Disrupting the Rabblement

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver Earlier this week Chris Guillebeau released a new (free) e-book called The Tower. As you’d expect from that chap, it’s pretty damn good and well worth reading. Chris talks a lot about legacy projects in there. [...]

While I was in Amsterdam a few weeks back, a friend suggested I go visit her for a few days in a small Dutch city named Deventer. This sounded like a great idea to me. I feel you don’t really get to know a country if you spend all your time in the one big [...]

Since I started my big round the world trip a few weeks back, I’ve heard the same exclamation from several people: “Wow, you’re really doing it!” My initial, unspoken reaction is usually along the lines of, “Well, yeah. I said I was going to. What did you expect?” What I’ve come to realize though is [...]

Note from Niall: Below is a guest post from Vlad Dolezal of Alive With Passion. To celebrate, I concocted and conducted the above video interview with said Vlad. … Have you heard of John the rock-climbing instructor? In many ways, John was an ordinary rock-climber. Except he had a very unusual way of testing applicants [...]

Can’t see the video? Click here. Last week I told a guy I met here in Burgos about the 5 Tongues of Awesome, aka my goal of becoming fluent in the five most widely-spoken languages in the world. No sooner had I put it out there than he was shooting it down. “You should learn [...]