Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
All that can be made into personal development, from thoughts to hardware, from coaching to meditation.
I mean, it’s ok to enjoy, but claiming too much personal contribution to any project, or goal, isn’t very accurate. Yet, we have this tendency to brag, even ingenuously, about the things we did, about our accomplishments, about our successes. I call this tendency “post success bias”. It’s like after everything actually worked out, we … Read more
One of the first challenges I did when I started this blog, more than 15 years ago, was waking up early. Like drastically changing my routine so I am up and running at 5AM every day. Back then I was having a really hectic lifestyle, mostly related to the fact that I was the “hustling … Read more
Which means there should be a plan in the first place. Of course, we can also use other approaches when we’re stuck, like improvising. As surprising as it may seem, this is not contradicting the planning approach, it just means improvising is part of the plan. Having a plan doesn’t always mean slicing the big … Read more
Science is an interesting human development. It works like this: I make some educated guesses about how the world works, draw a theory on top of them, by connecting some dots, then run a series of experiments to verify, or invalidate, the above theory. What’s interesting is that even my theory is invalidated, the method … Read more
Probably you don’t know this story. Here it is, very briefly (for more details, there’s always the Wikipedia link). Pelorus Jack was a dolphin who lived at the beginning of the last century, in New Zealand (well, on the waters surrounding some parts of New Zealand, actually). He became famous because he escorted ships through … Read more
… I finished my first marathon. On October 7 2012, beaten and bruised, still overweight, I was crawling towards the finish line of what eventually became the start of my new life. I finished 42km for the first time ever, just a month before my 42nd anniversary, in 5 hours and 20 minutes. Looking back, … Read more
The first image that comes to my mind when I’m thinking about overheating is an engine. An engine in a car, to be more precise. And to be even more precise than that, it’s a Dacia 1310 engine, in a an actual Dacia 1310, a blue ciel one. That was my first car ever. It … Read more
It is indeed almost November (well, at least 4 weeks until then) but that’s not what I’m referring to with the title. That’s how my first song is called, Almost November. I know it’s way too audacious to call it a song, but I did spend a few hours yesterday searching for the best course … Read more
