How Psychology Impacts Who’s President I am putting my overpriced degree to work here by writing about one of the few lessons I’ve taken away from it. That lesson was the importance of personality. Personality is often used incorrectly such as “my personality makes me love attention; is someone who needs everything perfect; is “science-minded”; […]
Tag: Immigration
What’s Your Threshold?
Everybody Needs to Decide Their Line in the Sand As the saying goes, it’s better to be a year too early than a day too late, which is especially relevant when it comes to leaving a place heading in an authoritarian direction. I’m motivated to write this after long discussions with my friends about relocating […]
This Beautiful, Safe Country called
An Overlooked Hideout There are threads and threads on Twitter and various forums discussing this main question: Where does one go [for freedom, normalcy, to escape the madness]? You can imagine that this question has gotten considerably more attention over the last few years when governments decided to turn their countries into prison systems just […]
An Interesting Option for Latinos & Latinas
If you hate waiting in lines as much as I do and you are looking to create a Plan B living/travel option for yourself, perhaps this is for you. Upon my travels throughout Jalisco, Mexico I’ve noticed on several occasions the extreme lines to simply apply for a tourist visa for entry to the US. […]
Tax Changes in Armenia
Armenia has made some tax changes to their successful micro-entrepreneur and turnover tax regimes. Prior to the changes, companies (under certain business types) could pay zero tax if their revenue did not exceed approximately 60,000 USD per year. Similarly, a turnover tax regime allowed the business over to elect to shorten their tax bill from […]
The Largest Disaster on Earth
Shocking Numbers from Africa This is data is taken from the 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance–the most thorough, intensive research report I’ve seen on the continent. I’m in the process of breaking down some important results (by overall governance trends and then it’s individual categories) that I strongly encourage you to check out by […]
Serbia
OnTheBall Travels (Serbia) It’s an old place, covered in graffiti and it’s falling apart–but I like it Serbia… always something going on. We travelled here for over a week by bus from Hungary. Serbia has become an interesting place to get a flavour of Europe without spending your entire savings account. Read about our Hungary […]
