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I am back struggling with words, trying to put together a short 1,500 word “policy fora”-article on scalability and climate change mitigation options. In theory, it should be simple. In reality, it never is and I guess that is part of the beauty of this profession, that everything must always be carved out with some measure of frustration and sense of one’s own intellectual worthlessness.

Otherwise, I am good. It has been an unusual winter break, equal part hard work and equal part paradise vacation. My first lecture this semester will be on Thursday, directly after our night flight from Bangkok. But with DNA Coffee, anything is possible I guess :-)

Conrad Rangali

Back in those days I had Facebook and created the album “Honeymoon? No, it is more of a lifestyle” to try capture some of the unbelievable beauty of this atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Many years later in Umeå, I realize that there is not a single picture of Rangali here on Rawls & Me so I thought it could be worth a retroactive post. Like with Conrad Koh Samui, later devaluations of the Hilton programme have made this place unavailable for everyone except the most hardened road warriors or millionaires...