Happy Easter everyone! All 10 of you that read this. As it’s Easter and I’m getting a late start on this, I'm going to keep it brief this week. Mostly the past week I kept my head down and did programming related to research for my trading hobby/career. One thing I realized was that …
Reading and Getting Things Done
Two Sundays in a row writing this blog, I'm going to give myself a pat on the back. The recent theme in general for me has been about doing the things I want/wish/know to do. I read a book this week, “One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way” by Robert Maurer that …
Some San Juan Recommendations
It’s Sunday evening here in San Juan with the sun just starting to dip. I got a little kick in the butt to do this blog today (thank you Mom) instead of pushing it into the week where there is never an obvious time to blog. I’m sporting a tiny sunburn from strolling by …
Back to San Juan
I got back to Puerto Rico a few days ago, after my longest flying journey to date. I started at 4:30 am on Monday (Puerto Rico time) and landed at 9 am Wednesday. I did get a room and spend a day in Taipei with my 21-hour layover there, but other than that it was …
Being Sick in Bali
I’m back to blogging after a pretty bad run of getting sick here in Bali. After writing about having a mild fear of getting Dengue Fever I’m pretty sure I got it. I didn’t go to the hospital and get it diagnosed because it didn’t seem like there was anything to do besides rest and …
Week 2 Bali
Just over 1.5 weeks here in Bali and still enjoying it. I’ve learned a lot here already in Bali. Drink more electrolyte water when it’s really hot out, especially when your stomach gets messed up (“Bali Belly”). You have to be pretty aggressive on a motorbike, or even just walking, if you want to …
First Impressions Bali
After 30-40 something hours (4 connecting flights!) of travel, I landed into Bali a few nights ago. Perhaps because of all of the flying my body lost track of what time it thinks it should be, and I don't have jet lag going to bed/waking up like I’ve been living 12 hours ahead of time …
Pre Travel Week
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 …
Andrew Manser 