work from defunct Selina cowork (renamed to some other chain) and it's sad to see it's all empty, all DNs are gone and it's so silent. It's 2026 and the Digital Nomad is no more #life

book room at Selina (now called something else) as a replacement for our Airbnb that smells like mold everywhere and where the water pipes have pressure issues so it’s hard to even shower #life

wake up in middle of nowhere in Costa Rica and realize we slept like shit because the wind was too strong due to a cold climatic event in Central America #life

wake up and prepare for checkout for a new city in Costa Rica to continue the road trip! #life

go sport a bit in morning #life

receive spam on WhatsApp now #life

work on ETF strategy and find out in FR tax environment it's better to mix Dist and Acc. Dist will allow a steady income even when markets are bad, but are immediately taxed in FR (30%), then Acc allows withdrawing something like 4% annually (especially when markets go well). My new formula is simple: - 40% of total ETF portfolio go to Dist, 60% to Acc. - Dist funds life necessary life expense, while Acc funds lifestyle or expensive purchases. That's the best balance for me between simplicity and tax efficiency for FR #life

schedule to sell all my SP500 holdings tomorrow because 1. its over-exposed to AI and it's a bubble, 2. SP500 is over-valued by 120% to 200% as per analysts, 3. US is going geopolitically crazy recently so starting to lose confidence — will re-balance it to an Asia-Pacific Acc ETF tomorrow + All-World ETF to dump on the AI bubble growth and now spread the risk to preserve those fat gains #life

take some slow time to wake up and walk outside and drink coffee 1h after wake up to avoid immediately irradiating my eyes with laptop screen as other days, and it feels better #life

switch ChatGPT subscription for Mistral to see how it goes, so far very satisfied it’s totally on par #life

uninstall X from phone because it became too addictive due to recent changes (can’t hide images) and I spend more time doomscrolling now, and it’s not possible to use unofficial client app anymore so —> 🚮 my phone is only messaging apps and maps now, which is the purpose of a phone after all. means I don’t use my phone much during the day except for smart stuff like searching knowledge or chatting with friends #life

come back home in Costa Rica and descend a steep downhill with the car, then breaking started being less effective at slowing the car. A burnt smell entered the inside of the car, we managed to stop, and one of the brake was smoking like its burning!!! Managed to get back home safely after waiting for them to cool down and drive at 5kph downhill with micro braking, will need to go check at a garage soon cause this ain’t safe #life

schedule wire to personal bank of money from sale of a stock picking that worked (+40%), cause I’m cash poor and I need money #life

buy some more gold to bring gold assets to 10% of my total assets since times get more uncertain now #life

drink less coffee today and actually feel less burnt, maybe the cause of being tired was building caffeine dependence after all #life

disable auto-audio level feature on AirPods cause very annoying when a car passes far away on the road my AirPods suddently start blasting in my ears even w/o ANC on - in my experience, the dumber AirPods are, the better they are #life

lose power again as the whole village tripped, power on 5G router on big battery for backup internet and be glad I charged all batteries today when power got back in the morning #life

experience a first earthquake since in Costa Rica, and realize I am 60km away from an active volcano #life

nuke all social media from phone (Instagram + X) cause I realized it's been 3 days I started doomscrolling and it never happened to me before, maybe since X forced the loading of images in my timeline which I disabled but they removed the option from the app, need to fix the addiction before it starts so I wont be using any social media anymore #life

gain back grid electricity and thus charge up all batteries to be able to last the day if it falls down again #life