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A hot, languid day train from Bulgaria to Romania, (Veliko Tarnovo to Bucharest via Ruse); as uneventful, in a good way, as a night train from Turkey to Bulgaria.

Peeking, Istanbul, Turkey Sophia Dembling, Confessions of an Introverted Traveler: Introversion and extroversion are inborn traits, and the difference between them is not that one is gregarious and at ease in the world and the other shy and awkward.

A question via email in response to How to Pack for a Nomadic Life… … How does it all work?

The relief of being on the train segueing into the nervousness of the journey, waiting for the Bosphorus Express to depart Istanbul’s Sirkeci Station, deep in the Golden Horn of Istanbul.

The first three pictures are of a display in the Besiktas district of street art from around Istanbul; the rest are a sample of the abundant street art around Istiklal Avenue, located in the historic Beyoglu district near Taksim Square in Istanbul.

My friend Joost recently introduced me to the term “flâneur”: The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of “stroller”, “lounger”, “saunterer”, “loafer”—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which…

A nice, but misguided, attempt to connect the principles behind Umair Haque’s Zombieconomy to our choices of how to travel, followed by a bit of a rant.

A couple days ago I pointed out one way to sleep in Tokyo that I wouldn’t recommend that highly, largely because far better options exist for finding a last-minute place to sleep for the night.

First time here?

One way to spend a night in Tokyo, not recommended.

As I mentioned the other day in my post about the tools, tactics and strategies I use to filter the noise, I depend heavily on people to help “create my web” and point me toward valuable and relevant information and insights.

Via Rob Neyer, Alan Schwarz, Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball’s Unseen Skills: As baseball’s statistical revolution marches on, the last refuge for the baseball aesthete has been the sport’s less quantifiable skills: outfielders’ arm strength, base-running

Revisiting The stock photography industry needs to be unbundled from October 2008: We need to unbundle the functions of the traditional stock photography agency.

Expanding on a couple short notes about ambient intimacy; learning to take the good with the bad.

John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison, Defining Common Collaboration Tensions: Loosely versus Tightly Coupled: One objection you might reasonably raise relative to the collaboration curve is the n-squared problem, in which the expense and effort…

A little known fact: despite my range of geeky interests, my deepest area of knowledge is actually baseball.

Compared to Reno, which I thought I would hate (but didn’t), I expected to like Durango, Colorado (and I did).

A couple thoughts from my current trip on how to live a nomadic lifestyle… “What you own ends up owning you.”

Recently I created a short financial model for a friend to help him understand how his newest startup “works” and estimate the basic operational and financial metrics behind his business.

Creating a financial model forces an entrepreneur to outline very specifically how a business “works”: how a company creates their products, how users and customers find and use their products and how those processes create revenues and costs.

My cities in 2008, originally inspired by Kottke, continuing from 2006 and 2007.

Comedian Steve Martin on how to make it in any field: Be undeniably good.

Everyday we encounter a deluge of information: it’s still there even if you’re not listening.

The last lesson of the Five Lessons series… Make great work.

We’ve discussed in Lessons 2 and 3 about how to create, price and market great content.

In Lesson 2 we discussed how demand has splintered and how photographers have an increasingly larger set of options for products, versioning and pricing.

For the background behind this post check out Introduction: Five Lessons: How Photographers can Create New Business Models and Lesson 1: Photographers are your customers, not your competition.

For the background behind this post check out the introduction: Five Lessons: How Photographers can Create New Business Models.

The industry has been flooded with news lately; Photoshelter closing their stock agency, Corbis laying off more jobs, Photokina and a raft of new camera announcements, etc., etc.

Below are the 25 most important lessons I’ve learned through close observation and first-hand experiences in how entrepreneurs and startups fail.

Billy Beane, the General Manager (GM) of the Oakland Athletics, explaining how to change the team during the regular season, from “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis (page 193-194 if you’re interested): “No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA, a nearly-abandoned town due to an underground coal mine fire since 1962, and an abandoned stretch of highway PA 54 / PA 61 created by a still smoldering fire.

Although you may not notice, desire paths pop up throughout our daily life.

Rather than waiting for the unlikely essay that captures all of my thoughts, experiences and observations in one grand, defining swoop, instead I offer a list of unordered, unstructured and hopefully somewhat insightful observations from 52 days in India:…

People or places?

Continuing from my cities in 2006, my cities in 2007: (only cities where I spent a night count, and the * means I visited multiple times on non-consecutive days) Falls Church, VA * Richmond, VA * Dolly Sods Wilderness, Mononghela National Forest, WV * NYC,

Photography is alive, perhaps more alive than ever.

When do we let our guard down?

This photo was from 6/16, descending the cables on Half Dome, Yosemite, CA, an iconic hike for many, and the highlight of my trip.

Routines start to settle in by day 3 of the West Highland Way.

Starting the day, we prepared to push ourselves on Day 2 of the Way for a 21 mile “long day” to set ourselves up for a five or six-day hike.

I should have passed on the second goblet of Bailey’s.

Airports bring out a range of emotions, from dismay, bittersweetness, or sheer joy in arriving or departing.

I enjoy the present, but I sustain myself with thoughts of the future.

A delay in the schedule.

I took a walk today through a land of swollen streams and rivers, pouring over their banks into the paths.

Why do we travel?

The Dolly Sods Wilderness in the Monongahela National Forest in WV is a place to be reckoned with during the winter… and Bryan and I certainly experienced a little bit of reckoning the weekend of Jan 27-28, 2007.

Looking for the right way to start off the year, I left the New Year’s Party in northern VA at 2 AM, then drove three and a half hours down to Virginia Beach to watch the sunrise from the beach over the Atlantic Ocean.

Following an Internet meme, my travels in 2006: (only cities where I spent a night count, and the * means I visited multiple times on non-consecutive days) Arlington, VA * Baltimore, MD Richmond, VA * Aruba Luray, VA * Montreal, Quebec Shenandoah National…