Riding in Cars with Strangers
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Riding in Cars with Strangers
The more you experience something outside of what you’ve known, the more open-minded you become . . . but this worldview can also be somewhat alienating, especially to people at home.
Chris Guillebeau • The Happiness of Pursuit: Find the Quest that will Bring Purpose to Your Life
When it comes to dramatic shifts of this nature, I like to reflect on why it happened so I can have a better understanding of the architecture of my cognitive blind spots. In this case, there was something that I was clearly missing from my worldview that was made apparent only after I personally experienced it. Where else do these blind spots exis... See more
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Ajinkya Wadhwa added
Travel is more than just an escape; the memories we develop, especially the surprising ones, are transformational. I’ve recounted them enough times that they’ve intertwined in my identity. Part of who I am today is the person who swam with sea lions in the Galápagos, sang with baseball fans in Korea, and laughed at polyamorous love locks in Germany
... See moreScott Keyes • Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World
Iconic successes seemed outright strange at first: Amazon (wait days to receive a product you’ve never seen), eBay (buy beanie babies from someone thousands of miles away), Google (trust an algorithm to answer your questions), LinkedIn (publicly post your resume), Facebook (share personal updates with people you haven’t seen in years), Airbnb (stay... See more
Philip Clark • The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
Part of it is the process of getting older, and part of it comes from the experience itself. In my case I realized that much of travel was about being open to different ways of life and changes outside my control. When I found myself getting frustrated, more often than not the problem was my own expectations.
Chris Guillebeau • The Happiness of Pursuit: Find the Quest that will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Experiences with strangers can shape how we define our community and politics.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38
Keely Adler added
When I arrived at the first of the many neighbourhoods that I would call “my barrio,” I was able to leverage proximity to quickly integrate into the local community with a level of Spanish that was enough to be able to make an effort. I took advantage of the low social barriers to entry. With a wealth of meeting places on my doorstep, I was able to... See more
Brendan Boyle • Spain's fix for a lonely planet
Brian Wiesner added