“Something about the motion of walking is conducive to generating both ideas and conversation. You can empty your mind and open your mind at the same time.” —Kevin Kelly

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf reports from a “Walk and Talk” across northern Thailand. Interviewees and conversation topics are listed by time-code below. Participant write-ups about (or alluding to) the 2023 Thailand Walk and Talk include:

The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know, by Craig Mod
Walk and Talk: Everything We Know (PDF document), by Kevin Kelly
Walking the Heck out of Thailand, by Craig Mod
Walk and Talk, by Derek Sivers
Expanding Home, by Liz Danzico
Where Do You Call Home?, by Jason Kottke
2023: Walking, by Dan Wang
Why Not Pay Teachers $100,000 a Year?, by Daniel Pink

Kevin Kelly (4:00-15:00)

Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) is a photographer, writer, and futurist, with much of his work centering on Asian and digital culture. His newest book is Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.

Travel can be a way to see the future (Deviate episode)
Kevin Kelly on the lost world of 1970s Asia (Deviate episode)
Wired (technology magazine)
The Cotswolds (region in central Southwest England)

Liz Danzico (15:00-27:45)

Liz Danzico is VP of Design at Microsoft, and the Founding Chair of the MFA Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts.

Long-distance hiking at home (Deviate episode)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (book)
Lets Drift (Kenyan hiking club)
Hoka (brand of walking shoes)

Silvia Lindtner (27:45-46:00)

Silvia Lindtner is a writer, ethnographer, and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. Her book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation was published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Seeking rural places (Deviate episode)
Jiangxi (Chinese province)
Guangdong (Chinese province)
Yunnan (Chinese province)
Salzburg (city in Austria)
The Vulnerable Observer, by

Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand

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Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand