Thermal battery

Hi Vivi, Polar night energy is a company with a solution to storage energy in sand. This is the same principle of thermal mass in earthships but in a different application. Here is an interview with the team from Finland who developed the idea. I like the idea a lot, you can create a small community off-grid with this solution making it cheaper to build. Je t’aime, Papá

March 15, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

The daily stoic - Ryan Holiday

Hi Vivi, This book is small dosis of philosophy to for self improvement. I love the format of having a daily title, a historic quote with a reflection. Today’s title is “Self deception is our enemy” and talks about how if you belive that you already know about a subject you can’t learn. Buddhists say that you can’t fill a cup that is already full. Just different ways to say the samething....

March 14, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

Fade - Kanye West

Hi Vivi, Kanye is one of the artist that is able to suprise me. So let’s start this saga of his music with Fade, from the Life of Pablo. This song was released when I was living in the highlands of Scotland, and I would play this song in repeat, while up on a scaffold doing woodworking repears on the side of a boat. Everytime I hear it now it makes me want to dance....

March 13, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

The Silicon Valley Bank collapsed

Hi Vivi, Last friday the 16th largest bank in the US collapsed, and I’ve been thinking a lot about it. I love tech, and this is the most tech related bank. It’s affecting crypto projects and startups. I know that companies will adapt, but the ripple effects will last a few years, and it will affect the technology that will come out. Je t’aime, Papá

March 12, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

I wrote to Gary

Hi Vivi, By writing about Gary the other day, yesterday I sent him an email, almost two years since last time we were together. My message was of thankfulness and asking news about you. Let’s see what happens, without expectations. Je t’aime, Papá

March 11, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

In Bruges (2008)

Hi Vivi, This movie is an excelent dark comedy, it touches dark human subjects in a unique way, and for me is a great example on how to use silence correctly. Life has a way of bring extra meaning to things, in this case is the trip I did with Lau to see possible places to move in, Bruges was one of the cities and we only were there for one day, and it became this beautiful place that looks like it came of a fairy tail....

March 10, 2023 · 1 min · Papá

How I helped Gary making money

Hi Vivi, When I went to USA one of the things I was forced to do is to sell my investment in Ethereum, at the time I had 70 Eth and they were worth something around 22.000$, your mom didn’t understand what I got but also it meant I had financial independence so she made me sell it and invest it in a Bobba Grans, a business that she entirely owned, that was about selling the vanilla your grand father sold....

March 9, 2023 · 2 min · Papá