I've held this opinion for a while and never said it out loud: software engineers, on average, should be better investors than finance MBAs. Not because of some secret knowledge. Because of the mental tooling we already have from building software. Nobody talks about this. The finance world markets itself as a priesthood — specialized vocabulary, opaque jargon, Bloomberg terminals that cost $25k/year. But when you actually sit down with company financials, you realize: this is just a system with inputs, outputs, and feedback loops. Engineers are unusually good at reasoning about those. What engineers actually do well Tolerating uncertainty. Every software project ships with incomplete specs. You learn to make decisions with 60% of the information you wish you had. Most retail investors freeze when they don't have certainty. Experienced engineers already know certainty is a myth. Thinking in systems.…