Today we speak with Geo Snelling. Geo lives in New Zealand with his family. He works at the confluence of art and software engineering in the visual effects industry. He is a traveler and a writer in his spare time.
He began his career working for an economic consulting company, and traveled to over 65 remote countries collecting economic data.
We interview Geo and read his story To Saipan, From Saipan, set in the time of his extensive travels.
The story is about travel, diving and curious twists of fate.
From the show:
“…we would go abroad individually to different corners of the globe and traverse through different countries and spend an inordinate amount of time in grocery stores, utilities companies, speaking with realtors, if there were such a thing in the country you're in, just getting a swath of prices…”
“…I'm an American … the idea that capitalism and market forces balancing each other out and they ebb and flow and everything's okay. It's arguable, maybe it works when you're talking just about the money or businesses, but I just have never believed that it works when it comes to the environment. I think that that's been proven again and again and again…”
“…Another fun one would be one where I rail against planned obsolescence. I went out and I bought a 50-year-old lawnmower. It's fantastic. I wrote that as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek article, but it really resonated with a lot of people…”
Stories: Geo Snelling. To Saipan From Saipan