Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself...

May 2025

The anonymous days are over.

Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Casey Donaldson. Most of you know me from my Twitter. I travel the US building wind farms and use that money to invest, to become financially free.

I began traveling for work in 2018 with a net worth of—$65,000 and am currently at about $300,000. I paid off $55,000 in student loans and $10,000 in credit cards.

I have made plenty of mistakes along the way and look forward to sharing them with you so you can learn from me. Learning from me is much cheaper than the school of hard knocks.

I have lived in 7 states in 7 years and traveled outside of the US at least once per year.

After taking a few months hiatus and thinking where I wanted to go with my newsletter, I am rebranding a bit.

What things will look like moving forward:

• The newsletter will come out once per month

• Broken down into 3 sections:

  • Investments

  • Lifestyle

  • Aesthetics

• Upgraded subscription model: $50/year or $9/month

Preventing one bad decision will be worth years of subscriptions

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Aesthetics

Some books change the way you look at the world. And 11.22.63 by Stephen King did that for me.

It’s one of those books that you feel like the characters exist in real life. It is a beautiful mix of fiction and non-fiction that makes you feel like you are living back in the glory days of America.

It is clearly about the JFK storyline. While I learned a lot about the JFK plot and what was happening in Texas during that time, that was not the best part of the book.

I am trying not to reveal the ending for those who would like to read it, but the message I took from the book was that everything happens for a reason, and you are exactly where you are supposed to be.

The book does include traveling back in time. While the past is continually trying to fight changing it, what is scary is what happens to the future.

How does the past fight back? By making you sick, having your car break down, or almost getting killed in the act of important moments.

For those familiar with the butterfly effect, minor changes in the past can produce large changes in the future.

The Butterfly Effect: tiny changes in one place can have significant, far-reaching, and often unpredictable effects elsewhere. It's like a butterfly flapping its wings in one location could indirectly cause a hurricane to form on the other side of the world. 

It can seem like going back and saving a life would always be for the better, but it can make the future far worse.

While the main character, Jake Epping, thinks it is great to go back multiple times to change things, by the end, he doesn’t even want to go back in time and change a conversation that was had because of the impact on the future.

It seems every time he goes back and thinks he is doing something good, the high amount of variables makes something else worse.

Like previously mentioned, everything turns out the way it is supposed to. Quit thinking that if only you had done something different, life would be better.

Appreciate what you have now. Learn from the mistakes you made. If the past were different, you never know what the current times would be like. It could be worse than you could ever imagine.

Every day you wake up healthy is a beautiful day.

Lifestyle

I am officially a homeowner as of March 2025.

If you do not own your own home, home ownership is just signing yourself up for never-ending projects.

I can’t complain too much because we found exactly what we were looking for.

Getting out of the city was a priority for me. Not only are housing prices outrageous in most of the country currently, but paying that high of prices to impress people you doesn’t make sense to me.

Sitting on 15 acres with my own septic and well, watching sunsets and wildlife was what I needed.

The Covid pandemic taught me how quickly the world can go to shit. While I was not prepared for the world shutting down at that time, I am getting there now.

I have begun to build my fortress. Step 1 to any plan, whether financial or something else, is defense. No matter what happens in the world now, my family will be safe.

Starlink for Wi-Fi, cameras, a wood-burning heater, a propane generator, and freeze-dried food are slowly coming along at the new place.

While I am not a full prepper, these things are requirements in the world we currently live in.

With the blackouts in Spain that almost spread to the entire continent of Europe and the US power grid that is already maxed out, if something isn’t done quickly, we may be seeing 1989 USSR rolling blackouts…and we all know how that story ends.

Tariffs on electrical parts to expand the grid and the reindustrialization of America will only put more strain on a system that is already maxed out.

You can call me crazy, but if you do not listen to the warning signs, you are going to wish you did if bad goes to worse.

You have been warned.

Even if you do not live on acreage, there are steps you can take to ensure you are prepared for anything that the world throws at you:

• Food & water

• Flashlights & batteries

• First aid kit

• Some form of backup power

• Essential tools — crank radio

• Emergency currency — cash/gold

• A plan

Everyone is different in how much of their life they want to be spent on being prepared for the worst.

I probably think about it more than the average person, but I hate feeling vulnerable.

You are crazy until you’re not.

Investments

This section will be longer than normal as I go through each investment. As my investments normally have no change, in the future, this section will not be as long.