Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
The city is slowly preparing for holidays. It’s not too crowded, but not deserted as it was last year. Just normal, I guess. The Christmas lights are flooding the central neighborhoods, creating small, intricate spirals of flashes, fading as the streets are entering less touristy areas. Scattered groups of young people are gathering in front … Read more
You’ve probably seen dozen of variations of this. It’s quite a popular meme and for good reasons. As any good joke, it mixes the unexpected with the funny in a short, easy to remember form. And yet, there is something more to it than a good meme. It’s a profound truth that is slowly carving … Read more
Sundays are for coffee and chilling. Mostly. Because sometimes, during these coffee and chilling mornings, a sparkling conversation can ensue. That’s exactly what happened today. As I was enjoying my Sunday morning coffee, a daily ritual I try to follow (almost) religiously, a friend came in the same coffee shop. We never met there, but … Read more
12 years ago I wrote a post on this blog in which I was comparing social media networks with real countries: I’m A Twitter Citizen, I Work In Stumbleupon, And I Occasionally Travel To Reddit. In that blog post, the comparison with countries was based on the numbers of users on those social networks. With … Read more
Every day, in the morning, I do a little bit of yoga. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I just do some stretching. If you know what I’m talking about, it’s just a few Surya Namaskar, a tree, frog and sometimes a headstand asanas. In a year, I don’t think I skip more … Read more
Location independence is not a luxury anymore, it’s a necessity. It’s part of a lifestyle built on top of remote working, geo arbitrage, digital first economy, and a few other abrupt developments, more or less accelerated by the latest global “black swan event”, also known as a pandemic (these tendencies existed before the pandemic, the … Read more
As you may recall, I believe location independence is a must have skill in our world. It’s not a luxury anymore. Given the lack of predictability in recent years, coupled with increased authoritarian stances all around the globe, the ability to quickly switch from one location to another, with minimal cost and maximum benefits, might … Read more
Most of the time, when we want to simplify our life, we are starting by searching for a new system. Being it a new life management framework, some sort of a magic technique or a chain of processes, we expect from this new addition to make our life simpler. Oh, the irony! We add something, … Read more
