Using AI for trip planning
AI tools like ChatGPT can make your travel planning much easier. Just be sure to double check the results…
Author: Steve Brock
Creating in the valley
Our best creative work often comes out of our struggles and suffering more than our happy times
Illustrated books based on trips
My favorite illustrated books for adults
One of the best ways to explore your worlds—connecting the world around you with the one within you—is to tap into experiences that take you back to your childhood (assuming that was a positive time in your life). And one way to do that is through looking at the books that you loved as a child. But another approach is to read books now as an adult that…
My favorite illustrated books: travel
Like many of you, I’m fond of books. I rely heavily on the library for supplying my addiction, er, reading needs. It is not unusual to have a stack of 40 or more tomes piled up by my chair with another dozen or so on or by my bedside table, and a few others scattered around the house. Many of these will be “research” related: for an upcoming…
Montevideo, Uruguay and the psychology of architecture
“We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.” – Winston Churchill In Hidden Travel I wrote, “Where you are almost always affects who you are.” I still believe that. But lately, I’ve wondered at how precisely that works. Neuroscientistists and psychologists, it turns out, have some answers for us. Several years ago, the BBC ran a piece entitled, “The hidden ways that architecture affects how you…
The Glorious Pursuit of Doomed Quests
What you discover in a failed quest may be the true quest you were meant to pursue. I have two new books that will be coming out this summer. The first is called Make Something Beautiful: The Paradoxes of Creativity and How to Make Them Work for You. It’s a gift book taking some of the principles from The Creative Wild and framing them within the context of 21 different paradoxes…
The mysterious movement of wood in Chiloé
In the Chilean archipelago of Chiloé, you find a centuries’ old tradition that is still very much alive. There’s a zombie-like nature to wood. When you cut down a tree, it’s dead. And yet, it still keeps on moving. Not just immediately, but for years—even centuries—after. It would be creepy if you ever really thought about it. And of course, most of us don’t. Unless you’re a woodworker.…
