Paul Salopek: preference

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…That’s amazing. Now, where do you think your supply chain is most vulnerable? I travel a great deal. Sometimes I run out of things, or they break. Then I have to get a new one. What’s the biggest supply chain problem you have? I try, Tyler, to live off the local economy as much as possible, not out of any sense of intellectual virtue or economic virtue, but simply because I have to. I’m walking, and everything that I need to use, I have to carry on my back. My supply chain — I keep it as short as possible. It’s the local market. That includes everything from notepads to socks and everything in between. Probably the most tenuous line of supply would be, maybe, electronics for me to do my job. A decent lightweight laptop that has a lifespan of a few years, given the bangs that it gets in a backpack while walking across continents, electronics configured to do media work would be the most dicey cargo that I carry. But pretty much 99 percent of the rest is local economy. You do all this with a single backpack?…

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