Author, explorer, xenophile, programmer, netizen, conversationalist. Former musician and entrepreneur. Everything is at https://xitter.cf/t.co/fuY6AJRuz5
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12 days in 10 different neighborhoods in Istanbul, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation
Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation: sive.rs/met/at-16
To understand Türkiye and Turkish worldviews a bit, this book is a good quick start: sive.rs/book/TurkeyCS
When walking a city, what do different experts notice that you don’t? Fun book on this: On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz. My notes: sive.rs/book/OnLooking
Very good China book, following four real women in current China: Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang. My notes: sive.rs/book/ChinaFourWomen
Best food I’ve ever eaten: When in Finland go to liemi.fi/ and order SHANGHAI TACOS WITH HALLOUMI. I had them every day for four days.
Notes from Bangalore, India, where I spent most of two weeks in a hospital, and the rest with friends: sive.rs/met/at-15
Building without predicting. (The story of how I built my perfect home.) sive.rs/fit
Derek Sivers retweeted
There are always more than two options.
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16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: sive.rs/met/at-13
India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: fossunited.org/indiafoss/202… Want to meet? Email me: sive.rs/contact
Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else in life is better the second time?
My life was changed by four sentences in four books : sive.rs/4s4b