Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
What’s really, really hard, is to train to do extraordinary things. It’s the time you spend learning, the energy you put in training, the opportunities you skip by being on your own path, the joy you take away by not engaging in simple, normal, daily life, the mental fight with the comfort pull, all that … Read more
Today I finished the Lisbon Marathon. It was my first official race of this length since the Covid clusterfuck unfolded (just for clarity, when I’m referring to this as a “clusterfuck”, I’m referring to the way it’s handled, and how the powers in charge are piggybacking this black swan event to tighten control and restrict … 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