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Benj Roberts / technology / leadership / cities / life
Travel, work, life, and the thoughts they leave behind.
Stories from the places I have been, the people I have met, and a working life spent inside technology and organisations.
Selected thoughts
Places, people, and the occasional cockroach.
Two Continents, Finally
One overnight flight, one rationed beer, and two continents finally within reach.
A Brief History of Accidental Prescience
Thank the universe I travelled when I did.
Hong Kong — The Beginning of Exploration
The skyline was only the beginning.
A World in a Grain of Sandstone
Blake taught me to look for the infinite; Cambodia reminded me why I still do.
Copenhagen, Slightly Off Balance
Denmark made everything look considered. I responded by crossing Copenhagen on a machine nobody has ever ridden elegantly.
A Million Opinions and No Clipboard in Sight
What happened when market research stopped waiting for a desktop.
A working position
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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Influences / A line I return to
“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”Mary Oliver, When Death ComesExplore influences →
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