The Bleached Blindfold
In the totality of all possible knowledge there are three categories:What you know.What you know you don’t know.What you don’t know...
Love To Burst Your Bubble
Love To Burst Your Bubble We all live in bubbles — invisible cocoons where everything is safe, happy and comfortable.In my last postca...
Awe Yeah
Last week a friend of mine told me about “The Science of Awe”, and how it helped him understand his obsession with surfing big wave...
The World Ajar
There was a time in my life when I traveled so much that, when I bumped into friends at random places around the globe, it barely g...
Baking Bread
When the world is open and bank accounts are swollen and passports have fresh pages, boredom is cured beyond our walls. We find stimulati...
Lukewarm Coke
Beautiful strangers? I’ve known more than I deserve.I once met a guy in a cab from Mali to Guinea and, when we arrived at our destination...
Perspective Powerslide
I’m reading Sapiens right now. It’s a good book, but dense. I probably won’t finish it. Anyway, the author does a great job at framing hu...
In Common
In Common In the first note I wrote for Db I recommended Sebastian Junger’s Tribe, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. Especially t...
Beautiful Strangers
Last week I went to the grocery store like I was gonna rob the joint. I had a mask over my face, gloves on my hands and a steely focus on...
The Wind-Up
Did you ever play with wind-up toy cars as a kid? The ones where you’d twist the winder and then let it go? If you wound them up a little...
Dream On Dreamer
You’re probably reading this at home. It’s where I’m writing you from. (Hi.) Millions of other people around the world are here, too.Home...