Thoughts on leaving Somos: Compounding in a Chaotic Life
After three and a half years building Somos Internet, I've left the company — and why stepping off the rocket ship is the best way to keep compounding a chaotic, high-agency career.
Ross Rambles
You can never have too much Garlick — writing on finance, infrastructure, food, and life.
Latest posts
Vibecoding Coliseo in 4 Days: How I Built a Live Startup-Ranking Game with Claude Code & Codex
Year in Review 2025: Married and Committed
The Venezuela Opportunity
Co-written with Packy McCormick for Not Boring: why Venezuela's potential as an economic hub for the Western Hemisphere is a far greater prize than its oil.
Do Higher Rates Actually Drive Progress?
Year in Review 2024: My New Reality
Year in Review 2023: A New Beginning
Somos
Year in Review 2022: Time for a Change
Magical Realism in the Bogota Gastronomic Scene
A world in contrast: Colombia, the UK, & the US
The Pizza Paraiso NFT Collection 2022, and why Small Businesses <3 NFTs
Am I a writer?
WoW Pixies - Really Investing in Web3
Year in Review 2021: A New Start
KC
The World is Fragmenting
The upside is there for the taking.
Restaurants. A not-so-bad Business. Who knew? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Franklin, Keynes, and Humboldt
Playing Around with Bitcoin Online
I am the virus: COVID edition
Memes > Attention > Community > Real Value.
TwentySomething
Balaji, Tim Ferriss, and The Pseudonymous Economy
Year in Review: 2020. That Didn't Go As Planned.
The Murky Moral Obligations of Small Business Owners in a Time of Crisis
A Recap of WeWork's almighty implosion
RappiRoss: Observations on Delivering Food from Mesa Salvaje
A Tragedy in Bogotá
Bogotá in 2020: What to do, eat, drink
Year in Review 2019: The Birth of Mesa Salvaje
It is all about the people, stoopid
Avoiding the Treadmill
Early thoughts on running Mesa Salvaje
A Year in Review 2018: Feeling Lighter in Life
My Investing Framework: Rethinking Risk and Betting on Different Perspectives of the Future
Why Cryptoassets are Important
Cryptoassets as transformative infrastructure for novel governance and economic models — not merely speculative investments.
When was the last time you felt truly alive?
Food for Thought: Andalusian Cuisine
My Tesla Thesis
Abundance & Decentralization Part III: The Great Decentralization of Everything
Abundance & Decentralization Part II: Sustainability in the age of Bitcoin
Why We're Doing What We're Doing
Announcing the move to Colombia to launch Mesa Salvaje — a sustainable coffee shop and community space in Bogotá.