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Silence is golden. Or maybe it’s made of Swiss chocolate.

March 16, 2010

“The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason.” [...] “We have lots of cake. But no revolutionaries. Revolution, the shouting and breaking things. It’s very un-Swiss.” from The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway* The [...]

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Friends in all the far places.

January 22, 2010

When you are an expat, friendship is tricky. When you move around a lot, local friends are a rare commodity. Currently, my closest friends live in New York, Oslo and Bern (soon to move back to Florida). I’m a firm believer in the fact that it’s better to have a few very good friends than [...]

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