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This Week
→: This WeekLife Last days in South America, explored Rio a bit and relaxed and swam in the rooftop pool. Then flew from Rio to Toronto, Toronto to Paris, then a train from Paris to Avignon for my sister’s wedding in the south of France. Work Mostly still disconnected! But a little more progress on The Secret…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Taking a break! Went off to Easter Island where there was Little Internet. I could exchange messages, but couldn’t really load web pages. So I limited myself to posting one picture a day and disconnected a bit. It was so good for me. Then spent a night at Santiago airport, and arrived in Rio. One of…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife It was my birthday. Mostly just been working and working out, did try and explore a bit more of Santiago though. And then headed to Easter Island, which is exciting. My first pacific island! Continuing to explore Choose Me May and it is really making a difference in my life! I love that some of my…
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three-oh
→: three-ohI have mostly been trying not to think about how I’m turning 30 this year, but actually it turns out the amount of upheaval I have put myself through lately is often a function of being in a year ending with a 9. People search for meaning, apparently. And that has certainly been true of me.…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Not really liking Santiago that much, so decided to cut things short and head to Easter Island which sounds very cool, albeit a bit lacking in Internet. Met up with someone here which was cool, did a bit of touristing, spent an afternoon getting some needed pampering at the spa, but otherwise I’ve just…
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Malta, March 2015
→: Malta, March 2015[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157651796598319″ align=”center”] In between conferences I decided I needed some sunshine and R&R. I ended up in Malta with my mom, which was not particularly sunshiny… or relaxing. But it was definitely interesting. First, the greatest public transport experience of all time – there was an owl on the bus. Other than that, Malta…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Last week in Bogota, so I took a couple of days to do some final exploring, and then caught a flight to Santiago. Bit wrung out after the previous week, which was Intense and ended with a breakup. Trying to be kind to myself and just go to the gym when I want to…
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Creative Solitude
→: Creative SolitudeBefore I left for South America I kept being asked “aren’t you going to be lonely” like loneliness is some terrible thing to be avoided at all costs. Since I’ve been here, people have been commenting “you seem to be very productive” and it’s true. I have been. I say, “I’m embracing a kind of…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife One of those weeks where I think about the phrase “you can have it all… just not at the same time.” Maybe you can’t even have it all that close together. I’m finding this time in South America really useful – I feel far away from tech industry bullshit, but I’m in a convenient…