Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
It’s a nice Wednesday morning, you open your computer as always, and, to your surprise, you find an email from a prince. Someone, who must be a prince, or the heir of a prince, because he just presented himself as such, finally found your email. And, for once, fate turned around, because it seems this … Read more
If you understood the title above from the first read, congratulations. If you didn’t, let’s break it down in each language that I’m hinting at. Voulez vous apprendre une langue nouvelle? Would you like to learn a new language? Quieres apprender una nueva idioma? Vre?i s? înv??a?i o limb? nou?? I will continue now in … Read more
Very briefly put, presence, patience and frustration are the most important ingredients of my learning processes. And by learning processes I understand a very large category of activities, like learning a new language, learning to play the guitar, learning to adjust and adapt in a new country (location independence), learning to manage your money (financial … 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
There’s something about maps that appeals a lot to me. They convey in a very simple and concentrated way information that otherwise would have needed thousands of words to contain. I get a particular feeling of clarity when I’m able to put into four quadrants the most important parts of a topic, and start describing … Read more
“Coffee and cigarettes” is a 2003 movie by Jim Jarmusch. If you didn’t see it yet, I recommend it. You may be surprised to see a Roberto Benigni (Oscar winner for La Vita e Bella) at the beginning of his career. Benigni played in many Jarmsuch movies, and there are at least two that I … Read more
Entropy is a wonderful concept. It measures the degree of disorder or randomness in a system. If you really think about it, being able to measure how messy something is it’s actually mesmerizing. Because if we know how fucked up things are, we can also have a rough idea about the effort required to get … Read more
The mainstream approach towards opportunity is that it’s a very rare event, and it should be prioritized when it happens, maximizing any potential outcomes. While I wholeheartedly agree with “maximizing any potential outcomes” I do think there are a few thoughts worth pondering on the first part of the definition. What Is Opportunity? Very briefly … Read more
