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  • Ice Man

    I’ve just finished reading Alfred Lansing’s 1959 classic Endurance, which recounts how Ernest Shackleton and his men survived seventeen months in Antarctica after their ship was crushed in the ice. It’s a hell of a story. I’m struck by how Shackleton struggled to make regular life work. In the cushioned world of upper-middle-class London, he was…

  • Non-explosive Demolition Agent

    I’ve thought of this trick often, usually when I’m on the receiving end of someone else’s heat – whether it’s a lump of human ego or a chunk of granite.

  • Hacerse el Sueco

    Sweden tops the innovation scoreboard. I wonder how come…

  • Abandoning Ship

    I remember when every boat had a number, and you paid three euros a year to keep it that way. It worked.

  • Travels with Chet

    Dogs change your map.

  • Exit Strategy

    I recently took a hard look at what success means to me as a writer.