You don’t have to know Git. You don’t have to be a finance major. If you can read and write, you can help.
The 60-second way: suggest an edit
Every note on this site has an “Edit this page on GitHub” link at the bottom. Click it, make your change in the browser, and GitHub walks you through submitting it. A student moderator reviews and merges.
You’ll need a free GitHub account — that’s it.
The 30-second way: open an issue
See something wrong but don’t want to fix it yourself? Open an Issue using one of our templates:
- Spotted an error — typo, wrong number, broken link.
- Suggest an explainer — something’s confusing and needs a worked example.
- Propose a new note — we haven’t covered it at all.
The bigger way: write a new note
If you want to draft a whole new explainer (say, on a topic Prof. Tantri mentioned in passing, or a current event through a macro lens), great.
- Fork the repo.
- Add a new markdown file under
_posts/with the namingYYYY-MM-DD-your-slug.md. - Use the post template at
_posts/_TEMPLATE.md. - Open a Pull Request.
Don’t worry about getting it perfect — that’s what review is for.
Who approves changes
A rotating group of student moderators, currently drawn from the Finance Club. We’re intentionally keeping the bar low for suggestions, high for merges — easy to contribute, but nothing ships without a sanity check.
The moderator roster and how to join lives in MODERATORS.md in the repo.
What makes a good contribution
- Cite sources when you add a claim (RBI data, a paper, a textbook).
- Keep the voice friendly — explain like you would to a classmate, not a professor.
- Show, don’t assert. If you’re correcting something, link or quote the authoritative source.
- Small is fine. A one-word typo fix is a great contribution. We don’t gatekeep.
Code of Conduct
This is a student-run space. Be kind, assume good faith, ask questions. The full Code of Conduct lives in the repo.