Today’s office involves a few hours stopover in Dubai, then a 3am flight to Kabul. The upside of sleeplessness? Watching the dawn over Afghanistan turn …



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One of the pleasures of moving to a new city is in understanding the nuanced commuting behaviours of its inhabitants. For all our immersive, shadowing …
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One of the those late nights on the tail end of one too many interviews topped off with one to gin and tonics. For the …
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Rule #1: when you’re hurtling through the desert trying to make up for lost time – stick to the road.   Rule #2: if you do decide …
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They’ll be tears before bedtime. After six weeks on the road, clocking up over 5,000 land-miles in China alone, it’s time to head home. Flight UA …
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In San Francisco/Monterrey/tha’ Valley until next Sunday. Don’t be shy. Yup, the SF dawn sho does take the edge off permaphuck.
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Early morning telco with the LA design team. In the daze of the morning managed to misplace the local Chinese teleconference details so dialing directly …
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14 hours from Lhasa to Golmud, one power socket in the carriage alternately occupied by the guards laptop and the guards printer. Infrastructure is: what …
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After a couple of days to wind down discussions in Lhasa it’s time to say mata ne to the research crew – next we meet …
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We’ve not been issued with oxygen masks, and despite signing a high-altitude waiver form there is no real pending sense of threat. In fact the …
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