Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
Clean up your desk. Re-arrange furniture. Add some color to that space. Make the place where you work really enjoyable. So enjoyable that work there won’t be perceived as work anymore. It will be something you actually crave to do. I love to change my work space every now and then. Because I consider that … Read more
Be your own boss. Work your own hours. I know, it sounds so shallow, for you, who hate your job but still have to stay there because of that mortgage. Well, unless you make the first step, nothing is going to change. That’s for sure. When I started my own business, I did it mainly … Read more
How would you feel, as a business owner, to have repeat clients for more than a decade? What makes a business sustainable? What makes you buy the same service over and over again, from the same provider? Not month after month, but year after year after year? Let me tell you a story… 15 Years … Read more
Launching a new business is always exciting, wether you’re starting it because you want it, or because you’re compelled to. I’ll come back later to this (apparently strange) dichotomy. For now, let’s take it one step at a time: many of my blog readers know that I started a new business. This time is a real … Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote about disruption, and how to embrace it. The context was related to my sudden involvement in a new business (doubled by a drastic change in lifestyle, but that’s another story). The new business, a co-working space in Bucharest, called Connect Hub, is up and running now, and although it’s … Read more
It’s been a while since I wrote a book review here. It’s not as much because I didn’t read much lately, as it’s because I didn’t write on the blog much lately. As you may already know, I’ve been quite busy with a business called Open Connect. But now, that the storm relaxed a bit, it’s … Read more
In the last article I described the process of creating an online community – namely the one around the Open Connect event. As of today, I started an experiment in monetizing this community. I’m going to share the entire process here. I don’t yet know if this experiment is going to be successful or not, … Read more
What follows is a rather detailed breakdown of one of my most rewarding experiences as a digital nomad: namely, creating a real life community behind the Open Connect concept. If you want to know how to transform a personal, enriching experience, into a social experiment, if you love working from coffee shops or if you … Read more
