Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
I’ve been living in Spain for over a year now. Enough time to completely change my social circle. Valencia’s expat life is quite vibrant and, if you really take the time to get involved, you get to meet a lot of interesting digital nomads. One of these recent encounters gave me a lot to think … Read more
It’s been almost a month since I announced the relaunch of ZenTasktic, and since then a lot happened. I did my best to cram as many hours into this, and although this felt a bit overwhelming at times (especially when you live and work in Spain, where taking things easy is the natural way of … Read more
Now that we have an idea about Buddhist concepts like impermanence or karma, let’s see what meditation is. Somehow predictably, meditation, as a concept, has been very much twisted, transformed and modified in the Western part of the world. I said “predictably”, because there is always an acceptable degree of transformation to be expected in … Read more
As you read this, in the back of your mind there is a constant humming and buzzing. You may not be aware of it, as you’re focusing on the screen, reading this very sentence, but it’s there. You may think about what to eat in the next ten minutes, or where to go tomorrow, or … Read more
Since you all know now my reasons for running ridiculously long distances, I thought to leave a small recap on how the first ultra in Spain went. It happened just a few days ago, an 80km race called Eco Trail de Madrid. It was a gift for my birthday (I usually run my age for … Read more
I ran my first marathon when I was 42. Seemed like a nice number: 42 kilometers for my 42nd birthday. Back then, I thought 42 kilometers was a huge distance, an absolute upper limit, hard to imagine reaching, let aside going over it, if ever. Since then, though, I finished quite a few much longer … Read more
“Follow your passion” is, today, one of the most common mantras of the modern human. In less than a generation it became the synonym of “living a fulfilled life” in a significant part of our world. But was it like this always? Were humans always in the pursuit of their passion as the main, fundamental … Read more
Yuval Noah Harari is an interesting phenomenon. For a historian, he’s extremely popular. In a culture dominated by Instagram celebrities and teenage Youtubers, he stands out as a solid professional, astute thinker and prolific writer, with best-sellers like “Sapiens” or “21 Lessons for The 21st Century”. That’s quite a lot to put into a single … Read more
