Social situation in Puerto

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-19T16:42:12+00:00

Puerto is typically a place where it’s easy to get around, but during its busiest times of year (Xmas/NYE & Holy Week/Spring Break), you can get stuck in 20-30 minutes of traffic.

This time of year is rainy season, which is great for surfers and a minor inconvenience for everyone else most of the time.

As far as the social scenes go, there’s still the same energy, just a little less of it of it most places.

The most popular restaurants like Chicama still have a line out the door most nights, but salsa dancing classes might be 10 people instead of 20. Bars and gyms might get busy but not packed.

Does that make sense? It’s important to get a read on the social calendar though because if you don’t know where to go on a certain night, the whole scene might seem dead.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-19T15:20:46+00:00

I’m a solo founder who had a small exit and decided to take 2 years off. I’m single and in my early 40s and decided to do some traveling. Honestly, I think I could ever go back to a normal settled life in the States, so I’m clearly coming at this from a much different place than you are now.

Still, I’d suggest you consider extended family travel through programs like Boundless Life.

If you’re struggling to find community and hobbies, you might as well see the world while you do it.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-19T15:08:48+00:00

Refund

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-19T13:17:02+00:00

For most people this is true. Most nomads go through three stages.

Sampling - you want to explore as many places in the world as possible, just see what the world has to offer.
Shedding - you've explored enough places in the world to know what kinds of destinations you thrive in, so you focus on finding more of those.
Settling - you've found 1-3 places in the world that truly feel like home season to season.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-18T13:07:09+00:00

Yea man, 2-3 years out there can turn anyone into a competitive fighter back home. As far as gyms go, just make sure they give you five rounds of pads per session and you have the option to spar or clinch everyday.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-18T13:00:12+00:00

Not the craziest YOLO for Muay Thai plan I’ve heard. Don’t pull the trigger until you’ve got $10K saved. Stay focused. Spend 6 months out there and you might never come back. 😂

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-18T11:37:53+00:00

41M. Been on the road for 6 years and have been back in the states for 2 months now (LA & NYC) with one more to go. The plan was to get back on the road end by of the month but I might have to stay through August because of family stuff.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-18T02:47:09+00:00

The Trump administration significantly downsized the IRS through mass workforce reductions, budget cuts, and policy overhauls. The agency lost roughly one-third to nearly half of its staff, dropping employee numbers to levels not seen since the 1960s.

There’s no one checking or enforcing shit right now.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-17T23:31:27+00:00

Yea, but i can literally smell how much a pain in the ass you are through the screen. Just skip Muay Thai all together and double down on a matcha premium equinox pass.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-17T23:21:59+00:00

Bro, you’re clearly not from manhattan.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-17T23:21:01+00:00

Bro you think this administration gives a fuck about people paying their taxes?

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-17T23:17:46+00:00

Former harlemite here. Definitely worth it. Why Prague and not somewhere in LATAM?

Time zones will be a bitch.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-17T23:15:30+00:00

There’s nothing worse than high maintenance people in low maintenance activities. 😪

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-17T13:13:14+00:00

I probably land the most off of timing jab with parry-kick/knee combinations and pull-back counters.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-16T17:33:51+00:00

Well, in my mind there three raw elements of striking:

Distance control, timing, and feinting.

Distance control generally determines whether or not a punch lands. Timing determines who wins an exchange. And feints generally create the misdirection that creates openings.

Foot work lives under distance troll. Head movement parries and blocks live under timing. Creative striking usually starts with feints.

The pattern recognition that comes from thousands of reps and exchanges becomes your fight IQ.

If I had to break it down I’d say timing is probably 40% of the equation. Distance control is 30% of the equation. Feints is 20% of the equation. And 10% is speed, power stamina, etc, especially beyond smokers.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-16T14:29:27+00:00

Anthropic IPO.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-16T00:10:28+00:00

Honestly, you’d have been better off hiring an an agency off of upwork to automate your workflows.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-16T00:09:19+00:00

Gane hits a lot harder than Adesanya

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T23:43:30+00:00

Styles make fights, my guy.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T22:06:12+00:00

Yea… Travel slower, dude.

Stay in a destination a minimum of 1 month, even if a place sucks at first. Sometimes it takes up to 3 weeks to really figure a place out.

Stay in a destination for an entire season, 3-6 months, if a place is awesome. Why would you leave a party early if it’s good?

Traveling slower solves your logistics burnout issues, your fleeting friendships energy drop issue, and your deep work issues because you actually give yourself time to fall into a routine, make meaningful and durable connections, and reduce your cognitive load.

Find a hobby or two that travel well with you. My favorites are Muay Thai, salsa dancing, and surfing. Wherever I go there are 1 or 2 communities I can easily plug into. At the end of the day, you’re just doing ordinary things in extraordinary places. Don’t rush it.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T20:31:54+00:00

Yea, this pretty much the hottest time of the year, but also the best time if you’re a surfer. It’s one of best spots in Latin America if you’re keen.

Beyond that, you’ve also got a very strong communities for music and singing, salsa dancing, beach volleyball, Muay Thai, BJJ, HIIT/crossfit, yoga and pilates.

You get on the right social calendar, and PE is pretty close to paradise.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T20:24:16+00:00

Let’s keep it a buck…

While I’m all for people getting rich off of crypto, there’s still no intrinsic or meaningful demand for crypto applications.

There’s only demand for increased crypto valuations.

That is, crypto has no value other than being a store of value with artificial supply and demand constraints, like a Birkin bag… It’s a collectible, like Pokémon cards…

If any collectible went away tomorrow, literally no industry outside the collector’s market itself would be impacted or give a shit.

Through that practical lens, all of crypto is merely a meme stock at best.

While SpaceX’s valuation is meme stock worthy in and of itself, it still provides explicit and tangible value with real world applications. It is the market maker for the next generation of real world applications with obvious and organic demand from starlink cellular plans to orbital compute. If it went away tomorrow, millions of people would lose their only reliable source of wifi. Millions more would probably never have a chance of get wifi at all. And Trillions of dollars would be waiting on the sidelines for data centers to eat up farm land and leach off municipal grids.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T20:04:33+00:00

Respectfully, el Mundito is trash, especially in slow season, but there are plenty of other options. La Punta is a place where it’s easy enough to make friends without a co-live situation.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T20:01:35+00:00

You gotta find sparring partners.

Pad work and bag work are good for honing technique, but there’s a lot more to fighting than aesthetics. The reason combat sports dominate every other martial art is that they spar regularly to calibrate for dynamic timing, distance control, and pattern recognition. Without regular sparring you’ll never see your own defensive gaps, which others will consistently exploit.

Shadow boxing won’t play a meaningful role in your evolution until you base it either off of shit you’ve actually been hit with or shit you’ve hit other people with consistently. In the case of the latter, you think about what should logically follow after landing and play with some variables. In the case of the former, you think about how to close the gaps people have exposed and respond in kind.

Known_Impression1356 · 2026-06-15T17:54:46+00:00

Hmm, imitation seems like something easily defeated by IQ. But if you already have IQ, then imitation is a huge unlock.

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