Within a few moments of landing I was clicking my heels and thinking, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. Unlike in The Wizard of Oz I wasn’t transported home. You have to go through the adventure first before that trick works.

At present in many societies we have an epidemic of loneliness and associated depression. We think we are more connected than ever, but that is just a digital illusion.

Here is how to fight back!

“Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.”

-Hippocrates

If only I'd listened to my ancestors a little earlier, I'd have saved myself a lot of trouble. I write this post to save YOU that same trouble.

My school was something like Hogwarts, minus the magic and girls. For the most part I didn’t get involved in the various activities the school offered, but the snow camp was one thing I couldn’t avoid.

If you had asked me R U OK? I would have had to say, not really. One year later I reflect on the critical lesson I learnt from this rough patch.

What I learnt from inheriting a villa in Tuscany.

I have trouble sleeping once in a while, don’t you? Whether it’s getting to sleep, staying asleep without waking up at 3:40am, or waking up too early. So what gives?

Here is the surprising answer.

I gathered everything and like confetti at a wedding threw it high up into the air. All the anchors that were holding me down were no longer there.

In Japan as a foreigner, there’s not much chance of fitting in. The best you can do is not stand out too much. That’s OK though, I don’t mind enjoying Japan as an outsider.

An update from me and a new technique that I learnt for letting go of the things that weigh us down.

I know what I wrote last time resonated with a lot of people, but I missed something important. I need to set the record straight.

Is life about enjoying the journey or reaching a destination? I think this hack allows you to do both at the same time.

You don’t have to go far from the tourist hubs to see a very different aspect of the city. I took a walk recently into some of the hidden corners of Sukhumvit.

There’s two ways to learn things in life. The first is through trial and error. Each time you make a mistake ideally you learn something and then you can improve the next time. Second, and the way to save yourself a lot of time, is to learn from others. Since I started to focus on investing I’ve done a lot of both. What follows are some of the principles I’ve learnt.

144 minutes a day. 75 hours a month. 5.1 years of your life.

Social media - The problem and how to fix it.

We set goals and resolutions because we think that when we get there our lives will be better. But is that true?

Every place seems to be more laid back in Chiang Mai. In coffee shops people sit quietly, working on their laptop or reading a book. In Bangkok there always seems to be a business meeting, or a life and death phone call happening wherever you go. Then what do you do? You’ve already paid your 100 baht for the drink. All you can do is glare at them and hope they shut up, which they never do.

I think for many of us our minds have become like an out of control AI, that starts to cannibalise the whole system. The mind was only ever supposed to be a tool that you can use. Not a tool that uses you to reinforce it’s own self importance. The end result of this perversion of the natural hierarchy is suffering. That much I know.

The first question I get when I tell someone I work as an investor is, “what do you think of bitcoin”? The second is, “which stocks should I buy”, or “how do I invest in the stock market”?

I’ll answer those questions in this post.

I’ve met some great people lately in Bangkok. In meeting them I’ve realised something about life circumstances in general and particularly about people: good is the enemy of great.