Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
When I was little, I used to fish with my bear hands in a small river near my grandfather’s house, in the countryside. It was a relatively wide river, but very shallow, with just two, three different arms, each not deeper than my ankle. We had this easy, but very effective technique: at the intersection … Read more
We’re all good at doing something. Either by training, or by natural talent. Some of us are natural born singers, while others learn hard and become skilled in very specific crafts. In time, this ability to do certain things very well develops in such a way that it starts to define us. And that’s not … Read more
When I was a I kid, I was fortunate enough to spend my holidays in the country side, at my grandparents’. It was a true countryside, we didn’t have running water, and in the first few years we didn’t even have electricity. We used to make light with a gas lamp, and heat with woods. … Read more
Lately, I’ve been doing a few more things in the dark. No, this is not about sex, you dirty mind! Seriously, I observed that the way I perform certain tasks changes if I do it in very low light levels, or even pitch dark. I accidentally stumbled upon this during my guitar practice. It starts … Read more
I am fascinated by trends. How they slowly cook, under the radar, how they explode, and how they eventually fade away. It’s like a huge, collective lens is pointing at some stuff, and that stuff is what we call mainstream, but then the lens is moving around, magnifying some other thing that was there all … Read more
A couple of months ago I began to run again, in preparation for Lisbon marathon – after a 4 months hiatus. The fastest route, the one that I’m usually running on, is going along the river. The good part is that it’s flat (if you ever been to Lisbon you know how difficult it is … Read more
Rozy is a virtual human model. Meaning “she” is a bunch of pixels stacked together in a recognizable (and crafted to look beautiful to our eyes) human shape by an AI algorithm. She is not real in the sense you and I are real. “She” (note the quotation marks, again) is just an ephemeral collection … Read more
If you think this post is about psychedelics or other types or tripping, tough luck. It isn’t. It’s about more mundane, yet orders of magnitude more important ways to span multiple realities. First one is on the temporal axis. Second one is on the space axis. In simpler words, you span multiple realities on your … Read more
