross-Industry Beyond AI: cloud / cybersecurity / EV / biotech (avoid single-sector concentration)

Key: Don't rush to pay. Free sources are more than enough for your first 12 months to truly improve.


10. Part 5 Complete

🎉 Finished 2 chapters of Further Reading. You now:

  • ✅ Know 6 major categories of free sources + their priority (P5-C1)
  • ✅ Have a 6-week day-by-day roadmap (P5-C2)
  • ✅ Can immediately set up your information channels in 30 minutes

Completing Part 1-5 gives you a complete toolkit:

Part You Have
Part 1 AI industry knowledge across 6 major areas
Part 2 Investment framework (general + AI-specific)
Part 3 5 real analysis processes
Part 4 5 public real-world cases
Part 5 Free source map + 6-week roadmap

Next Step: Actually ship 1 of your own theses. After 6 weeks, you will be a completely different person from today.


11. The Ultimate One-Liner

"Investment learning is not a knowledge problem; it's a process + time problem. Part 1-5 gives you the process; 6 weeks and 60 hours is the minimum threshold; after that, 30 minutes of ongoing review each week compounds."