Tomorrow I’m flying to Rome, and then driving a few hours north to Umbria. I’m excited to meet up with Johanna in Rome first (she’s been in Sweden the past few weeks), and then we’re staying with my friends Andrea, his wife Dasha, and some friends of theirs in the countryside. I haven’t been to …
Cabo
My birthday celebrations continued in Los Cabos as my friend Jeff planned a trip for our friends. I’m not big on celebrating my birthday, so having essentially a week-long celebration was a little weird, but I’m grateful to be able to use it as an excuse to hang out with friends. As I get older …
Turning 40
Last Friday was my birthday, and it was a big one numerically. I considered not wanting to reveal my new age in the title out of a sense of sounding old for the first time. Age, the significance of a new decade, etc. are all constructs and arbitrary, but it’s hard to shake random beliefs …
A Month of Work
I’ve been on yet another extended hiatus from my blog. Today (Sunday) and yesterday are the first days I haven’t worked until exhaustion on my latest trading project in the past month. Fortunately I’m coming down from the manic work phase, and have only a moderate amount this week left to do. I hate being …
May
Thanks to one of my new fans (M) I got some peer pressure to write this today. It’s been a quiet week with lots of introspection. Johanna went to Sweden to see her friends and family, and my friend/quasi-roommate Ari went to LA. I’m in one of the largest cities in the world, so I …
Spring
As usual, it’s been far too long. It feels good to publish some words again. I’m in Mexico City at the moment still, and life has been good here. The weather has been perfect for months, I’ve been having friends perpetually visit, and I managed to finish up my latest batch of trading projects. This …
San Miguel de Allende
It feels like summer just began here in Mexico City. We had a few warm patches in the last few months, and to be fair the weather was incredible for “winter”, but we seemingly have sunny 75-80 degree days for the indefinite future (the average daily high from March-July is around 78 F, but it …
Happy New Year
Hello everyone, it has been a while. I hope you all have had a beautiful transition into this new year. I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but I coincidentally have a strong desire to improve my life. I got Covid at the beginning of December. I had a strong fever and exhaustion for just a …
October Update
I’m sitting outside at a very tranquil cafe in Mexico City, Efimero Cafe, one of my favorite little spots here. There’s plenty of bigger, trendier, fancier, cafes with coffee on par in the neighborhood, but there’s some intangibles here (perhaps the fact that the inside is so small it forces me to be outside on …
Settling Into Mexico City
I’m starting to get a routine going here in CDMX which is relieving. Left to figure out if I should wake up/eat/work/etc everyday usually results in me sliding into progressively worse habits. It’s fine for me to deviate from a solid routine, but without any rules or structure I was having a hard time for …
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