Andrej Gajdos

@guillermocarone Crazy, I can't believe this is real in democratic country

If there’s one thing the Spanish Hacienda hates more than anything, it’s when I travel. I’ve been traveling around the world since around 2010, usually once a year, visiting and documenting architecturally relevant buildings. I publish all this content on my own websites, but my videos have also been used by the BBC, Euronews… and my photos by almost every major architecture publisher. This is not my main business, but it is a profitable one. And to remain profitable, there are expenses. BUT Hacienda apparently does not like this. In 2018 I spent a week in NYC documenting 20+ buildings. My hotel was $220 per night. Someone at Hacienda, who probably hasn’t traveled much, decided that was too much and that I could only count 91€ per night as a deductible expense. In 2021 I spent a few weeks in Dubai covering Expo 2020. That time they didn’t have an issue with the hotel, but they told me I could not deduct the car rental. I would love to challenge whoever made that decision to walk around Dubai. I would bet anything that when they review my 2024 invoices, they’ll “find” another one of these nonsense. Because trust me, there’s nothing else to find.

@JesterJum I bought a new car because nobody was selling the model I wanted

Why do people still buy new cars? That $50,000 car you just paid off cost you $63,000 in total payments. Plus, it is now only worth $20,000 so it's lost $43,000 in depreciation....in 5 years. Buy used. Come on people....stop throwing your money away.

@hispanicnomad I experienced something similar in Amsterdam late at night, and there was no staff available to assist or take a complaint. On top of that, all the nearby hotels were fully booked. You were lucky that they covered the cost of a hotel for you.

People think Spaniards are warm and easygoing And sometimes they are... But I've seen the other side Once I missed a connecting flight in Moscow Our plane was coming from Thailand, and we had a layover there on our way to Madrid. Sadly the layover was very short, and a bunch of passengers lost the connecting flight, myself included At the customer service desk there's this very calm Russian guy, doing his job, trying to sort things out Three middle-aged Spanish women decided the right move was to start screaming at him. Full volume. In Spanish In Russia They were not the brightest lot At some point it looked like we were all going to get kicked out of the airport It took another Russian guy (a random stranger) to step in, calm everyone down, and actually negotiate a free hotel room for the whole group The Spanish ladies took the room and never even thanked the guy This kind of crap actually happens all the time in my country. It's mostly middle age women; we even have a name for them, "charos" (equivalent to your Karens) Anyway, a lot of people in Spain are incredible, but we also have our fair share of crazies

@guillermocarone This is the reason why I don't have any money in my spanish bank account 😆 I move there some money only when I need to pay a bill

Since my last tweet sparked so much interest, here is another “funny” story about the Spanish administration. One day I checked my bank account and saw a €590 charge I did not recognize. After 20 min on the phone whit my bank, I learned Hacienda had seized the money. They gave me a case number. I started calling to understand why. No one would explain it over the phone. They could not verify my identity remotely. I had to go in person. The next appointment was in three weeks. At the appointment, they told me a commercial space I owned was being used as a home. Illegal. I told them I had sold it a year earlier, and that when I owned it, it was rented as storage. 20 sqm. One open room. They said THEY HAD PROOF and showed me photos. The photos were not my shop. The building has three street level shops: 1, 2, 3. The inspector mixed them up. He took photos of shop 1 but wrote shop 3 in some forms. The infraction happened three years earlier. Shop 1 was notified repeatedly and did nothing about it. When it was time to collect, they charged shop 3. That was me. The photos showed a kitchen and a bedroom. My shop was a single 20 sqm space. They could verify that in public property records. They said they needed an inspection. Next available slot: two months. I repeated that I no longer owned the property. I could not give access to something that was not mine. They escalated the case. Over the next year, I received three calls. Each time I had to explain everything again. Each time they asked if I could get the new owner to give access. I did not know the new owner. They said they would call back. Finally, someone senior called. He said this would be the last time they called if I was not willing to cooperate. I said I couldn’t do what they asked, no matter how much I wanted to. He said there was nothing they could do. AND THAT IS HOW I LOST €590, spent 10 to 12 hours on calls and visits, and carried this issue in my head for over a year.

rule #2 change your family if you cannot tell them

@seanabraham__ @levelsio I was wondering the same thing :D I bet with knife it doesnt take more time and knife doesnt take so mich space

@levelsio Why not just use a quality bread knife?

We buy like 5 loafs from the local bakery every few months Then cut all loaf in slices, I got this bread cutting machine for it on Amazon Then we freeze those slices We don't eat bread a lot but sometimes, so if you wanna eat bread, you just put a frozen slice in air fryer for about 7 minutes and you have toasted bread One reason is that whenever we go to the bakery here after 12 noon all bread is sold out, so this is easier Now studies show freezing bread and other starches is healthier for you as it doesn't spike your blood sugar as much Related I try to start my day with protein, never carbs or sugar, just egg or meat and then carbs or fruit after I know lots of people start their day with fruits cause I see it at hotel breakfast and I try avoid starting my day with that This trick originally from @AndreyAzimov who got it from Michael from @dojobali

@marclou @bryan_johnson It seems like building it is the hardest part, but then managing is more tricky. In countries such as SEA, it's impossible to find someone reliable. If you are lucky maybe you will find someone after several months, but then local government will try to rip you off. Super risky

I want to build Longevity Hotels. 5 villas. Pitch black bedrooms, eight sleep mattresses, 0 noise. Reverse osmosis water filters. Air filters. Ergonomic desks. There's a restaurant with a chef cooking @bryan_johnson's approved meals. Ingredients from local organic shops. There's also a gym with a coach and a few classes a day. Sauna. Cold bath. The complex is in nature. Quiet but not too far from a nearby city. Customers would be people who've built online businesses and are looking for a place to focus for a few weeks. That's my dream place to stay. I don't know anything about physical business and real estate, but I want to make this real.

@Arkon_Meyer @The_Real_ITDUDE Which cars don’t last 12 years? Low-cost brands?

@The_Real_ITDUDE Men are you stupid? Most regular cars don't even make it to 12 years! And those who do are often on the same price range. And how much money you spend for repairs on combustion engines? Clutches, breaks, oil changes....

10+ year old Teslas are worthless. Thanks Elmo for that. 🤦‍♂️

@judsonyant What fascinates me about this story is that I had a flatmate in Barcelona who was on a similar path to you, and he was also from Tennessee. The last time I heard about him, he had been jailed, but only for a short period. Amazing you found your way out of it.

(birthday) storytime. 2 months after highschool i solo-moved to prague. had $10k saved up. zero life direction. my family raised me christian. up to that point i’d never tasted alcohol. never been to a party. never smoked a cigarette. never did shit. i was a good bible boy. within months i was working at a club. “working” (partying) 6-7 nights/wk. the only time i wasn’t drinking. doing drugs. or selling drugs. was when i was fresh off a hangover or traveling around to other countries… besides that. i became a full fledged addict. beer became water. cigarattes became oxygen. acid became vision. lines became naisal spray. there were literally times i’d do lines of coke in the GYM bathroom. i was completely lost. but i never gave myself the opportunity to be sober so i called it “fun.” this lasted for 3.5 years. i ended up running out of money bc i did more of my drugs than sell them. i ended up getting kicked out of the apartment i was stayin in bc of my parties. it was february. cold as fuck. i was homeless. LITERALLY SLEEPING ON BENCHES IN OLD TOWN SQUARE. i’d get off shifts at 3-4am and wait for someone to wake up and text me: "sure bro you can come sleep on the couch" whenever i’d get that text. i’d rush over to wherever that friend lived in the city. after a few weeks of this i became MADLY DEPRESSED. my average 24 hours looked smt like this… - work at the club at 7pm. - do copious amounts of drugs til 3am. - find an empty bench close to someone’s flat. - wait for them to wake up and let me in. - pop some xans and sleep till 6pm. - rinse and repeat (for 2 months). i got fucking sick of it and knew i was going to die soon. (already had 4 od’s that year) so i swallowed my pride and asked my father to buy me tickets back to the US. praise be to God he agreed to it. once i landed back in tennessee i made a promise to myself… "YOU WILL NOT LEAVE UR ROOM UNTIL YOU MADE A DOLLAR ONLINE." joined twitter. discovered ghostwriting. learned to write. took me around 6 months to make that first dollar and i never looked back. this was 2.5 years ago. and i’m very proud to say that today on my 25th birthday… - i run a successful content agency. - i married the love of my life whom i met on twitter. - i’ve become a man of God. - i’ve been sober/clean since the day i left prague. my life has been a wild fucking journey to say the least but im eternally grateful. cheers to 25 and the future success i will attain 🥂

@recouso Who moved to Dubai?

All the ambitious people I know end up moving to the US or Dubai. Europe is absolutely cooked.

@ZacksJerryRig Did they show you their prodcust portfolio and what they built before?

About a year ago a local software company bid me $100k - $150k to create custom manufacturing software for my wheelchair factory. Fast forward a year - they still aren't finished with the original scope of work - and now want an *additional* $100k because *they* went over budget. I've already paid $150k. What would you do in this situation?

I live in a place, and I’m sure this is true for many cities, where if people followed this rule, the real estate market would basically stop and no one would buy anything.

@illyism Leaving Next.js will make your like much better :) Don't overcomplicate things. I believe 90% of projects don't need any Next.js

Choosing anything else but Next.js will grind you to a halt - too many such cases

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@EndrickRibeiro2 @posthog You can fix this by setting max-height for the sidebar recordings list in chrome inspector 😄

@Andrej_Gajdos @posthog I'm having problems with that too,I am disappointed :(

@posthog why did you make session replays unusable? Why did you make video player so long that users need to scroll to watch it?

@posthog this is definitely a bug where video player and sidebar are growing when user loads more videos. You need to set max-height.

@JespernissenSEO @citizen906 Thank you for responding :) Yes, I use google search for indexing my own website, but I got a lot of new backlinks and was wondering when it's reflected. This is super helpful, thanks for sharing.

@Andrej_Gajdos @citizen906 Ah ok. Never use indexing services directly on your own website. Only on other properties or links.. I have never in all the years I have used them, seen negative effects. Thats not to say negative effects cant exist, I just havent seen it

Parasite SEO with Claude AI is crazy. Earlier today I made a test for todays webinar, thats starting in 10 minutes. I sent it to the indexers, and in only 5 hours, it shot straight to number one in Google! Even outranking my own website for schemawriter! This AI parasite is so powerful, that you dont even need any backlinks to rank it... #seo #claude

@JespernissenSEO @citizen906 Thanks. I was referring to indexing services. I am just a bit afraid of getting a penalty :D

@Andrej_Gajdos @citizen906 It was safe. Claude artifacts no longer work, but they were safe when they did work...

@JespernissenSEO @citizen906 Is it safe?

@citizen906 I use paid indexing services like indexmenow, speedlinks and rapidurlindexer