Isn't it strange what ends up sticking in your head? They're almost always the things that didn't seem particularly notable at the time.
The doomed combo of ice shake + cold chicken sandwich in Huay Xai. The girl selling carrots at 2am in Budapest. The crew cooking eggs directly on the boat engine en route to Luang Prabang.
Just writing this, it appears what's memorable for me is... food?!
Anyway, don't forget: your chance to win $50 is down below π
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Congrats to Lorenz, our latest survey winner!
"My favorite place is a little former hotel that my parents bought along with some friends on the Schauinsland overlooking the Rhine valley next to Freiburg where I grew up. The view is always mesmerizing."
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William Langewiesche, a true master of longform journalism, died in May. His stories β ranging from aviation disasters to life in the French Foreign Legion β have become classics of the genre.
A good place to start is the tale of El Faro, a cargo ship sunk by a hurricane in the Bahamas. Be warned: if you click that link with the intention of giving it a cursory glance, you might instead find yourself thoroughly hooked. |
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Speaking of shipwrecks: the brief life and rapid demise of Target Canada also makes for a gripping read β leaving the same impression of an overconfident crew sailing into the eye of a hurricane.
With an inexperienced team balancing tight timelines and untested software, Target's first attempt at international expansion proved to be "one of the most confounding sagas in Canadian corporate history.
"The debacle cost the parent company billions of dollars, sullied its reputation and put roughly 17,600 people out of work." |
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When you're the co-founder of a bag company, you can rely on your mother to forward you every single backpack-related article she comes across.
For journalists, the equivalent is story pitches: stories with killer hooks like "This was on the front page of the newspaper last week," or "you should interview my friend Steve."
And so, in the spirit of Father's Day, this journalist decided to actually execute his dad's pitch: namely , to give Steve a call.
"My mind wandered to my dad, and to his friend named Steve. No, Steveβs story has very little potential to harness a major audience, or to break news. But . . . what if my teenage tendencies to ignore my father were blocking my own sense of curiosity? I decided to call up Steve."
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