Human Capital ETF

Live Experiment

Field Notes

A minimal, chronological log of the Human Capital ETF experiment. Each note is short and observational—closer to an engineering change log than a blog post.

Apr 2026

Note 05

Q1 audit: what the core layer actually contains

After four months of tagging work to buckets, a closer look at what Core Assets actually means in practice—and why tracking maintenance separately changes the picture.

Mar 2026

Note 04

Micro-rebalance after three months

Short field note on how the initial allocation behaved in practice and what three specific changes were made after the first quarter of the experiment.

Feb 2026

Note 03

Noticing friction in the distribution layer

An observation on how writing and video cadence actually behaves when treated as part of a portfolio instead of an afterthought—and what structural adjustment helped.

Jan 2026

Note 02

Setting the initial allocation

A concise record of the starting portfolio across Core, Growth, Distribution, and Meta layers at the moment the experiment began.

Dec 2025

Note 01

Why this experiment exists

A preface: why an investor's framework for human capital felt more useful than existing self-improvement models, and what the experiment is actually trying to find out.