Travel
Elsewhere
Dispatches from the road. Sea and sky — and wherever the work takes me next.
Bhubaneswar, from above.
The pocket square was not an accident.
Koh Phi Phi. The view earns the climb.
Odisha. Some things stay.
Somewhere between one thing and the next.
The last light over Phi Phi. The boats knew before we did.
The best operating system is no Wi-Fi.
On the steppe, nobody asks what you do for a living.
Red rocks. Zero bandwidth. Peak clarity.
The altitude makes everything feel achievable.
Standing at the edge helps with perspective. On most things.
The meeting happened. The city carried on.
Soviet ambition carved in stone. Some ideas outlast the ideology.
Every city looks manageable from a distance.
White shirt, no agenda. Sometimes the best strategy is no strategy.
The room had energy. The pocket square had opinions.
July '22. Five clients. One whiteboard. The whole thesis in one diagram.
Somewhere between islands, watching Thailand disappear behind us.
Front row. Bhangra happening behind. Priorities sorted.
Cities look like circuits from up here. Which is more or less what they are.
Took it further than anyone asked me to.
Found the fifth Beatle. He's Indian.
"The world rewards people who show up — to the meeting, to the mountain, to the unknown city with no plan."