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This is what I am doing now. Updated April 25:

The Obstacle is most probably the way.
Entering the restaurant business as an investor was definitely my worst investment decision of all time.
Updated my Life Lessons.
Bought a second moto. A Ducati Hypermotard 950 RVE. Yes, kind of a hooligan bike. Let's see how it goes. Age crisis hitting hard.
OMG, I'm into a bad financial pothole. Completely lost sight of Financial Escape Velocity. New moto arriving and markets crashing thanks to Trump's tariffs. Which by the way I think will end up with the lower international tariffs worldwide the World have ever seen.
Will ride 3 Nacions road event in June with my lifetime friend Jaume from Andorra. I have no road bike and have no plan and having one, but I will need one to participate and to train at least 2 months before the event.
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:
- The Tim Ferriss Show by the one and only Tim Ferriss
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Huberman Lab
- The Knowledge Project by Shane Parrish
- Radio Fitness Revolucionario
- Dr. Borja Bandera
- Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
- We Study Billionaires
- Inversión Racional
- El podcast de Indexa Capital
- 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)

A lot into trail/rally moto. Do I upgrade the CRF 300 Rally? Or do I keep it as it is saving for the KTM or the BMW?. Possible upgrades would be: a) exhaust+filter+ECU ($$$); b) navigation system ($$$). Both suming more than half the cost of the full motorcycle.
Losing money (paper loses) at the market.
Keep losing and regaining and losing again Financial Escape Velocity for the past few months. Quite a rollercoaster. Or a horse hard to tame because of the sharp increase in the cost of life in general and in my family in particular.
Thinking about buying a second motorcycle. A road one. A Ducati. My age crisis is hitting hard.
Regained Financial Escape Velocity again during January. I think it will be a rollercoaster over the next months.
Re-learning about motorcycle suspensions and geometry. The bike I bought was a little but unbalanced. The previous owner thought it was because of the change of the rear shock, but after a lot of investigations and number crunching it wasn't the case. It was because the change of the rear tyre. A change from 120/80-18 to a 120/90-18 means an increase of 12mm on the rear axis, which is a loooot. Make sure you don't do stupid changes on setup without knowing what you're doing.
My first podcast appearance was at the VisibilidadOn podcast.
Started a Private Equity position through Crescenta.
Not much 2025 planning and forecastings, just increasing my target Read, PushUps, Exercise and Steps goals. And writing to myself for January 2nd 2026 asking if I improved my loving, smiling, socializing, exercising, reading and if I exited a business I want to exit from.
Finally bought a second hand Honda CRF 300 Rally with Ohlins suspensions which I will get in the following days. I'll keep an eye on the coming KTM 390 Adventure R and BMW F450 GS.
Deciding between a CFMoto 450 MT, KTM Adventure R 2025 or BMW F450GS. These are the 3 finalists. The BMW has no info on release date and I want the bike as soon as possible, so it's now between de CFMoto and KTM.
Received about 74% back from my second angel investment made 10 years ago. It's my best performance as all the others went to zero.
Managing to get way more free time. Part optimisation, part maturity, part slow business.
Reached Financial Escape Velocity—a massive milestone in my life. But, like with most goals, the moment you reach them, you realise happiness wasn’t waiting there. It feels like just another tick on the to do list. Better enjoy the process, not the outcome.
About to lose another another investment in full?
Looking to buy a motorcycle. The only ones that give me goosebumps are the R's (those Ducati Panigales or R1's are 😍), but they're 100% useless out of the racetrack. Then started with scramblers (dailys with a touch of personality), but they lack the fun factor, then trail bikes, but they're too heavy. Now I'm searching light trail bikes (CF Moto 450 MT, KTM 390 Adventure R mainly).
Feeling the squeeze of endless taxes—direct, indirect, and hidden—draining more without adding any real value to my life. The weight of a growing bureaucracy, but no improvement where it counts.
Learning about the e/acc movement and its related movement of transhumanism.
Verbalizing my "believe system": I believe, without dogmatism, on capitalism, financial freedom, life extension, bitcoin and that technology solves (mostly) everything.
I've been playing catch up on my 2024 target of 6600 Km cycling since I started the year with low mileage mainly because of the back pain issue. I'm about to catch up with a good 800 Km during August. I'm hooked again into cycling and for the very first time I'm tempted on a road bike.
Learning about microdosing.
I always struggled to truly, truly understand how money works and how it is created. 99% of what you hear or read is false or uninformed. On this podcast (sorry only in Spanish), Daniel Baeza explains it cristal clear.
Enjoying the August life: daily workouts, reading and intense job work in the mornings, and free time for family and home improvements in the afternoon.
Enjoying and loving Japan 🇯🇵. It's weird that I feel an attraction to Japan since I was very young yet I waited until almost 50 to visit the country. If I have to escape from Spain, this looks like a good fit to me.
Trying to stop teaching by saying but by leading: https://x.com/carles337/status/1797999136966398214
Officially hooked in a new hobby: moto flat track with 140cc bikes. Super fun, exhausting and reduced risk of injury.
Entering the mood of long term investing: sitting on my hands most of the time.
Thinking about parenting in "easy times" while creating "tough times".
Discovered a supplement that its working wonders for my eye tiredness: astaxanthin. A powerful antioxidant
I'm starting to like more and more income generating assets. Am I getting old? ... yes!
I think I've almost beating back pain for now. I tried so many things that I'm not sure what is doing it. Maybe everything. Maybe it was just the time. Anyway, I'll keep doing core exercises at least 3 times a week, foundation training at least 3 times a week and glute stretching daily.
I'm learning Japanese using Duolingo. From 5 to 15 minutes every-single-day. Non stop. I'm on a 250+ day streak.
When I was a kid I always dreamed with Porsches and Wranglers. I already experience the Porsche thing, now I want to experience the Wrangler thing, but while learning I'm also startig to love Defenders and Cayenne off-roas preparations. Always cars from 2002-2012.
My son beat me at arm wrestling (for real) for the first time. He was excited. Me ... not that much. At least I keep winning him with the left arm. The sign of times.
Buying motocross gear for the first time in my life. At 48. But it's not for motocross. It's for flat track.
Finally parted ways with the best ass in class 🥲
Still looking for a final solution for my low back pain that is troubling me since the end of November.
For the first time in 19 years I'm excited again about motorycling. No street use. No road racing as in the past, no enduro, no supermotard. Guess what?
Still suffering from back pain 🤕. It's been a long time since last days of November. I've found some relief, but not cure. I still can't do a proper bike ride.
Yes, my beloved classic Porsche 996 4S is on sale.
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