Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
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
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
It’s a tricky question, I know, because I’m not really interested in the differences, to be honest. I’m interested in the only thing they have in common, and that is: they’re both made up characters. They don’t exist in the sense they appear to be existing. Don’t get me wrong, there is a person somewhere … 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
GameStop is a retailer which was facing a lot of hurdles because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was planning to close 450 stores this year. Why would this matter to you? Well, even if you’re not in their target market, and even if you’re not interested in stocks, you should pay attention to this little … Read more
Every 3 years or so, a certain part of media gets hyped about a seemingly unexplainable appreciation of a certain asset. The media we’re talking about is mainly business and economic related, and the asset is Bitcoin (or crypto-currencies, if you prefer). This sudden appreciation, if you really take the time to look into it, … Read more
A few months ago I started a promotion experiment. I wanted to see if Facebook / Instagram are still worthy of that, or – as my hunches were telling me – these outlets are already so opaque that they don’t even serve their initial purpose, which is connecting people. My conclusion is at the end … Read more