Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
Today marks the end of the seventh month of my 365 days writing challenge. For the last 211 days I published an article every day on this blog. At the end of each month I decided to write a little “checkpoint”, both to evaluate the course of the challenge, and to outline its benefits (or … Read more
It looks like these days I’m experiencing a variety of ways to think differently. Whether it’s thinking outside of the jar, or realizing the obstacle is not the bottleneck, I’m exposed (luckily) to all sort of different perspectives. Todays was no different. The Benefits Of Working From Coffee Shops No, this is not going to … Read more
I don’t even know if this qualifies as clickbait. I understand that the title may have stirred some feelings inside of you (and depending on which side you place yourself on the Covid-19 spectrum, these feelings may be reassurance or anger), but I assure you, the blog post has (almost) nothing to do with the … Read more
If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. Banksy If you ever ran an ultra-marathon, this quote will hit you as common sense. But not many people ran ultra-marathons. So let me try to break it down for you. An ultra-marathon is a race longer than a traditional 42km marathon (which in, and … Read more
We live in a very different world than just 100 years ago. We don’t realize it, because we adjusted to it, but if our grand-grand-grand-parents will land, by some time-travel miracle, next to us in a subway station, while we’re on a video call with someone across the ocean, talking about quantum physics, they will … Read more
Time to publish another installment of the weekly “Monday Moving Forward” series, a series in which we post, surprisingly, only Mondays, because that’s when we have more chances to feel unmotivated. Mondays have a bad reputation, and, to a certain extent, it’s justified. That’s why I decided to try out various approaches, tips and tricks … Read more
When I was a kid I used to play a lot with plastic, floatable toys. We didn’t have too many choices for toys back then. First, I’m talking about more than 40 years ago, second, it was communist Romania. In terms of affordable, usable toys, a plastic, simple boat would have been something major. Especially … Read more
I work from coffee shops for more than a decade, and during the last 2-3 years something changed about that. It’s not specifically about coffee shops, as it is more about my way there. Something new appeared on the sidewalks. It happened very slowly in the beginning, with just one popping out every few weeks, … Read more
