I’m back after a little unplanned blogging hiatus. I had started posts, but got bogged down trying to write things that were “helpful and good”, and decided to go back to my previous format of a minimal weekly update interspersed with random things in my head. The past few weeks have been a great …
Cities
One of my favorite bloggers/essayists is Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator (a startup incubator that funded Dropbox, Airbnb, etc.). A lot of the posts are about startups and programming, but some are just about life in general, and the latter are my personal favorites. One that I really liked from 11 years ago is …
Meditation Class and Weekly Update
I finally stopped avoiding financial reality, and booked my trips to Costa Rica (3 days to visit friends) and Bali (5 weeks). The flight back from Bali will be something I’ve never experienced before… a 50+ hour travel experience. There is a 21 hour layover in Taipei, followed by a 7 hour layover in New …
Travel Plans
I’m sipping a latte in shorts and a t-shirt, watching the rain drizzle in an open-air cafe like a proper digital nomad. The digital nomad world is kind of like hipsters; I am firmly entrenched in many aspects of the lifestyle, but I strongly don’t identify with it. Exploring the world while working and having …
Happy Holidays
Happy New Year here from Puerto Rico! It’s been a bit rainy, but I’m still in shorts and able to get to the beach once a week. I often lose perspective of the good qualities of wherever I’m living, but it’s easy to be appreciative being able to lay on the beach in January. …
Life Design
I’m currently at Boundless Mezcal Cafe in Cartagena (cold brew plus their empty upstairs area is a great working combo), on the last day of my trip in Colombia. I started out in Barranquilla, Colombia, which sadly I would not recommend, and abandoned a hotel room that still had 4 more days paid for. It …
Normal Stuff
It’s weird how much of our lives are on autopilot routines, and when we make a lasting change, we wonder why we didn’t do that before? I’m really trying to autopilot more of my life lately, with less decisions. I stopped doing superior workouts (functional bodybuilding via Marcus Filly) that I paid a lot …
