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Personal development, financial resilience and meaningful relationships - all this while coding or rambling about technology

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Health and Fitness Productivity and Effectiveness
#365 challenge, #habits

Healthy And Unhealthy Routines

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Not all routines serve you. Some become prisons. Healthy routines create freedom through structure. Unhealthy ones trap you in automated suffering

dust on furniture
Blogging
#365 challenge, #monday moving forward, #series, #side projects

Monday Moving Forward – Pick (And Revive) An Old Project

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Old abandoned projects contain half-finished value. Monday revival resurrects dormant momentum. Sometimes returning beats starting from scratch

rome
Crypto Financial Resilience
#365 challenge, #bitcoin, #cryptocurrency, #financial freedom, #money

Why Programmable Money In A Slow Delegating Society Is A Bad Idea

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Programmable money automates financial rules. But society delegates decisions slowly and badly. The mismatch between speed and wisdom creates danger

blogging
Blogging
#365 challenge, #checkpoint, #consistency

365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Seven

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Seven months of daily publishing. The discipline became identity. Missing a day now feels like skipping breathing—writing is infrastructure

loyalty card
Blogging Location Independence
#365 challenge, #coffee shop work, #money mindset

Thinking Outside Of The Loyalty Card

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Loyalty programs train predictable behavior. Real advantage comes from thinking outside the rewards system they design to contain you

flattening the curve
Financial Resilience
#365 challenge, #financial habits, #investing, #money mindset

Flattening The Curve

Last updated: December 2, 2025

COVID taught us curve flattening. The concept applies everywhere—spread intensity over time to avoid system collapse. Patience prevents breaking points

learning to rest
Blogging
#365 challenge, #endurance, #energy, #ultra-marathon

Learning To Rest

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Rest is a skill most never learn. Active recovery differs from collapse. True rest requires deliberate practice and permission to stop producing

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Meaningful Relationships
#365 challenge, #communication, #learning

Know What You’re Talking About

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Confident ignorance spreads faster than careful knowledge. Before speaking with authority, verify you actually understand the subject deeply

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Blogging Productivity and Effectiveness
#365 challenge, #focus, #monday moving forward, #series

Monday Moving Forward – Filtering Out The Noise

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Mondays amplify noise—everyone wants your attention. Filter ruthlessly before the week drowns you. Signal emerges only when noise dies

floating a boat
Financial Resilience Meaningful Relationships
#365 challenge, #debt, #financial freedom, #financial habits, #income, #money

You Can’t Sail A Toy Boat On A Pierced Bucket

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Fix the leaks before optimizing the sails. Financial holes drain faster than earnings fill. Plug the bucket first, then build the boat

causality cycle
Financial Resilience Meaningful Relationships
#365 challenge, #assess, #coffee shop work, #decision making, #financial freedom

Do Electric Scooters Grow On The Streets?

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Scooters appeared overnight in every city. The sharing economy creates abundance illusions—someone owns them, someone profits, nothing is free

frugality
Financial Resilience
#365 challenge, #debt, #financial freedom, #financial habits, #frugality, #money

Frugality And Financial Resilience

Last updated: January 7, 2026

Frugality builds resilience by widening the gap between income and expenses. The buffer absorbs shocks that break those living at their edge

the obstacle is not the bottleneck
Financial Resilience Meaningful Relationships
#365 challenge, #financial freedom, #money mindset, #resilience, #stoicism

The Obstacle Is Not The Bottleneck

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Obstacles block paths temporarily. Bottlenecks restrict flow permanently. Solving obstacles while ignoring bottlenecks wastes energy on symptoms

thinking outside of the jar
Meaningful Relationships
#365 challenge, #social media

Thinking Outside Of The Jar

Last updated: December 3, 2025

We live inside invisible jars of assumptions. Thinking outside requires recognizing the jar exists first—most never see the glass containing them

fill in the gaps
Blogging Productivity and Effectiveness
#365 challenge, #consistency, #taking action

Filling In The Gaps

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Brains fill gaps automatically with assumptions. Incomplete information triggers pattern completion—often wrong. Awareness of gap-filling prevents false certainty

clarkson farm review
Blogging Movie Reviews
#365 challenge, #entrepreneurship, #movies

Clarkson’s Farm – A Review

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Jeremy Clarkson farming revealed agriculture's brutal economics. Entertainment met reality—farming looks romantic until you run the numbers

building up positions
Financial Resilience
#365 challenge, #consistency, #financial freedom, #money mindset, #wealth

Opportunities And Building Up

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Opportunities compound when you build consistently. Each completed project creates platform for the next. Building up beats starting over repeatedly

modern tribes
Meaningful Relationships
#365 challenge, #communication, #conflict, #relationships, #social media

We’re Still A Tribalist World, It Just Got Easier To Pick Our Tribe

Last updated: December 3, 2025

If you look at all the technological advance of the last hundreds of years, you'd say that humanity evolved a lot. We have instant communication all [...]

words
Blogging
#365 challenge, #coffee shop work, #portugal

Words We Don’t Use Anymore

Last updated: December 3, 2025

Language evolves through deletion. Words disappear when concepts become obsolete or unspeakable. What we stop saying reveals cultural shifts

location independence necessity
Location Independence
#365 challenge, #digital nomad, #financial freedom, #remote work

Location Independence Is Not A Luxury Anymore

Last updated: December 2, 2025

Location independence shifted from luxury to survival skill. Governments lock down, economies collapse, borders close. Mobility means optionality means security

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