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This is all about travel. In the terms of the author I have to consider myself a front-row person. But I can easily go back to the rural area I come from - and

This is all about travel. In the terms of the author I have to consider myself a front-row person. But I can easily go back to the rural area I come from - and I do so regularly - and I really enjoy it every single time. If I could, I would probably live there. The thing is: you cannot live where your roots are and be who you want to be at the same time. You have to travel. A guy from the Ukraine cannot be a Stanford professor and be close to his parents at the same time. But traveling technology can make this simpler. It will probably never fully resolve this issue, but it can get better. In all these talks about how traveling damages our climate and our cities we should never forget what purpose it can serve.

saiya-jin 7y ago
> you cannot live where your roots are and be who you want to be at the same time thank you for this, it describes so many of us these days
new2628 7y ago
> A guy from the Ukraine cannot be a Stanford professor and be close to his parents at the same time. They can, however, use their experience from Stanford, and try to improve education in Ukraine, be an independent researcher in Ukraine, try to create a "mini-Stanford" around themselves in Ukraine, etc. An uphill battle for sure, but possibly with more immediate impact.
- choeger 7y ago
  That is not the point. This would be like telling people who want better working conditions to found a company and implement them. When our hypothetical professor starts building Stanford in the Ukraine he stops being what he wants to be, a Stanford professor, and becomes something entirely different, a Stanford builder.
  - new2628 7y ago
    Sure, I got the point, one cannot do the exact same thing in both places. > This would be like telling people who want better working conditions to found a company and implement them. In some situations that may be a reasonable thing to say, and indeed, many companies are founded that way. But let me back down for a different reason: in the same situation I am not practicing the advice I was giving.
fit2rule 7y ago
The more you travel, the more you find that one persons front-row is another persons back-row, and so it goes on and on in circles, until eventually you realize that travel is the only way to go.

saiya-jin 7y ago

> you cannot live where your roots are and be who you want to be at the same time thank you for this, it describes so many of us these days

new2628 7y ago

> A guy from the Ukraine cannot be a Stanford professor and be close to his parents at the same time. They can, however, use their experience from Stanford, and try to improve education in Ukraine, be an independent researcher in Ukraine, try to create a "mini-Stanford" around themselves in Ukraine, etc. An uphill battle for sure, but possibly with more immediate impact.

choeger 7y ago
That is not the point. This would be like telling people who want better working conditions to found a company and implement them. When our hypothetical professor starts building Stanford in the Ukraine he stops being what he wants to be, a Stanford professor, and becomes something entirely different, a Stanford builder.
- new2628 7y ago
  Sure, I got the point, one cannot do the exact same thing in both places. > This would be like telling people who want better working conditions to found a company and implement them. In some situations that may be a reasonable thing to say, and indeed, many companies are founded that way. But let me back down for a different reason: in the same situation I am not practicing the advice I was giving.

fit2rule 7y ago

The more you travel, the more you find that one persons front-row is another persons back-row, and so it goes on and on in circles, until eventually you realize that travel is the only way to go.