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Look closer. Think deeper. Live more deliberately.

A weekly letter about walking, observation, systems, photography and the attempt to live more deliberately in a world that trains us to do the opposite.

This is where I collect the ongoing work: essays, notes from the road, photographs, reading reflections and updates as I build toward the 2028 Melbourne to London walk.

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Start Here

Key foundation pieces.

  • The Life We Were Trained For
    Why most of us are handed a script before we are old enough to question it.
  • What Does a Good Life Look Like?
    The central question behind the project.
  • Look. Listen. Live.
    The three words that guide the walking, writing and photography.

The Life Script

Articles about the expected path: school, work, debt, status, retirement, and the quiet pressure to comply.

  • The Life We Were Trained For
  • Who Wrote the Script?
  • Why Ordinary Life Feels So Hard
  • The Retirement Trap

Work, Money and Class

Articles about wage dependency, economic pressure, class immobility and the systems that keep people contained.

  • The Shape of Wage Slavery
  • Why Leaving the Working Class Is So Difficult
  • The Cost of Staying Tired
  • Who Benefits From Your Busyness?

Schooling and Compliance

Articles about how schooling trains people for obedience, permission-seeking and work.

  • School Was Not Built for Freedom
  • Learning to Sit Still
  • The Education of Compliance

Walking

Notes and essays about walking as a deliberate act, a physical practice, and a way of stepping outside the system.

  • Why I Walk
  • Walking at Human Speed
  • The Road to Melbourne to London
  • Notes From Victoria

Photography and Attention

Photographs and reflections on overlooked things: mushrooms, graffiti, signs, bark, textures, and details most people walk past.

  • What We Walk Past
  • Small Things, Large Systems
  • Learning to Look Again

Notes From the Road

Ongoing updates from walks, preparations, failures, thoughts, and the practical reality of building the project.

  • Preparing for the First Victoria Walk
  • What I Will Carry

Reading and Influence

Reflections on books and thinkers shaping the project.

  • Reading David Graeber
  • What Thoreau Still Gets Right
  • Ivan Illich and the Tools That Shape Us
  • Rebecca Solnit and the Meaning of Walking