treetalker 15 hours ago

A nice reminder for the end of the year at the end of the post:

> So what's the point of travel? … For me, it's something like, what becomes salient to you. I started asking questions about China I hadn't even thought to ask about America.

> Another thing I noticed is more personal. Two weeks of being AFK, and of having the excuse of using a burner phone to put off messages, helped me clear the cache of thoughts about … minutiae. …

> It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place.