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 Shannon above Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina This is the second part of my interview with Shannon O’Donnell, travel blogger. To read the first part, click here.
Jennifer Barry: So what are the differences between Chiang Mai and the south of Thailand?
Shannon O’Donnell: Chiang Mai is much quieter than Bangkok, even though Chiang Mai is the second biggest city. It’s much smaller. Everything is motorbike-able within about 20 minutes here. But the north has a somewhat different culture, with different food than you see in the south. The islands in the south have so much Western influence in them.
JB: Really?
SO: Oh yeah. I went to the Thai islands on my visa run last month and it was so expensive and so Western. Continue reading A Brand New Role, Part 2
 Boston - to move, or not to move? This is another post I’ve meant to do for a while. Raam did a post called 7 Pieces of Advice for My Younger Self back in July, and I found out that Abubakar and Farnoosh were organizing a whole series on this subject. Then I promptly forgot until Bryan at ElevationLife wrote his letter to his teenage self.
Even though I didn’t finish this soon enough to be in the ebook on this subject, I recommend you check it out. It’s free!
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Dear Jennifer,
First of all, break up gently with your boyfriend. I know he’s your first serious relationship, but he ends up costing you a lot of time and money, and the relationship goes nowhere. You make innumerable decisions on what to do and where to go because of him, many of which don’t make any sense in hindsight. Continue reading Advice to My 18 Year Old Self
This is the second part of  David Rostcheck’s guest post. Trained as a physicist, he became a software engineer and has worked in IT for 18 years. David is employed by a security company who sent him to Singularity University in October.
All kinds of other revolutions are fomenting in biology and medicine. Genetic engineers are able to create entire organisms (like bacteria and yeast) from scratch, modifying them to do functions we want, such as produce pharmaceuticals or fuels. Biologists are cataloging the vast diversity of microbial life, finding naturally occurring varieties that do useful tricks from repairing massive radiation damage to producing glue that repairs cracks in concrete. Neurologists are achieving breakthrough maps of the brain’s wiring – a fundamental step to understanding human consciousness.
The intersection of information technology with medicine is opening up vast opportunities for change. Here are some examples (all of which exist now): Continue reading A Visit to the Future: Singularity University, Part 2
 This is a guest post from David Rostcheck. Trained as a physicist, he became a software engineer and has worked in IT for 18 years. David is employed by a security company who sent him to SU in October.
As I approached the campus, an airship flew over my head. And when I stepped on campus, the first person I met was Peter Diamandis – founder of the X Prize Foundation. His foundation had sponsored the record-setting first private manned spaceflight, which is to say that Peter had single-handedly launched the private space movement. Who better to teach changing the world than someone who had done exactly that?
I was at Singularity University, the only educational institution in the world dedicated solely to studying the future and preparing humanity to handle it. Located on the campus of NASA’s Ames Research Facility in California’s Silicon Valley, this two year-old institution is like no other. With faculty and lecturers plucked straight from the pages of Wired magazine and with students drawn from all around the world, I would spend the next 9 days trying to understand the changes that were coming quickly upon us. Continue reading A Visit to the Future: Singularity University, Part 1
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