Adventure Capitalist

Since I started this blog in October/November last year, I’ve struggled somewhat to find a voice, a core theme - I’ve written mostly about things that have interested me, but they have been all over the place at times.

It’s been a slow process, but I think in a sense I have come full circle and worked out what I want this to be going forward:
This blog will not be about any one or a few particular subject alone, but will instead be focused around the core theme of the intersection between financial/entrepreneurial opportunity, personal freedom and becoming the best person you can be.

In a sense, the pursuit of financial opportunity, personal freedom and becoming the best man I can possibly be embody my core motivators and passions, so focusing my writing on the areas of intersection between these three is a natural evolution and in a sense coming full circle with a more clear purpose.

Financial & Entrepreneurial Opportunity
At heart, I’m an opportunity and ideas guy. My late grandmother never tired of pointing out that when I was four years old, while all the other kids wanted to be policemen and astronauts, I wanted to be an inventor and businessman. By age six I was designing my own imaginary space rockets, and by age nine I was an accomplished door-to-door salesman, running around the little town I was living in selling magazines and other trinkets, making a pretty penny for someone who was only a little boy.
As an adult, the same things still energize me: opportunities and ideas are what makes my heart pump faster and what turns my head.

Personal Freedom: the Emergence of the Post Political Man
My first ever blog was a swedish blog about politics, which at its height probably was among the top 20 or so political blogs in Sweden. It was often an outlet for me, allowing me to rant and vent my anger at the political system as it stands.
My political values are largely the same (though evolved); I am principled believer in freedom stemming out of the principle of non-aggression.
This means freedom in its truest sense: social freedom to live life the way you want as long as you do not hurt anyone regardless of what your chosen lifestyle and habits are, political freedom to express whatever opinions you have, however abhorable I may find them, as long as you do not incite violence against others, and economic freedom sell your labour, knowledge and creations in whichever way you chose without undue restrictions or taxation.
You may disagree with me, and that’s ok, but I won’t apologise for my convictions, nor my drive to live as freely as I possibly can.
In terms of this blog, my political values won’t manifest themselves in terms of ranty rages against the machine/system, I long since gave up on changing the political system, besides, local political systems are becoming less and less relevant:
In an increasingly globalised world, Nation States are becoming more or less irrelevant and people are becoming more free to chose the circumstances under which they want to live - I would call the concept “The era of post political freedom”, or being a “post political man”. There is no need to try to change a system which may take decades to just nudge in another direction, if you can simply hop on a plane and move to a system that is more compatible with your values, or even better, pick and chose by pitting competing systems against each other to your personal benefit.

Being the Best You Can Be: Fulfilling Your Potential
Personally, I don’t strive for happiness alone, though a fair amount of happiness is desirable in ones life. But just singular pursuit of happiness is not enough to fulfill the innate potential we all carry to be extraordinary. Pursuit of happiness alone could in some cases even degenerate some people into instinctual animals concerned with nothing more than alcohol fuelled orgies and excess.
Like most other people, I am a flawed person with more than a few hang-ups and faults. Some I have come to accept, others I try to get rid off. But at the same time, I feel it is my duty as a civilised and rational human being to be the best man I can be. This means finding a balance between happiness, mental discipline, enlightenment and physical excellence, wrapped in an existence of maximum self-awareness.
To me, every person who is not trying to improve themselves, at least fulfilling some of the promise that every person holds is a human tragedy. Being the best we can be is something we all owe ourselves, if no one else.

Some of these values and subjects have probably already shone through in my writing, some of it may not.
This blog won’t be about finance, entrepreneurship, politics, nor self-improvement though those subjects may be touched upon. This blog will be focused around the intersection of opportunity, being the best you you can be and shaping the life you want for yourself outside of the limiting confines of national party politics and social convention. This will be more of a theme, concept and idea than fixed set of subjects - call it the mission statement of this blog if you will.

These are the things I believe in, the things I value, the values that define who I am.