#XrisLogbook 179 - Permit, Platforms, Patriarchs 🇲🇺

👍🏻 I finally got the official paper version of my Mauritius Investor Permit. It only took four visits, a healthy dose of patience, and enough paperwork to keep a small forest busy. But that’s often how meaningful things happen: the exciting new chapter starts with forms, signatures, and persistence rather than palm trees and sunsets. The permit may now be in my hands, but the real adventure is still ahead. Next time I land on the island, the priority won’t be permits or paperwork… it will be enjoying Mauritius with my wife and daughter, and starting to turn this new chapter into a real life, not just a project. 🎉

👎🏻 Apparently, Instagram and Facebook have decided I may not be old enough to use their platforms. At this stage of life, I’m choosing to take that as a compliment. What fascinates me is not the mistake itself, but what happens next: you enter the AI vortex, where something that would take 30 seconds for a human to understand becomes surprisingly difficult to explain to a machine. Verifying my age should be straightforward, yet it feels like navigating an endless maze of automated forms, invisible rules, and circular dead ends. The irony is that I genuinely believe I could rebuild my entire social media presence faster with Claude Code than find a human capable of fixing the problem within Meta. So if I seem unusually quiet on Instagram or Facebook, it’s not by choice… I’m still locked out, waiting for someone, or something, to realise that I am in fact old enough to be there.🌀

✍🏻 One of the most interesting discoveries I’ve made in Mauritius is that many of the island’s largest businesses are not controlled by anonymous shareholders or distant institutions, but by families whose names have been associated with entrepreneurship for generations. Banking, hospitality, logistics, real estate, agriculture, telecoms… the same family groups often appear across multiple sectors, not because they inherited an economy, but because they helped build it. Coming from Europe, where businesses are frequently bought, sold and restructured, there is something fascinating about organisations that think in decades rather than quarters. It is a reminder that while technology may be accelerating everything, long-term vision remains one of the rarest competitive advantages. In Mauritius, it sometimes feels like the biggest startup is called “Family Business”… and it has already completed a few successful centuries of operation.♟️

🙏🏻 Special thanks this week to Karl , Stephanie, Emmanuel , Melanie , Angel , Nancy , Hasnaa , Junaid

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