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Fernando was born in Santiago de Chile, grew up in Sydney, currently lives in London, and has called Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo home along the way.

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	No Missing Tools: Creativity In An Age Of Abundance 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This Week I Quit Dreaming About Internet Radio

For more than twenty years, since I left London for the first time back in 2003, I’ve had “start an internet radio station” on my to-do list. The shape of that to-do list – paper or digital, app or freeform – has changed many times since then. But that item has remained, carried over from year to year. An internet radio station. Focused on jazz music. Broadcasting around the world.

Nothing else has

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Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity

by Byung-Chul Han

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Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization

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