Call me Mr Joosh.
A human prototype built for transit.Spine of a Sherpa, mind of a flight schedule.He doesn't live anywhere. He lives between.
Travel writing from a hundred-odd countries, written on the way through. Islands, citadels, tapas bars and the occasional first-class suite.
Departures
Dubai--:--The atlas
Every dispatch plotted against home base. Select a pin to read the story behind it.
6 countries on this chart so far. Suite 2A, somewhere over the Gulf, does not appear on any map.
Dispatches
Every travel piece so far, newest first.
Remember Your Last Things
Stari Grad, island of Hvar. July 2026.
The City That Kept Adding Floors
Erbil, Day Two
The Interrupted Civilisation
Explaining Iraq to an alien
The Town That Kept Its Teeth
Forty-five minutes from Madrid, where history is not preserved so much as quietly reused.
The Beautiful Noise
Explaining Madrid to an alien
An Evening at Boughton House
Where England Learnt to Speak French
Turning Japanese
Trial by Steam, Ice and Dignity.
First Class Behaviour
Uncle Monty from Suite 2A
Precision and Grace
Explaining Japan to an alien
Sumba
The Island I Almost Didn't Tell You About...
Sailing the Komodo Islands
Dragons, Volcanoes, and Pink Sand
Ginza Dispatch
Ginza doesn’t whisper elegance, it sings it in surround sound.
Between flights
Essays on power, technology and the shape of the world, mostly written in airport lounges.
Tehran's Pair of Twos
Iran is losing the war and still holding the table. How a weak hand, a shut strait and a high pain threshold add up to leverage, and why the card is depreciating every week it stays on the felt.
The Human Need for Coherence
We need the world to make sense more than we need to be right about it.
The Tenant Superpower
America still owns the blade. It increasingly needs permission to use the hilt, the ground, and the rulebook.
The Cognitive Revolution, Revisited
Seven months ago I argued AI was the steepest productivity curve in human history. Here's what the evidence has done to that claim.
The Cognitive Revolution
Why AI Marks the Steepest Curve in Human History
The Empire Strikes Back
A Thought Experiment in Historical Memory
- Known as
- Mr Joosh
- Real name
- Withheld for now
- Base
- Dubai, a move Emirates called "operationally sensible"
- Countries
- A hundred and counting
- Runs on
- Airport sushi and tier miles
- Occupation
- Classified matters
- Last seen
- Stari Grad
The file is thin on purpose. The stories are not.
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