This is what I am doing now. Updated November 24:
Feeling the squeeze of endless taxes—direct, indirect, and hidden—draining more without adding any real value to my life. The weight of a growing bureaucracy, but no improvement where it counts.
Reached Financial Escape Velocity—a massive milestone in my life. But, like with most goals, the moment you reach them, you realise happiness wasn’t waiting there. It feels like just another tick on the to do list. Better enjoy the process, not the outcome.
About to lose another another investment in full?
Looking for a doctor in the Sant Cugat, or Barcelona area who is up to date on longevity trends or at least on preventive and not reactive medicine. Someone I can email and/or video call as well as visit. Know about anyone?
Reading:
Books I'm currently reading. Usually more than one at a time.
Listening:
I consume tons of hours of podcasts. Favourite podcasts in no particular order:
The Tim Ferriss Show by the one and only Tim Ferriss
Lex Fridman Podcast
All-in with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg. Ditching it.
Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair
The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish
Naval by the master himself
Akimbo by Seth Godin
Exponential Wisdom by Peter Diamandis
Moonshots and Mindsets by Peter Diamandis
Noah Kagan Presents
Huberman Lab
Paddock Pass Podcast
Motley Fool Money
Dr. Borja Bandera
El podcast de Indexa Capital
Radio Fitness Revolucionario
The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier
Raoul Pal: Real Vision
Podcasts episodes that I saved to re-listen often:
Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins and Crypto Strategy. The Tim Ferriss Show
Happiness. Naval
The Ultimate Macro Framework with Raoul Pal. The "What is Money?" Show
Investing Wisely in an Uncertain World w/Howard Marks. We Study Billionaires
Investor Psychology & Trading on the Future With Raoul Pal. Where it Happens
William Green with Guy Spier: Investing Prudently in Perilous Times. The Education of a Value Investor
RWH026: Wealth & Health w/ Jason Karp. We Study Billionaires - The TIP Network
Hang out:
You can find me on X mostly learning (and sometimes writing) about investing, branding, marketing, books, longevity or MotoGP.
You can also find me on Instagram posting mostly about gravel, Porsche, SUP surfing (when waves in flatcelona), books, business, investing, or health.
My professional life is on Linkedin.
I'm trying to write more and more and you can read my stories on Medium. I usually write trying to summarise interesting things, knowledge or books which helps me to better understand them (a simplified Feynman learning technique) and to practice english, which is not my native language, as I enjoy (and consider myself good) product and ad copy. By the way, I recommend joining Medium as a great source of knowledge.
Books (and podcasts) are my main knowledge source. You can follow what I read, what I'm reading and what's in my to read list on Goodreads. For 2022 I have a target to read (books) a minimum of 20 minutes daily.
Exercise wise I mostly do cycling, gravel cycling, and when the Gods dare to send some waves to Barcelona, SUP surfing. To keep me in shape I occasionally practice yoga, walks and hikes. You can follow my activities on Strava. For 2024 I have a target of 6600 Km of cycling, 100 hours of wave sessions and an average of 75 minutes of exercise per day.
Always learning investing by managing my own portfolio of stocks, crypto, indexed low cost funds, pension funds, some start-ups, a little bit of real state, starting with sport classic cars and even flipping sneakers.
Want to contact me? Better do it by email.
Some things I am no longer doing: (aka what is removed from the first list on this page)
Learning about the e/acc movement and its related movement of transhumanism.
Verbalizing my "believe system": I believe, without dogmatism, on capitalism, financial freedom, life extension, bitcoin and that technology solves (mostly) everything.
I've been playing catch up on my 2024 target of 6600 Km cycling since I started the year with low mileage mainly because of the back pain issue. I'm about to catch up with a good 800 Km during August. I'm hooked again into cycling and for the very first time I'm tempted on a road bike.
Learning about microdosing.
I always struggled to truly, truly understand how money works and how it is created. 99% of what you hear or read is false or uninformed. On this podcast (sorry only in Spanish), Daniel Baeza explains it cristal clear.
Enjoying the August life: daily workouts, reading and intense job work in the mornings, and free time for family and home improvements in the afternoon.
Enjoying and loving Japan 🇯🇵. It's weird that I feel an attraction to Japan since I was very young yet I waited until almost 50 to visit the country. If I have to escape from Spain, this looks like a good fit to me.
Trying to stop teaching by saying but by leading: https://x.com/carles337/status/1797999136966398214
Officially hooked in a new hobby: moto flat track with 140cc bikes. Super fun, exhausting and reduced risk of injury.
Entering the mood of long term investing: sitting on my hands most of the time.
Thinking about parenting in "easy times" while creating "tough times".
Discovered a supplement that its working wonders for my eye tiredness: astaxanthin. A powerful antioxidant
I'm starting to like more and more income generating assets. Am I getting old? ... yes!
I think I've almost beating back pain for now. I tried so many things that I'm not sure what is doing it. Maybe everything. Maybe it was just the time. Anyway, I'll keep doing core exercises at least 3 times a week, foundation training at least 3 times a week and glute stretching daily.
I'm learning Japanese using Duolingo. From 5 to 15 minutes every-single-day. Non stop. I'm on a 250+ day streak.
When I was a kid I always dreamed with Porsches and Wranglers. I already experience the Porsche thing, now I want to experience the Wrangler thing, but while learning I'm also startig to love Defenders and Cayenne off-roas preparations. Always cars from 2002-2012.
My son beat me at arm wrestling (for real) for the first time. He was excited. Me ... not that much. At least I keep winning him with the left arm. The sign of times.
Buying motocross gear for the first time in my life. At 48. But it's not for motocross. It's for flat track.
Finally parted ways with the best ass in class 🥲
Still looking for a final solution for my low back pain that is troubling me since the end of November.
For the first time in 19 years I'm excited again about motorycling. No street use. No road racing as in the past, no enduro, no supermotard. Guess what?
Still suffering from back pain 🤕. It's been a long time since last days of November. I've found some relief, but not cure. I still can't do a proper bike ride.
Yes, my beloved classic Porsche 996 4S is on sale.
My son has been bitten by the motorcycle bug. He's becoming 16 this yeat and wants a motorcycle which brought me into the rabbit hole showing him my motorcyling past both as passion and profession, and watch what we found: a video of me presenting to the press the Derbi DRD 125 which development I led.
Focused on solving my backpain and reflecting on the last year and on which life areas I need to improve the more.
Now that I'm pretty sure by Porsche 996 4S will be gone soon, I'm already missing it. How can I be that idiot? Nah, screw it.
Updated my Life Lessons with a quote from Rick Rubin that I robbed from Morgan Housel: "It’s hard to get really depressed until your dreams come true. Once your dreams come true and you realize you feel the same way you did before then you get a feeling of hopelessness"
Worried about safe investing. It no longer exists. The classic 60/40 seems dead. Today you can get "something" out of short duration monetary funds, but what will happen when rates start to decline again?. Back to bonds? Bonds now are killing me.
Trying to reduce my information intake and increase my knowledge intake. How am I doing it? Being more selective about what I read and listen and going deeper on good content by investigating more, making summaries and writing.
Free is over. I'm paying more and more for online services. Now I'm paying for Medium Premium.
Updated my Life Lessons.
Enjoying probably one of the best vacations of my life. Totally unexpected and with almost no planning. Awesome days in Galicia with awesome food, beautiful beaches and lovely Hotels.
Added two sections to the site: Blog where I'll write about everything not present in Investing, Health&Longevity or Books and Photography with some photos on the blockchain.
Summed up the book "What I Learned About Investing from Darwin" by Pulak Prasad. Another gem of a book about high qulity and long term investing.
Updating my Investing section.
Summed up the book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” by Donald Miller in 10 takeaways.
Going down the rabbit hole of learning techniques, meditation, HRV training a being present.
Starting to write about what I learn regarding Health & Longevity and documenting it on a new section of the website.
Updated my "Life Lessons".
Summed up the book "Altered Traits" by David Goleman and Richard Davidson about the study of the effects of meditation on mind and body and their enduring effects if you practice it correctly and consistently.
All medical results were super positive after the trombosis scare I had late March. I'm able to return back to normal life, but trying to reduce and control my stress levels and trying not to be the best at everything at the same time.
Remember my line about Investing smart money (aka: pay and work, where is the smart part?) and being part of the founding team in something new in my Work section?. I did not liked some behaviours of my partners and decided to get out. Never partner with someone you don't trust!!!
Updating the Books page. Like it more now?
The Empordà and Costa Brava are probably between the best places in the World. I happen to live an hour and half drive from there. I'm rethinking about buying a small place there and rent it as an ABNB. Both as an investment and to spend more time there.
Summed up the book "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" by Peter L. Bernstein.
One of my business Meta accounts was hacked and recovering it was nightmare. Not to mention than even after recovering it, the Ads are still not functioning properly 2 months after. I wrote about the process and lessons.
Discovering that other people like Jason Karp had similar physical scares like mine caused bu trying to over-achieve for the sake of over-achieving.
Getting back into meditation because of this 👇
On March 30th I had the scare of my life. I suddenly started to see big grey spots on my right eye. After several tests they discovered a thrombosis was generating it. And the cause? stress. After the big scare they are trying to find anything else causing it, so l'm carrying out a battery of tests. Take care out there. Don't chase things for the sake of chasing. We only have one life.
Thinking about creating a blog, because I'm not liking Medium lately.
Money is a religion. It's a faith and it looks like more and more people are understanding this. As soon as 5% of the population knows it, the system can break in a question of days. Pretty scary.
Creatine Monohydrate acted as was announced and I gained about 2Kg. Theoretically it should be water, bu my VitaDock+ scale measures it as an increase in fat. Is it the scale problem, or that I'm eating more?
Opting out of an investment which reporting and professionalism was not as I'd like. Never invest in something that makes your gut unhappy.
Wrote a couple of articles on my Medium, one about classic sports cars and classic Porsches in particular and the other one on Hormesis versus Super-optimization for overall health and well being.
Back to cycling with a proper +140Km week.
Back to SUP surfing with three back to back sessions which were from horrible to great (but cold). Let's make SUP surfing cool again.
My father passed away on February 3rd. It's sad but it was the best outcome possible. For him and for the family as a whole.
Almost a year ago I started taking Collagen with peptides after a bike ride or after a intense exercise. Both for a health and cosmetic objective. After being investigating about supplements for a long time I'm starting with Whey Protein (only after a long or intense bike ride or exercise) and Creatine Monohydrate daily. Meanwhile I'll keep investigating about Metformin, Resveratrol, NMN and Berberine.
Not feeling that positive about 2023 🙃
Feeling very positive about 2023.
Enjoyed a spring break in Malaga. Great city. Much more attractive, clean and safe than Barcelona and a serious contender to Cadiz for areas where I want to spend more time in the near future.
Finished reading Life Force by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis. Think of it as a summary of all breakthrough technologies and techniques in Health
Hard times at the family. My father was diagnosed with "hours of life expectancy" but he's still there. Holding to live. Which to be brutally honest I'm far from sure is the best thing for him and for the family. It's hard to say but staying alive is not living. Merely lying on bed with most cognitive capacities capped is not living. Hard for him. Hard for my mother. Hard for the whole family.
After years of not doing anything like that, I just finished an online course on compounding by the one and only Jack Butcher
Struggling with the winter dark times. I hate the short days and the cold mornings.
Struggling with the lower demand on both of my brands.
Read and summarized "The Education of a Value Investor" by Guy Spier
Losing money in the markets (in crypto, in stocks, in index funds and even in bonds)
Read The birth of brand, by Brian Smith, the founder of UGG boots. I never imagined being interested in the UGG brands until I listened to a Noah Kagan podcast with Brian. I instantly loved the story and wanted to dive deeper in the brand foundation and grow.
Organising my first social gravel ride sponsored by AMS and Ravet Bike.
Read, and summarized "$100M Offers" by Alex Homozi.
Updated my life lessons with something I heard on a Noah Kagan podast with Kinko's founder Paul Orfalea, Lot's of life and business wisdom on this pod. Hugely recommended.
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