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This is what I am doing now. Updated July 26:

Financial Escape Velocity kept for the third straight month. New record.
The Cayenne off-road conversion is done for now with (too big) BF Goodrich All-Terrains in 285/60 on Braid custom painted black WinRace T wheels. I'll present it soon. I will call it Brutus.
I think I want to visit Isle of Man TT in 2027. I want to experience this while it lasts.
Tested the BeOn GPSchool. A kart track race weapon that was way abocve my paygrade. What a bike
As I'm more and more back into motorcycling, I created a new section: Moto.
Got a new classic car. A 2007 Cayenne S a 957 model. Checked it at Julià911 and it's an excellent unit. Now time to improve it slowly and convert it into a: a trackday transport vehicle and a weekend offroader.
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)

Reached Financial Escape Velocity again. How long will it last?
My Ducati Hypermotard is on sale. Buy it. I need money for other toys ;-)
I tried a track day at a karting circuit with a pitbike. And I loved it: it's fun, it's physical, it's adrenalinic, it's flow, it's challenging, it's energetic. Now I can't stop thinking about which bike to buy.
Finished my bi-annual bloodwork and physical tests with very good results which made me reflect on why.
I’ve started publishing short and long essays regularly. For now, I publish every Sunday at 6:30 pm on LinkedIn. As an introvert, this is slightly uncomfortable, which is part of the point. Writing in public forces clarity. Some pieces start as blog posts here and are adapted for LinkedIn. Others are written directly as LinkedIn Articles or as shorter posts to test ideas. I’m considering migrating part of this writing to X Articles, depending on how the process evolves.
On a new (classic) car project, very related to the return to track riding.
Slowly planning my return to track riding. Moto.
Never dreamed sponsoring a ProTour cycling team participating in Tour de France and it happened.
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.
Thinking about closing one of my business.
Thinking about my mission: Exploring how to design a life of high performance, independence, and longevity — without losing intensity or curiosity — in the second half of life.
At AMS, we are starting our first Pro Tour team sponsorhip.
Worried, worried, worried: I can’t shake the feeling that something big is about to break. Maybe in the economy, maybe in culture, maybe in me. It's raining, so maybe I'm just melancholic. Anyway, I had to write.
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.
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.
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