Having just returned from our annual family skiing trip, I find myself once again struck by a paradox: six hours a day on the slopes leaves your legs aching and your lungs burning, yet you come back to the office not depleted but genuinely recharged. The physical exhaustion is real, but the cognitive renewal is…

Over 18 years. That's how long I've called Barcelona home—longer than I've lived anywhere else in my adult life. For someone whose career spanned countries like Germany, France, Singapore and Australia, this wasn't the script I imagined. Like many globally mobile professionals, I spent my early career chasing the next opportunity, the next horizon. Each…

My father-in-law recently shared Peter Godwin’s memoir “Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars” with me. Like my father-in-law, who grew up in Zimbabwe before migrating to Australia, Godwin is intimately familiar with the peculiar grief of belonging to multiple places and none fully. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, educated in England,…