A Word About Jackson Bates

by Lane Wallace

A little while back, I got a phone call from my college roommate … a woman who shared a God-awful basement apartment with me our senior year, enduring a crazy co-habitant, unruly basketball players living upstairs, flood (said basketball players got drunk one night and knocked their toilet off its mount, and the gushing water [...]

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Good Jobs and Acceptable Risks

by Lane Wallace

One of the goals of this website and blog is to help adventurers, entrepreneurs and explorers find information, kindred spirits, and resources that might ease the journey or offer good advice.  Sometimes I do that through posts. But in the Resources section of this website, I list books, articles, websites and other resources I’ve found [...]

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And Speaking of Creative Repackaging…

by Lane Wallace

The New York Times ran an article back in May chronicling how two brothers stumbled upon some boxes in their grandfather’s attic and ended up starting their own company to exploit a new use for their grandfather’s forgotten invention.
The story goes like this:
In the late 1960s, a fun-loving entrepreneur named Bill Smith came up with [...]

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Is Creativity Really Just Repackaging?

by Lane Wallace

The subject of creativity—where it comes from, what triggers it, what inhibits it, and how it relates to other processes such as innovation and invention—is an important one, especially on a blog devoted to exploring passion-inspired, adventurous, and uncharted roads and approaches to life. After all, some creative thinking is absolutely essential to finding your [...]

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A Tale of Ducks and Adventure

by Lane Wallace

One of the themes of this website—and, indeed, much of what I’ve written about adventure over the years—is the unpredictable places any adventure can take you. Most of my big adventures have come from what seemed a simple enough idea at the time. In 2001, for example, I only intended to go to Kenya to [...]

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Entrepreneurial passion and the concept of “Enough”

by Lane Wallace

In researching another post a few weeks ago, I came across an older item on Stanford professor Bob Sutton’s blog that I thought was worth excerpting here … especially seeing as this is graduation season, when millions of young people set forth in the world to make their mark and their fortune.
I am an unabashed fan [...]

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I Do This Because: Brian Hunt

by Brian Hunt

Ed Note: “I Do This Because …” is a series of guest essays on this site by adventurers, entrepreneurs, and brave explorers of experience, uncharted territory, and life. As the title indicates, the essays offer the authors’ reflections on why they chose the path they did, and why they continue on that path, despite all [...]

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Thanks for the Mail!!!

by Lane Wallace

Just a quick note to thank everyone who’s written me since I announced my departure from Flying magazine at the end of March (and the move of my “Flying Lessons” column to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Sport Aviation magazine).
It has been heartwarming to hear from so many people that my column found a home with [...]

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Adapt or Change?

by Lane Wallace

A reader posted a comment a couple of days ago on a post I’d written back in March, titled “Puzzles, Adventure, and Longevity.” In the post, I talked about how puzzle solving, either on paper on in navigating an uncharted landscape in life, has been shown to make us happy, and that optimistic people tend [...]

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Does Comfort Stifle Creativity?

by Lane Wallace

The New York Times recently ran an article looking back on the golden age of “SoHo”(or, for those unfamiliar with the shorthand of New York’s neighborhoods, the artistically inclined neighborhood in Manhattan located SOuth of HOuston Street) back in the 1970s, when it was a gritty, unfinished and cheap place to find studio space instead [...]

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