I'm sitting in a cafe called Don Ruiz in beautiful Old San Juan that makes me feel like I'm in a Spanish military barracks. As usual the temperature is a sunny 80 degrees, and every day beyond Monday gets me confused with Friday. With Easter this weekend there's an even more relaxed vibe than normal …
Moving into Puerto Rico
Tonight will mark my second week here in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is also the first day at my new apartment as I was finally able to move into it once the power was fixed (asterisk on this one because the building has power, but there is some minor glitch at the moment being …
Good Week + Short Story
So many times I've made strong resolutions to break them within days, hell even hours sometimes. I can't imagine how many times I've promised myself a month of clean eating after an ice cream binge, only to order a pizza that evening. The best outcome I've realized is to make positive progress in the direction …
Traveling
I’m currently sipping on some citrusy Ethiopian espresso in Bangkok. I’ve been doing a bit of traveling since I last blogged. After several months of morning to evening machine learning/math/computer science studying holed up either on my couch or an office in Palo Alto I needed a change of scenery. I did visit …
Wedding In Santa Barbara
I’m pretty good at following up right after blogging about posting weekly on here missing the next week. I did have a reasonable for me excuse though: I spent 1.5 weeks writing a speech for my friends’ wedding in Santa Barbara that I delivered this past weekend. I have a love/distaste relationship with …
ALLOW ME TO REINTRODUCE MYSELF
I regularly blogged at this address from May 2013 to September 2016 which became one of the more fulfilling projects that I’ve done in my life. Initially I was terrified at the vulnerability, but for some reason I felt compelled to continue to write in public. Perhaps because no one knew it existed for a …
Andrew Manser 