Author: Rommel Castro

  • Second-Order Thinking

    It’s very easy to take bad decisions, thankfully there are mental models that can teach us how to think and how to take better decisions. Second-order thinking is a mental model that helps us find the long term consequences of our decisions and thus help us make better decisions leaving the immediate gratification behind. It’s…

  • you can only be an optimist in the long run if you’re pessimistic enough to survive the short run. https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/save-like-a-pessimist-invest-like-an-optimist/

  • Your expectations grow slower than your income. It’s the only way you’ll feel wealthy regardless of how much money you have. Taken from https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/alternative-forms-of-wealth/

  • If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Someone at work shared this quote today, and wanted to share it here for myself, as a reminder that is OK to fail and it’s actually a great thing. Make sure you’re having new failures in your life and learn from them, and then follow new…

  • I still have many zeros

    0 it’s where massive amount of creativity comes from, when you have nothing to lose and everything to win. This is probably that biggest motivation I have in my life. Being someone who comes from zero-zero and now I have accomplish some things in my life, but still have many zeroz, still many things to…

  • Opened FB for a few days and this is what I learned

    I been learning to appreciate more and more my time, as part of this I decided back in January to deactivate my FB account, and remove FB and IG apps on my phone. During the last seven months I opened FB only when I had a purpose to use it. I reactivated my account few…

  • Let’s dance

    One of the things that I miss in these days is being allowed to go to a club or bar and dance. So today I want to share with you one of my favorite mixes to dance

  • I wonder how many brilliant men will never know just how brilliant they are YouTube Comment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89eycANUrQ)

  • Am I really an imposter?

    No. I’m not. And probably you have asked yourself the same question many times and don’t feel bad about that, I gotta tell you a secret, I have asked myself this question so many times and not only when I’m awake but also when I’m dreaming. Take a look at your past, remember all the…

  • Sell the winners? Sell the losers?

    One of the first questions you have when you begin investing on stocks is: When should I sell? and there’s not right or wrong answer to this question, it always depends, but lets about the two main reasons why peoples sells their stocks: – Sell when the stock’s price is high (a winner) But why…