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Mindful Wandering • Stealth Working
The Office Is Dead—It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet
I don’t sell escapism. I practice integration: delivering exceptional work while living fully—whether that’s a Gibraltar café, a Shetland storm, or a Cape Town sunrise.
Signature Quote
“The most successful remote workers aren’t the ones who talk about being remote— they’re the ones who make location irrelevant to trust.”
Conscious Liberation
Shift from the chase for more to the quiet revolution of enough. Design your week around outcomes, not optics.
Resilience
From Afghan classrooms to maritime lectures, poker tables to polar winds—resilience is a system: redundancy, clarity, and calm.
Clarity
Instructional design meets philosophy. Simple patterns, repeatable practices, reliable results.
Journeys That Shaped the Playbook
Travel as a functional metaphor: each place taught me a principle.
Cape Town – Paradise with Bandwidth
Fiber internet, sunrise swims, and late-night California calls—proof that beauty and performance can coexist.
Shetland & Fair Isle – Endurance Engineering
Storms forged antifragility. Redundancy wasn’t paranoia—it was professionalism.
Gibraltar & Andalusia – Compact Efficiency
Mediterranean mornings, California evenings. The Rock as a reliable base camp.
The Stealth Working Playbook
Four pillars, seven phases, one aim: make results your signature.
Four Pillars
- Professional Invisibility—Consistency that makes location irrelevant.
- System Redundancy—Backups for power, internet, and process.
- Information Control—Expectation-setting without oversharing.
- Performance Amplification—Use freedom to raise the bar.
Practical Frameworks
Reverse Bucket List
List what you’re done chasing. Reclaim attention for what matters.
The Happiness Equation
H = Presence − (Noise × Wanting). Subtract what steals attention.
Emotional Jujitsu
Use triggers as pivots. Name → Neutralize → Navigate.
The Executive Decision
Decide once, implement daily: outputs over optics, always.
“Location independence isn’t deception—it’s evolution.”
“Time zones aren’t obstacles; they’re levers.”
“In poker and in work: results don’t bluff.”
About Ed
Adventurer, educator, philosopher. Taught English to Afghan Special Forces, lectured aboard the Queen Mary 2, and learned to read the world like a map—one crossing, one choice at a time.
Keywords: Authenticity • Resilience • Happiness • Presence • Mindful Wandering
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Reflection Prompt — What would you do with two extra hours every morning?
Write your Reverse Bucket List. Name three pursuits you’re done chasing. Reinvest that time in presence, craft, or recovery.