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Master Storyteller / Global Adventurer / Instructional Design Expert Ed Reif Master Storyteller / Global Adventurer / Instructional Design Expert Strategic Overview The Weightless Life in a Heavy World From eight circumnavigations of the globe to the war-torn streets of Afghanistan, from high-stakes poker tables to luxury cruise decks-discover the extraordinary journey of a man who transforms life's greatest adventures into profound learning experiences. 8 Books Published 8 Globe Circumnavigations 100+ Countries Explored Endless Stories to Tell Audio Hear From Ed Reif The Weightless Life in a Heavy World A digital journey through a cloud-based life Your browser does not support the audio element. ...

2015 > 2020 > Fair Isle The Future Ain't What It Used To Be From Silicon Beach to Fair Isle: the five-year plan nobody got right. An on-demand future built around speed and convenience collides with a year defined by masks, empty flights, reopening, distance, and the radical value of staying put. See Video Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Retrospect · 2020 Hands Up. Who Got the Five-Year Plan Right? In 2015, the future looked like an app. In 2020, the future looked like an empty seat, a cloth mask, a reopened beach, and a world trying to remember the correct order of things. The source opens with the challenge plainly: when you were making your five-year plan in 2015, who got this right? The pandemic did not merely interrupt the forecast. It changed the unit of value. Speed, access, proximity, and convenience suddenly had competitors: space, safety, s...

Field Notes / Sea / Sky / War Zones Direction Over Speed From cruise ships to cruise missiles, one operating principle survived every border: know where you are pointed before you worry about how fast you are moving. See Full Image Show Text “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” Edmund Hillary Opening Bearing Literature in a Hurry Documenting travel with pictures has one powerful advantage: it has to remain true. Truth makes room for contradiction. It forces you to tolerate different perspectives instead of flattening the world into one clean story. Field Note 01 From Cruise Ships to Cruise Missiles “You worked on a cruise ship and in a war zone?” Yep. From cruise ships to cruise missiles. The language was often the same: “At your service. Yes, ma'am. Ye...