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  • The World, Slightly On Fire (Again)

    By a man who would quite like gas to stop behaving like vintage champagne There was a time—glorious, naïve, almost suspiciously peaceful—when the biggest global concern was whether your neighbor had stolen your recycling bin. Now, however, the planet appears to be run by a committee of caffeinated squirrels armed with nuclear codes. Let’s begin…

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  • Siargao: Paradise, Mosquito Nets, and the Night I’ll Never Forget (No Matter How Hard I Try)

    Back in the summer of 2014, I found myself heading to a remote island in the southern Philippines called Siargao. I’d only ever seen it in documentaries and YouTube videos, where tanned, muscled surfers carved through perfect waves while backpackers with dreadlocks “found themselves”—as if a mirror wouldn’t have been an easier and significantly cheaper…

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