Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim. Grand Narratives. Strategic Narratives. Tempo — timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making. I find that traveling is one of the most disruptive things in my ability to keep my workflows in reasonable order.
Over the years, I’ve oscillated between two modes of travel, which I call reboot travel and pause travel. Reboot travel in the ideal case involves getting to Inbox Zero, clearing all pending time-bound work at your home base, achieving zen mind, and then rebooting into a sort of minimalist “travel mode.” Pause mode involves doing none of the above, but just taking care of any urgent red-flag home-base items that you are already aware of, mentally hitting “pause” on everything else, and heading out, relying on Internet connectivity to keep you going with only minor interruptions and delays and breakdowns.