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Unhinged: Curiosity as Ambition — NPC #788

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Curiosity means “the world is here to be explored”. By awakening curiosity, I changed my game. It was no longer a rat race, it became an open world MMORPG.

On February 12th, 2020, I boarded a flight from London to my childhood home in Puerto Rico. My partner and I had sold almost everything we owned (not much) and had an empty schedule ahead of us. It would be 6-9 months of exploration after a decade of standard career development. What I learned over the next year and a half was invaluable. The experiences, although mundane, changed the course of my life and have allowed me to connect with a new form of ambition: unhinged curiosity. https://twitter.com/AbstractFairy/status/1505471511976726534?s=20&t=U0kyt8rhZkGq3iWx9pIbSA Tripped My partner and

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