Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
5 months later, I’m still doing it. In total, including this one, I published an article on my blog every day for the last 151 days. The 365 days writing challenge I started at the beginning of the year is still going on. Not even to the half of it yet, but it’s still going … Read more
Almost every financially resilient person I’ve met went through a traumatic personal or financial event before becoming financially resilient. It was either the loss of someone that provided, or a drastic change in financial conditions: bankruptcy, job loss and alike. This traumatic event ignited a series of changes, of behavior alterations that eventually led not … Read more
In a famous discourse, a Commencement Address at Caltech in 1974, Richard Feynman mentioned a phenomenon known as “cargo cults”. During WW2, a few small island populations in the Southern Pacific witnessed an unusual situation: airplanes landed from the sky, bringing with them food, strange, magical tech and precious stuff. The cultural gap was big … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about various growth patterns. And by “growth” I mean “improvement”, or better adaptation to the current context, along with an increased capacity of reaching one’s goals. Of all the patterns, I thought to write today about the most popular two: incremental growth versus sudden (lucky?) leaps (most popular in … Read more
An angry status on Facebook. A long, punchy thread on Twitter. Changing your avatar picture with a ready-made frame. Arguing with strangers on the other side of the Earth, from the comfort of your coach, on topics you never really took the time to properly reasearch. All these are forms of virtue signaling. The rise … Read more
I have a really hard time resting. When I get into “work mode” I summon all the resources available in the moment and keep pushing forward. Obviously, it’s not unusual that I very often have to face a hard reset – either voluntary, or involuntary. There is probably more than one cause for this behavior. … Read more
If you watch the crypto space closely, you surely noticed the last couple of days price action. Although I doubt “price action” would be an accurate description of what happened. “Blood on the streets” would probably paint a more accurate picture. All crypto assets lost more than 35% of their value in a matter of … Read more
First of all, apologies for the strong word “idiots”. I mean it. Probably a more accurate description would be “confused people”. It’s not like they are intending to be idiots, but, unfortunately, that’s the effect of their behavior: they get to be perceived and further identified as idiots. Now that we all agree the word … Read more