Bogotá feels like a city that is coming out of its shell and embracing its own identity. The Bogotá I came to know in 2019 is one that is full of energy – energy of activist students, rebellious street artists, ambitious real estate developers, hustling “comerciantes”, and everyone else in the 10 million-strong and growing … More Bogotá in 2020: What to do, eat, drink
This year has been unlike any other in my life. KC and I successfully opened our first gastronomic establishment, a dream years in the making; I became a parent to a perfect dog; I travelled less than in any other year of my life and probably watched less TV and movies than ever before; two of … More Year in Review 2019: The Birth of Mesa Salvaje
I try to live my life so that I will have no regrets. I have followed a non-conventional path since leaving MGS, first by spending a gap year working in a professional setting, then by choosing to study at a relatively small undergraduate business school in The Bronx, and then by choosing to leave a … More It is all about the people, stoopid
I hate running on a treadmill. I consider myself a runner, having completed 6 half marathons and 1 full, and derive an immense amount of pleasure from running a 10K through the streets of Bogota, New York, or whichever place I happen to find myself in for more than a couple of days. For me, … More Avoiding the Treadmill
There is a longer post to come in the future on “how I opened a coffee shop in Colombia”, but for now I wanted to share a few early thoughts I’ve had:
As I have thought about the main ideas I wanted to reflect upon this year, I kept returning to a phrase I had used when Tom Moss asked me how things were going, shortly after he arrived in Bogota last month: Lighter in wallet, lighter in weight, but most importantly, lighter in heart and mind. … More A Year in Review 2018: Feeling Lighter in Life
I was recently listening to What Alex Danco Thinks About Basically Everything , a long, rambling but incredibly insightful podcast with Alex Danco, a member of the Social Capital Discover team and author of the fantastic Snippets weekly newsletter. Somewhere in the middle of the podcast Alex inadvertently articulated my exact investing philosophy in a way … More My Investing Framework: Rethinking Risk and Betting on Different Perspectives of the Future
While I was walking home tonight I was listening to a podcast episode as my subconscious was reliving and contemplating upon the lessons of the conversation I had earlier today with a successful bar/restaurant owner in Bogota. The episode, from a highly recommended podcast called Invest Like The Best, was a fascinating interview with a man called Boyd … More When was the last time you felt truly alive?
I’m writing this from a lovely coffeeshop in Rabat, Morocco, but I wanted to reflect on the wonderful few days I just spent in Andalusia, Spain. KC and I arrived in Sevilla (via BlaBlaCar from Madrid) during the hottest days ever recorded in Spain, with temperatures reaching 48 celsius / 119 farenheit. Fortunately the Andalusian … More Food for Thought: Andalusian Cuisine
Disclosure – I own Tesla stock and am very optimistic about the Company’s future Scenario One —BMW/Mercedes but with better long term margins Overview: Tesla is unsuccessful at disrupting the entire auto-industry, instead scaling to become a mid-sized luxury auto maker, similar to BMW group, by 2022 (eg. ~1 million vehicles per year, up from ~100,000 … More My Tesla Thesis
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