Wellness festivals are the new music festivals
Plus: Hong Kong’s identity crisis
TRAVEL
🧘 Wellness festivals are the new music festivals
From silent retreats to sound baths, wellness festivals are trading headliners for healing—are they the next big future of travel draw?
Caitlin Gunther for Condé Nast Traveler
GEOPOLITICS
🕰️ The vanishing world of British Hong Kong
As the last echoes of colonial rule fade, Hong Kong’s struggle for identity is a battle between nostalgia, resistance, and an uncertain future.
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho for Guernica
NOMAD LIFESTYLE
🛍️ How to buy anything, anywhere
Bangalore’s butchers take orders by phone, in Shenzhen, chicken sandwiches are sold on viral livestreams, and fish via Whatsapp in Colombia. The future of commerce is local, unpredictable, and shaped by the art of the hustle.
Danny Makki for Rest of World
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NOMAD LIFESTYLE
🪦 Is culture dying?
Shared norms and cultural traditions have largely given way to curated individualist identities. What happens when collective meaning starts to fade?
Joshua Rothman for The New Yorker
Born and raised in Japan, but forever a foreigner—what happens when the only home you’ve ever known doesn’t fully accept you? For these lifelong residents, identity is a negotiation between culture, language, and the limits of belonging.
Takashii on YouTube
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Excited to see the the Takashii video shared this week! I've been watching his channel for a bit, and that video in particular had some really interesting conversations!
Thanks for the Guernica piece, I just landed in Hong Kong for the first time. Immediately upon arrival, you feel the push and pull of the future vs. the past. I've been seeking out the old stuff, which I love, cha chaan tengs and the architecture of older neighborhoods with buildings covered in tile, but admittedly, I haven't given much thought to the future. It's so futuristic already. But now I want to get my hands on that anthology to try and understand where those who know it, think it's headed.