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Paraguay Residency 📜 My Experience & Impressions of Asuncion 🧉 Oct'24
A low-hanging fruit residency; the first step in international diversification and starting my slow divorce with Australia 🦘 Documenting the process.
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September'24 Portfolio/Life Update 💹 $575k (⬆️$65k) - Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina & Chile Next Month ✈️ & The First Green Numbers in 3…
The portfolio has come off life-support, finally 📈 A quick tour of The Southern Cone in October 🌎 Australia's slow decline 🪃 Tall Poppy Syndrome 🌱
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September 2024

August'24 Portfolio/Life Update 💹 $510k (-$75k) - Market Shits The Bed (again) 💩 Costa del Pacifico 🌴 Routine Mexico City Life 🌯…
1 Week on the tropical Pacific Coast of Mexico; Back to CDMX & into routine again: Paraguayan trip booked; Pondering formation of a Panamanian Corp & a…
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August 2024

July'24 Networth/Life Update📉$585k (-$19k) - Uranium hammered ☢️ Guadalajara 🌮 & more internationalisation planning 🧐
Brutal two months in the markets! Uranium equities continue to get pulverised; Exploring Guadalajara; Topped up offshore positions & a consultation call…
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July 2024

June '24 Networth/Life Update📉$604k (-$75k) - Portfolio Tanking🫣Climbed a 6,000m Peak 🗻 Went to Cusco 🦙 Flew Back to Mexico 🌮 Adopted a…
Portfolio tanked this month! Time to go back to the rig in Australia? 👀 📉 I climbed a (big) mountain in The Andes 🏔️ Visited Cusco ⛪ flew back to…
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June 2024

How I Invest 💸 Part 2
Discovering Asymmetrical, Contrarian Investing ('inflection investing') ☢️ Energy Stocks 🛢️ Investing for Maximum Freedom & Flexibility in my 30's 🆓 …
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May '24 Networth/Life Update📉$679k (+13k) - Hiking La Cordillera Blancas/Huaywash en Northern Peru🦙(how we failed..😵) & Recouping in…
55k bounce in the portfolio this month before a big pullback in ☢️, trekking in the Peruvian Andes while getting sick as a dog 🤢 & chilling out in…
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May 2024

How My Investing Philosophy Evolved Over The Last Decade 📖 Part 1
Debt-free with >550k AUD in stocks at age 33, from $0 at 26 (not 'rich' but 'free'); Going against what society tells you financially in Australia, …
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Israel, Hummus & Krav Maga
Some brief & (relatively) unbiased thoughts from a quick visit to Israel in mid-2023, before it all kicked off 💥✡️
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April '24 Networth & Life Update📉$666k
Sharing these updates to stay accountable, prove that you don't need to follow societal norms to be financially 'successful', & to share where I am at…
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April 2024

Back to Bali 🌴
A few thoughts after returning to my old pre-pandemic 'home' for about six weeks in mid 2023 - The Land of Lovely Lefts 🌊
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