Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

A collection of stories from my travels and experiences as an American expat living abroad.

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Dec 18, 2018

Avuncular

I can’t quite remember the first time I heard it, nor why I was so drawn to it initially, but one of my favorite words has always been…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Nov 1, 2018

(Blank) You India

I moved back to the United States in June 2018 after nearly 6.5 years in India. If you’re more inclined to accuracy, I was a…

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Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Sep 17, 2018

A Pretty Good Man Speech

I spent this past weekend in the New York city area for my brother Peter’s wedding, in which I had the honor and privilege of serving as the Best Man. (The title of this post is a nod to Jerry Seinfeld’s joke about this title: “I was the best man to a wedding one time, that was pretty…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

May 31, 2018

Revisiting Sammaan

I moved to India in February 2012 in order to head up the manifold communications activities for Project Sammaan, an initiative born out of a year-long ethnographic study of sanitation practices and habits of those in India’s urban slums and seeking to holistically reimagine the user experience…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Apr 3, 2018

Two Books That Changed My Life

I recently finished a project the company I work for, Quicksand, had undertaken around improving the user…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Mar 24, 2018

Six Years in India

Though short of Heinrich Harrer’s “Seven Years in Tibet”, my six years in India have been an incredible, transformative…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Oct 1, 2017

The Big Crick

I moved overseas in May 2010, first to Cambodia and then to India, with months-long sojourns throughout Europe and Central America…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Aug 15, 2017

After the Fire: One Year On

One year ago today, I blew myself up in a bonfire-gone-wrong, resulting in second and third degree burns that chewed up more than a quarter of my skin and earned me a two week stay in a burn-cum-trauma unit that kicked off the start of a healing process that continues today.

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Jul 28, 2017

Perception vs. Reality

The work that I am fortunate enough to be a part of at Quicksand often takes me to places that are not only…

Kevin Shane in Living the Dream by Kevin Shane

Apr 10, 2017

Quicksand’s 2017 Offsite: Goa, India

Every year the Quicksand team heads off for a few days to regroup, catch-up, and discuss the year that was whilst planning the year/years to come. Really a working vacation (workcation?), it’s a mix of meetings and break-out sessions to strategize and collectively…

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