Welcome to my latest thoughts and travels.
This is where I gather whatever I’m exploring at the moment: reflections from life across cultures, ideas I’m working through, observations from the road, and the occasional dive into issues that simply catch my attention.
Browse the most recent posts and see what resonates. If something catches your eye, dive in and explore.
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Do Trade Tariffs Affect Individual Cross-Border Consultants?
In an increasingly global economy, more and more consultants are working across borders—advising clients, facilitating training, or delivering specialized services from one country to another. But if you’re an individual consultant (not a company), you may be wondering: do trade tariffs apply to my services? The short answer is no—but there are important exceptions and…
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Agency Within Causation
The case is not for unconstrained will, but for partial agency — real choice within constraints, genuine authorship within causation. The central asymmetry is that hard determinism is often treated as the scientific default, even though the claim that every thought is entirely the inevitable product of prior causes is itself a strong metaphysical assertion…
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The Knowledge That Cannot Be Bought
Governments can rebuild budgets and reopen institutions. Rebuilding trust is far more difficult. This article explores how the dismantling of diplomacy, development cooperation, and other instruments of soft power creates an accountability vacuum, eroding relationships, institutional memory, and influence that have taken decades to build.
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Building a Generation of Second Hand Thinkers
Every year I spend in education, I become more convinced we're confusing efficiency with learning. AI can be a powerful tool, but what happens when it starts replacing the very struggle that teaches us to think? Somewhere along the way, we've stopped asking how to protect learning and started asking…
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The PDF That Called Home
What should be a simple local action became something else. Opening a PDF revealed that my software was communicating with its manufacturer during what appeared to be a purely local task. The experience prompted a broader reflection on digital sovereignty, user consent, and the growing distance between people and the…
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