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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...

The Elixir · Global Nautical Field Note The “New Rich” Are the Time Affluent A global nautical journey through time, culture, freedom, and the radical idea that the richest life is the one you have time to live. See Full Image Open the Workbook Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “I spell freedom — T.I.M.E. Time is one of my most valuable assets.” Core Equation Time + Attention = Life The purpose is not merely to have time, but to be present enough to inhabit it. Time Philosophy United States of Unconsciousness In the United States of Unconsciousness, the purpose of time is to HAVE it. We SPEND it. We SAVE it. We WASTE it. Time IS mo...

Zen Sailor — Maritime Wisdom Field Log · Open Water Zen Sailor Navigating life's waters with maritime wisdom — dispatches from six laps around the world. "Fear is for folks who don't get out much." Descend Entry 01 · Departure Taking yourself with you After spending eight months a year for the last ten years living out of a suitcase, it is easy to reflect on the value of thoughtful travel. I call it taking yourself with you. There is no such thing as work–life–vacation balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. Travel, at its best, is creative destruction. In the wisdom of the moment, a new language, food, culture, and people are not problems to be solved but mysteries to be lived. The whole exercise has to be one of reconciliation — lowering, removing, or shattering the walls of misunderstanding that unduly separate us, one huma...