Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
Let me tell you a story. In Ruzafa, one of Valencia’s trending neighborhoods, there was a small restaurant called Kana Makhan. I wouldn’t know about it if it wasn’t for a digital nomad meetup that ended there. One of the meetup’s goals was a continuous exploration of Valencia’s night out scene, and we were trying … Read more
If you’re new to my blog (or to the whole concept of financial resilience) let’s start with the basic definition: Financial resilience is the ability to keep a steady income, regardless of the surrounding context. If you read this carefully you’ll notice a couple of not so obvious things. First, this is about generating income … Read more
About 5 years ago I found myself in a pretty bad financial situation. A combination of bad luck, big entrepreneurial risks and political changes (affecting the economical landscape) turned my life upside down. I won’t go into details, maybe I will do this later, in a separate post. It took me about one a half … Read more
Money doesn’t exist intrinsically, by itself, isolated from context. It’s a collective hallucination, hence it relies on people constantly creating it. Our minds are tricking us into believing that money is “solid” and “real”, but that’s just another example of how magic thinking helps us cope with the unpredictability and uncertainty of our lives. To … Read more
I almost missed yesterday’s post. As you probably know, I started a 365 days writing challenge at the beginning of the year. The goal is to publish an article every day of 2021, until it ends. In the beginning I even had enough slack to schedule articles for 2-3 days in advance, but that’s not … Read more
I lived in a communist country, Romania, until I was 19. Just after I turned 19, Romania went through a process called “the Romanian Revolution” (which turned out to be not quite a revolution, after a few years) at the end of which it became a democracy. But until then, the farthest place allowed for … Read more
Elon Musk, who shares a few similarities with Santa Claus, as you previously read in this article, has a net worth of 149 billion USD (source: investopedia). Bitcoin, the most important cryptocurrency of the moment, has a 836 billions USD market cap, with a daily transaction volume ofabout 84 billion USD. The Entanglement Recently, Elon … Read more
Apart from the fact they rhyme together pretty well, Lisbon’s pigeons have also something in common. Namely, Lisbon. I know I’m confusing you, so let’s start by telling a short story. The Space Invader It’s Saturday morning and I decided to chill in one of the coffee shops I found suitable for work in the … Read more
