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Tired Of Your Job? Do Something Different With Escape The City

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Past “escapes” included managing a beach lodge in Mozambique, trekking across the Gobi desert, running a post office in Antarctica, or even clearing land mines in Cambodia. More fun that watching icons on your computer screens squiggle, for sure. “Ultimately I lost trust in the whole financial system.”

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My Water Pilgrimage:

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Left: Mahesh, Program Manager. Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. Almost half of its working-age population are unemployed, and the latest United Nations Human Development Index ranks Nepal at #144 out of 188 countries, coming in behind Cambodia (#143), Zambia (#139), and Iraq (#121). At the Welcome Ceremony.

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Steve Jobs as Joe DiMaggio – From Cupertino to Cooperstown

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Everyone from Cupertino to Cooperstown to Cambodia to China. Barely avoiding the California Penal League , Jobs quit Atari and sold his car while Woz sold his calculator and quit Hewlett-Packard ( HP rejected Woz’s Apple computer concept multiple times ). And the fans went wild. The first real tablet, with multi-touch display!

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The Impact of Techbikers – Part II

VC Cafe

I was joined by Michael and Marie, co-organizers of Techbikers over the past few years. Nisha Kadaba, our friend and associate development manager for Room to Read, helped coordinate a visit to the Shree Chandrajyoti Secondary School in Nuwakot District, about two hours from Kathmandu. My little brother also made the trip.

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