Post-Nomad

Romanticizing escape from mundanity

Making peace with modern life

Jan 22 • Russell Max Simon

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December 2025

The algorithms are closing in

Has the whole world lost the plot, or am I just entering my Luddite phase?

Dec 30, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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No one thinks they're the bad guy

My mental model for understanding why things happen in the world

Dec 26, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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Whittling my life down to fifty books

Selling the New Hampshire farmhouse and choosing what mattered enough to cross the ocean

Dec 15, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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November 2025

The indefinite alienation of expat life

Cultural divides never quite close

Nov 15, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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Projecting 13a in Rumney

This journey ends in failure

Nov 9, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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October 2025

A breakup focused me like never before

My Dawn Wall is a climbing ledge in New Hampshire

Oct 23, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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The difference between Barcelona and the Bay Area

Tech culture's "Aboutness" vs. a city built for serendipity

Oct 13, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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The most revolutionary, anti-capitalist act right now

Big business, social media, and tech are combining to sow division throughout the world—and rob us of our autonomy in the process.

Oct 3, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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September 2025

Crying on the streets of Barcelona

I think I can say this without rose-colored glasses

Sep 24, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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I'm in a relationship with climbing

It's always there when everything else falls apart

Sep 18, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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What matters when everything feels fragile

Barcelona and the twilight before a cataclysm

Sep 7, 2025 • Russell Max Simon

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