Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
Frugality lowers entropy, and that supports, in the long run, financial resilience. Now, I’ve said. Two big words in one sentence. I mean, one big word, “frugality”, and a ginarmous concept, “financial resilience”. Let’s try to take them one at a time. Frugality is the skill of living simple, without going overboard, but without going … Read more
You may be familiar with the saying: “The obstacle is the way”. It implies that whatever hurdles we are facing, we shouldn’t try to avoid them, as the path towards betterment is by learning to overcome that hurdle, not by dodging it. It’s also the title of a popular book by Ryan Holiday, and a … Read more
If you collect 100 black ants and 100 fire ants and put them in a glass jar nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other. Attributed to Sir David Attenborough The quote above, as witty (and true) as … Read more
Sometimes you have great ideas. And, if you’re lucky, you even get the energy and resources to make those ideas real. Other times, not so much. And yet, we tend to put more weight on the great times that we have, on the big ideas that we stumble upon, on the fantastic projects that we’re … Read more
You may remember Jeremy Clarkson from the days of Top Gear, a car show mixing (obviously) cars, humor, sarcasm and weird ideas. But he’s way more than that. A journalist, writer, TV host and a few other roles, Clarkson has become a quite popular public person, albeit a bit controversial (which I like, to be … Read more
Every time we think about money, or about having access to relevant amounts of money, we think in terms of a unique event. Like, oh, what if I would suddenly have 10x my net-worth, right now. How many things could I do with that money, how fast would I pay may mortgage, or buy that … Read more
If you look at all the technological advance of the last hundreds of years, you’d say that humanity evolved a lot. We have instant communication all around the globe, we can be in any part of the planet in a matter of hours, we reached to the Moon, like physically, and we unleashed the power … Read more
I’ve been working mostly from home for the last week, which means I had to solve the morning coffee differently. I don’t have an espresso machine, so I resorted to an old coffee making technique, in which the coffee is “scalded”. You put a teaspoon of coffee in a normal mug, then add boiling water … Read more
