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This is what I am doing now. Updated December 25:

Struggling to find the time for boredom that is more necessary than ever.
A little bit stressed with today's World. I'm feeling like things are getting more difficult instead of easier. Probably we're messing up with technology until technology fixes us.
Today, out of the blue, I understood the disconnect between the families economy and the macro economy. We're in a stealth recession.
My mum fell and broke her hip. At 89 years old this is bad news. It will be difficult time ahead.
I have the results of my latest bloodwork and physical tests and the results are ... the best of my life. I wrote a blog post about them and the process I follow.
About to close the biggest investment mistake of my life. When you think you can't do worst, I made it, tripling my previous "I'll never do this again" mistake. This time was wrong partners — a project marked by disorder, broken promises, and hidden traps. Trusting blindly led me to sign guarantees for a company I wasn’t trusting, a costly mistake that turned ruinous. It’s an expensive lesson learned: never again without full documentation, and never again with people who don’t live up to their words.
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:
- Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
- We Study Billionaires
- Inversión Racional
- The Tim Ferriss Show by the one and only Tim Ferriss
- Radio Fitness Revolucionario
- Dr. Borja Bandera
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Huberman Lab
- The Capital Cycle Podcast
- Founders
- Gipsy Tales
- Invest Like the Best
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- The Memo by Howard Marks
- Oxley Bom MotoGP podcast
- Perform
- The Proof
- Raoul Pal
- Tengo un Plan
- ...
Podcasts episodes that I saved to re-listen often:
- How to Get Rich: Every Episode. Naval
- 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

Work:

Managing and operating RSPro.org.
Product and marketing at AMS.bike

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)

Gnar Country, even if not the book I enjoyed the most, made top of mind again, how should I prioritise hobbies that challenge me, that keep me feel alive and that allow me to enter the flow.
Taiwan is a great country: great people, great food. I just need to try to experience its outdoors next time.
Added to my life lessons: "The only you is you. Be that — and you’ll never have competitors, only imitators".
Nice summer holidays: World's Best Place (aka Costa Brava), Austria and a rural week in Galicia. Each with a working week in between.
Worked o my life lessons. Reduced them from 72 to 70. I probably need to reduce one more for nicer number ;-).
Costa Brava ... Costa Brava is the best place in the World. Prove me wrong.
Health is expensive. Especially if you care about going beyond just “not being sick.”. I take supplements, I invest in high-quality food, and I’ve learned that staying healthy is not cheap. The government takes a big cut in taxes to support a public health system I rarely use—and that frankly doesn’t work well. So I also pay for private health. And on top of that, if you want holistic care, biohacking, or high-performance wellness… it’s a whole new layer of costs.
I learned the hard way that investing too much money, trusting the wrong people, ignoring red flags, co-signing despite doubts, and joining a business I didn’t understand with the wrong partners is a recipe for failure. I failed. Hope I can extract lifelong lessons to compensate for this big mistake.
This IG post made my day. Two 70+ gentlemen, fully suited, still enjoying their Ducati Superbikes. Never too late to the party.
Never ceases to amaze me how projects always take way more time than predicted. No matter your experience.
The Obstacle is most probably the way.
Planning holidays and contemplating a return to Japan.
Well, well, well. Entering May 2025. The month I become 50!!!
Updated my Life Lessons.
Bought a second moto. A Ducati Hypermotard 950 RVE. Yes, kind of a hooligan bike. Let's see how it goes. Age crisis hitting hard.
Will ride 3 Nacions road event in June with my lifetime friend Jaume from Andorra. I have no road bike and have no plan and having one, but I will need one to participate and to train at least 2 months before the event.
OMG, I'm into a bad financial pothole. Completely lost sight of Financial Escape Velocity. New moto arriving and markets crashing thanks to Trump's tariffs. Which by the way I think will end up with the lower international tariffs worldwide the World have ever seen.
A lot into trail/rally moto. Do I upgrade the CRF 300 Rally? Or do I keep it as it is saving for the KTM or the BMW?. Possible upgrades would be: a) exhaust+filter+ECU ($$$); b) navigation system ($$$). Both suming more than half the cost of the full motorcycle.
Losing money (paper loses) at the market.
Keep losing and regaining and losing again Financial Escape Velocity for the past few months. Quite a rollercoaster. Or a horse hard to tame because of the sharp increase in the cost of life in general and in my family in particular.
Thinking about buying a second motorcycle. A road one. A Ducati. My age crisis is hitting hard.
Regained Financial Escape Velocity again during January. I think it will be a rollercoaster over the next months.
Re-learning about motorcycle suspensions and geometry. The bike I bought was a little but unbalanced. The previous owner thought it was because of the change of the rear shock, but after a lot of investigations and number crunching it wasn't the case. It was because the change of the rear tyre. A change from 120/80-18 to a 120/90-18 means an increase of 12mm on the rear axis, which is a loooot. Make sure you don't do stupid changes on setup without knowing what you're doing.
My first podcast appearance was at the VisibilidadOn podcast.
Started a Private Equity position through Crescenta.
Not much 2025 planning and forecastings, just increasing my target Read, PushUps, Exercise and Steps goals. And writing to myself for January 2nd 2026 asking if I improved my loving, smiling, socializing, exercising, reading and if I exited a business I want to exit from.
Finally bought a second hand Honda CRF 300 Rally with Ohlins suspensions which I will get in the following days. I'll keep an eye on the coming KTM 390 Adventure R and BMW F450 GS.
Deciding between a CFMoto 450 MT, KTM Adventure R 2025 or BMW F450GS. These are the 3 finalists. The BMW has no info on release date and I want the bike as soon as possible, so it's now between de CFMoto and KTM.
Received about 74% back from my second angel investment made 10 years ago. It's my best performance as all the others went to zero.
Managing to get way more free time. Part optimisation, part maturity, part slow business.
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 to buy a motorcycle. The only ones that give me goosebumps are the R's (those Ducati Panigales or R1's are 😍), but they're 100% useless out of the racetrack. Then started with scramblers (dailys with a touch of personality), but they lack the fun factor, then trail bikes, but they're too heavy. Now I'm searching light trail bikes (CF Moto 450 MT, KTM 390 Adventure R mainly).
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.
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.
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