Walking along home instead of to it
Wanderers
Path away from it all or towards a better place
What we focus on seems to me to define us more than we realize, no matter if we walk away from it or towards it.
In a sea of cars
There are more than a billion cars on our planet, and the number of vehicles keep growing even though cars look less and less like the answer to many of the both local and global challenges we face today
The challenge of being the edge
Thoughts on innovation, hiking and being first movers
Hiking between high and low habits
Habits are a bit like places... or maybe we can also see them as trails? Notes on habits, recovery and paths
Learning to live with less
We humans put a great pressure on Earth, if we had to carry all our stuff, our impact on the planet would most likely be much smaller
Appreciating what we have
Umbrella vs boots - seeing what we lack The double envy paradox Text and illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt Often the grass can look greener on the other side, as we focus on what we lack instead of what we have. The good thing is that by talking together we can get the other side of... Continue Reading →
Life is the ultimate long distance hike
The walk of life is one of the most used metaphors in our language and in making sense of landscapes of understandings
Refuel on hike
Getting enough to drink and eat on a hike is one of the things that is often not considered important for inexperienced hikers
From Warrior to SelfieMan
Thoughts on how we went from spear throwing warriors, over self-sheltering businessmen, to become the modern Selfie taking man
Home Sweet Story
8. March, 2019 I wonder if a home is much more than a house and a place... Things like a relationship, a feeling, a time, a trail... and a story. A story we follow in all we do, both day and night.
In the hand of Artificial Intelligence
4. March 2019 More and more of our decisions are based on data collected, stored and analyzed, not by humans, but by computers
AI is ready, are we?
Soon most of us will become irrelevant, as technology can do more and more of our work, cheaper and better than us - without asking questions
Hiking on different trails
We can walk in the same places but still be on different trails
Free Lunch
Always learned there is no such thing as a free lunch - but on a hike a cold winter day I realized there might be one exception to this rule - Nature
Nature Deficit disorder
Today most of us are keeping thoughts and nature at a digital distance. Walking a few hours first can help us get back to nature
Understanding Circular economy
It is more difficult to create circular reality - than to talk about it. But we slowly starting to find ways to do circular economy
Sharing digital reality alone
From campfire to digital screens, Thoughts and illustrations of a changing reality
Santa Claus and hiking under digital chimneys
Thoughts on digital platforms vs Communities
Tired of the long Christmas lists
Being back out on the trails can be the best way to recover from days with too long to do lists
Bird cliff biodiversity house
Sketching up ideas for houses that are both good for biodiversity, locals and hikers
It’s better to walk about thinking than think about walking
Logbook note: How to think is one of the classic questions in philosophy - And most of the great thinkers were not in doubt - thinking is better on foot
The faster you move the longer you need to go
Strange how walking can be the solution and how a higher speed can make the distance you have to travel so much longer
Technological hope and hiking
Can technology save the logic of the industrial era - and do we really want to save it?
Conflicts around the edge
Some conflicts are all about perspective - drawing on thrive and hiking
Frits Ahlefeldt: sketchbook and stories 