Travel Notes
Lessons gathered across borders and on the move.
I spend much of my work life on the move meeting companies, leaders and teams in different countries, industries and cultures.
That constant exposure shapes the way I think and the way I solve problems.
These Travel Notes collect the insights that only emerge when you work outside your own borders: ideas born in airports, conversations that shifted perspectives, and experiences that refined my approach long before they became a method or a project.
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The Poison Market
Casablanca, February 2026. The city changes states without warning. At night, La Corniche is a dilute solution: lights, music, people mixing without leaving a trace. The Port is a suspension: heavy particles, friction, gravity. Le Triangle d’Or is a supersaturated solution: a single grain of dust can crystallize into a sharpened blade. La Ville Nouvelle […]
The shadows of Zamalek
Cairo, August 2024. At the Outdoors Lounge, Gin Tonics are consumed under the distracted gaze of marble sphinxes. It is a sort of geopolitical incubation chamber, an oligarchic limbo where Cairo’s elite mingles with the ghosts of international finance. Placidly, the Nile flows beyond the balustrade like a ribbon of dark silk. The breeze […]
The Logistics of Chaos
Addis Ababa, November 2021 At the lobby, there was that kind of silence that wasn’t an absence of noise, but rather a filter: behind the thick glasses, the city seemed suspended in a pause. Inside Hyatt Regency, everything moved along as if the war were only a red line running across the screen. In […]
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The Poison Market
Casablanca, February 2026. The city changes states without warning. At night, La Corniche is a dilute solution: lights, music, people mixing without leaving a trace. The Port is a suspension: heavy particles, friction, gravity. Le Triangle d’Or is a supersaturated solution: a single grain of dust can crystallize into a sharpened blade. La Ville Nouvelle […]
The shadows of Zamalek
Cairo, August 2024. At the Outdoors Lounge, Gin Tonics are consumed under the distracted gaze of marble sphinxes. It is a sort of geopolitical incubation chamber, an oligarchic limbo where Cairo’s elite mingles with the ghosts of international finance. Placidly, the Nile flows beyond the balustrade like a ribbon of dark silk. The breeze […]
The Logistics of Chaos
Addis Ababa, November 2021 At the lobby, there was that kind of silence that wasn’t an absence of noise, but rather a filter: behind the thick glasses, the city seemed suspended in a pause. Inside Hyatt Regency, everything moved along as if the war were only a red line running across the screen. In […]