Tag: travel
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In 1862, a man named Luther Kountze left Omaha with a massive, fireproof safe. Twelve oxen pulled that safe across the open plains until reaching Denver, which was a frontier town only four years old, merged from three mining camps. The town mainly served prospectors, with saloons and gambling halls. Within a year of Kountze’s…
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I was waiting in line at the airport and the guy in front of me was taking so long to figure out something on his phone with security that several people in other lines passed us by. Whatever challenges he was having with his boarding pass, it never resolved before I jumped into another line…
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One of the biggest changes in my personality with middle age is that I no longer really enjoy travel beyond local weekend getaways. Almost no destination has a pain/novelty ratio that makes it worth it. On the one hand, I’ve traveled enough that few places hold the promise of real novelty and stimulation. On the…
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The more tech industry experience you garner across various fields, the more patterns begin to emerge—pattern recognition across contexts. In software engineering, programming languages follow similar conventions with each language serving particular use cases better than others. Pattern recognition begins to take hold the more experience you garner, allowing you to discern syntax and identify…
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The US, compared to the rest of the world, is optimistic because it is still the land of possibilities. You can remake yourself here, because we are generally forgiving, and provide everyone many chances to reclaim who they are.
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“…it is always my policy to choose the least convenient, most ridiculous, circuitous route to travel from point A to point B.”
