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Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War
# Kate Capshaw, eat your heart out… When living in and traveling to other countries you have different experiences that you have to adapt to or accept. Those experiences can be enjoyable, entertaining, tolerable, unpleasant or pretty fucking awful. You grow from these experiences. You learn. Your perceptions on life and the world around you […]
Two Continents, Finally
Istanbul, and the world beyond Hong Kong opening again: one hot transit, two continents, and the first proper overseas trip Oscar and I took together.
A Brief History of Accidental Prescience
Thank fuck I travelled when I did
Hong Kong — The Beginning of Exploration
Say “Hong Kong” to people and they immediately think of the myriad brightly-lit skyscrapers festooning the harbour: a daily demonstration of the power of the human race to change a landscape to suit its…
A World in a Grain of Sandstone
After more than twenty years of imagining Angkor Wat, Cambodia offered more than temples: a sunrise crowded with iPhones, a decision made on a Prudential bench, and a reminder that exploration changes the questions we carry home.
High Altitude, Low Expectations of Plumbing
A family birthday, four days on the Inca Trail, three-course meals above the clouds, and a landscape that refused to become mere scenery.
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Technology is useful. People are the point.
I have spent a career working with technology and change. The interesting part was never the machine on its own; it was what people could do differently.
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“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
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