Travel tips and techniques, including: - How to give a successful bribe - How to jump from a moving train - The most likely way you will die - What to do if you have no money - Why you should take up smoking - Why it’s great to be an American - Negotiating with criminals Bio: Mike has spent time in approximately 25% of the world’s countries. He has been held up at gunpoint three times, interrogated for drug smuggling, rented a tank, worked on an opium poppy plantation, hung out with war criminals, and been offered enlistment in one rebel army.
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- 10 Lessons I Learned from Starting Companies in a Downturn — Francine Hardaway
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- Always the Next Human — Quinn Norton
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