2025 was a consequential year. A year which I may well look back on in 5-10 years as “the beginning of the next chapter of my life”. A year with the highest of highs, a spectacular wedding that exceeded my greatest expectations, but also with professional challenges that have forced me to question whether I’m … More Year in Review 2025: Married and Committed
Something ironic and seemingly paradoxical is happening in the world of capital investment. Just as money got expensive, with interest rates at their highest levels in 15 years, funds and companies are pouring unprecedented sums into massive infrastructure projects. Trillion-dollar investments in AI infrastructure. New chip factories. EV gigafactories. Energy infrastructure buildouts. VCs backing capital-intensive … More Do Higher Rates Actually Drive Progress?
2024 was a year of execution and hard work. It wasn’t as euphoric as 2023, but that is a good thing. It was a year of “reality”, the likes of which I hope to live many more. It all feels very, very real now – this chapter has become my new reality. I love my … More Year in Review 2024: My New Reality
2023 was a very good year. The likes of which I haven’t lived for a good while, at least since I moved to Colombia in 2018. There are 2 trajectory altering highlights to 2023, and many small moments I hope to cherish for years to come. If fighting for and then accepting a job at … More Year in Review 2023: A New Beginning
The known unknown of 2023 has been resolved. The question of what I intend to do next with my life has an answer. I have begun to work at Somos Internet as their Head of Finance in Medellin. I love how life works. A conversation with an ex-JPM coworker, a zoom chat with a CEO, … More Somos
We have reached the end of the beginning. Or the beginning of the end. This year, multiple factors have led me to believe that my time in Colombia is likely coming to an end, and the next chapter may be about to start. At the end of 2021 I gave myself a year to live … More Year in Review 2022: Time for a Change
A hefty dose of magical realism has been applied to the Bogota food scene in the past twelve months, as an explosion of fine dining restaurants and a massive influx of venture capital to food tech companies seems to defy the grim reality of the local and global macroeconomic backdrop facing Colombian restaurant owners. Recently the … More Magical Realism in the Bogota Gastronomic Scene
Seven weeks of travel in the past ten weeks spread across three trips to the UK & France, within Colombia, and 9 days in New York, has left lasting impressions on the current differences in outlook and sentiment in the world today. The hot button issue everywhere is the rising cost of living, but each place … More A world in contrast: Colombia, the UK, & the US
This tweet is funny because it’s true. My old neighborhood of Williamsburg, the now-gentrified, formerly hipster neighborhood in Brooklyn is today the unofficial capital of Web3, and represents a caricature of all the memes (good and bad) about crypto and Web3. But I don’t think it’s funny because it’s ridiculous; quite the opposite, I think … More The Pizza Paraiso NFT Collection 2022, and why Small Businesses <3 NFTs
I do many things well, but few things excellently. In so many aspects of my life I feel like I get 90% of the way to achieving something great, but struggle to get to 100%. Fortunately, in other people’s minds my 90% looks great – succeeding at Fordham, at JPMorgan, and now with Mesa Salvaje/Pizza … More Am I a writer?
Ross Rambles 