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 …
Back in Mexico City
As the title states, I arrived back in Mexico City after a few weeks in Utah, and another month in Puerto Rico. Because I don’t tweet, use Facebook, and post perhaps twice a year on Instagram, I realized my updates are more sporadic, and large gaps in my travels are obscured now. Why am I …
Mexico to Utah
I concluded my (first) trip to Mexico City last Sunday, arriving here in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah staying at my friend Ari’s childhood home. Even after two months I felt a bit of sadness in leaving CDMX; I was missing out on major items on my list of things that I wanted …
CDMX and Routines Update
I’ve been in Mexico City for a little over a month now, but it feels much longer. The city sparks an insatiable curiosity to understand and explore it, but it feels impossible to grasp it all, a similar feeling I had in New York City when I had summer internships in my youth. I never …
In Mexico City
I’m going to start this post with my thoughts from 1.5 weeks ago when I started my pre-trip blog, but never finished it: “I’m unbelievably excited and ready to go to Mexico City. I leave this coming Friday, and I’m staying until June 1 at a minimum. I would say for the majority of trips …
Studying (a little) Spanish
In an ironic twist, I often fantasize about spending my days writing, yet I have a hard time doing this blog on a regular basis. That often helps abate my fomo and gets me back to my main objectives for the year. I’m still focused on my health and building up my trading operation, even …
Back to Isabela
It’s been a good few weeks here in Puerto Rico. I finally built enough confidence in my stock trading algorithms; confident that they will run automated and make essentially no mistakes, and confident that they will earn expected value. The markets have coincidentally been behaving oddly since I got things running, but I made money …
Work, Work, Work (plus some fun)
Welcome back everyone, I’m finishing my procrastination for the weekend and getting to my blog now. My Sunday morning today was like the past 7 days, grinding away on different trading ideas I have, but fortunately my girlfriend suggested we go paddle-boarding in the lagoon near us, and I spent some time in the ocean …
Busy Weeks of Research
It feels good to get a blog post out after the past two weeks. Imagine you’re at the airport in Detroit, Michigan, and your final destination is a small town in New Zealand. You have multiple connections, several days of traveling, and the necessity of dealing with Covid regulations in every country that you enter …
Andrew Manser 