the advantage of being a tourist is that I can float in a kind of bubble, seeing things for the first time, invisible to the usual pressures of work, existing in a place that doesn't yet have a name.

and crucially I can have new ideas that I wouldn't have thought about at home.

I'm sitting on the beach in ipanema, rio de janeiro, at 7:00 am on a tuesday morning, watching the long horizon, the ozone rising, putting on my sunglasses and preparing my eyes for a new look at things.

something I've never seen before.