Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
A grape is beautiful thing. Sweet, juicy, refreshing, nurturing. I love grapes. Wine is something you make out of grape and… processes. One of these processes involves crushing the grape and make it lose parts of itself (like everything that’s not in the fruity part). Another process is fermenting, or letting the crushed grapes accumulate … Read more
Close to Praca do Comercio, in Lisbon, there’s a street on the bank of the Tagus river, filled with terraces. It’s the first street of the Alfama neighborhood, a place that I started to like very much lately. Ever since the Covid restrictions have been lifted, a couple of weeks ago, there’s quite a bit … Read more
At some point in my life, I ran a coworking business. Part of it consisted in renting the venue for events. You may be surprised, but a coworking business usually gets more than 30% of its income from events, sometimes up to 50%. One day, I received a request for quote for quite a big … Read more
Right in front of the coffee shop I’m working these days there’s a flea market. It runs only twice a week, so I had no idea how it looks, until today – because today is one of those two days a week when it’s allowed, and, on top of that, those Covid restrictions which canceled … Read more
I think I started to work from coffee shops more than a decade ago. Way before it was cool (I know I wrote that before, but I can’t get enough of it, to be honest). In time, I created a small routine. I wake up, do my personal rituals, and then I get out of … Read more
Have you ever experienced this? I mean, finding an old pair of jeans, routinely searching the pockets, only to find at the bottom of it, with a mix of exhilaration, surprise and expectation, a little bit of cash? Maybe not a lot, probably just enough to have lunch out, but totally out of nowhere, like … Read more
4 months after deciding I will publish an article every day in 2021, here I am. Still kicking. It was by far the most difficult month, and I’m not gonna lie, I was close to not making it at least three or for times. But all is well when it ends well. Let’s see a … Read more
