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Against the backdrop of the waves.
Posted on September 10, 2025 1 Comment
10 September 2025 It’s been over a month since we moved to Thailand for my sabbatical, and it’s taken about that long for me to catch up on everything that got away from me during a hectic spring and summer. My term as the Associate Director of the School of Leadership and Human Resource Development […]
Work at 38.
Posted on July 11, 2024 2 Comments
11 July 2024 I turned 38 this week. Growing up, my dad often repeated the advice to find what I love to do in the world and then find a job that would pay me for it. Perhaps a little trite, but that advice has been humming in the background of my mind as I’ve […]
Public transport and feeling alive in Timor-Leste
Posted on April 27, 2024 Leave a Comment
28 April 2024 My shower water heater doesn’t work but it’s warm enough outside that I can’t call it a cold shower. I read in my room until breakfast is open. The Portuguese colonial influence – or at least globalization – is evident in the breakfast options. Bread and pastries with a variety of spreads, […]
Notes on Traveling to Southeast Asia
Posted on April 13, 2024 2 Comments
14 April 2024 Precarious Transport in Bali The humidity hits like New Orleans but the air smells different. I find my way to my taxi outside the airport in Bali. The taxi’s AC is welcome but blows pathetically like it’s been overworked and under-serviced. My driver hands me his phone with a cracked screen to […]
2020: Our Year In Review
Posted on December 17, 2020 1 Comment
December 17, 2020 For most people around the world, 2020 has meant complete upheaval, stress, sickness, and death. I think of my brother who works at Whole Foods and is unable to work from home, my cousin who is an airline pilot in an industry among those hit the hardest, and my sister who quit […]
Coming back to writing
Posted on December 9, 2020 Leave a Comment
December 7, 2020 When I moved to Thailand in 2009, I kept a blog to keep in touch with family and friends and reflect on my experiences. After my first two years abroad, my sister self-published my blog into a book as a gift to me and wrote a kind forward. My writing certainly isn’t […]
Motorcycle Trip Through Cambodia – Blog + Video
Posted on January 22, 2016 Leave a Comment
January 22, 2016 This post doesn’t relate exactly to human and organizational learning but I thought I would share this on my blog. I finally got around to editing the nearly five hours of video footage from my motorcycle trip through Cambodia in May 2014. My friend Davor and I went to Cambodia for two […]
7 Tips to Simple Urban Living in DC
Posted on January 2, 2016 3 Comments
January 2, 2016 If you’re a “normal” twenty-someone living in DC, you probably work for somewhere between $30,000-90,000, have a car payment, and have somewhere between $15,000-150,000 of student loan debt (and you probably have $2000-5000 of credit card debt… but hey, you’re “building credit” right?). Just two weeks ago I heard someone in a […]
Holiday Update
Posted on December 26, 2015 2 Comments
What a busy fall… Unfortunately, it’s become normal and perhaps even desirable to be busy in today’s world. Still, I resist. I relish free mornings and nothing to do on Friday nights. That being said, it’s hard to think of a better adjective than busy to describe my fall. Here are a few scattered updates: I finally […]
A nice lesson from a somewhat arbitrary read
Posted on September 18, 2015 Leave a Comment
Sometimes the best books are the ones you end up reading somewhat arbitrarily. A book such as this for me has been The Life and Work of George Boole: Prelude to the Digital Age by Desmond MacHale. George Boole, as you may know, is the founder of Boolean Logic and Boolean Algebra. Perhaps one of […]
Oliver S. Crocco 