I was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Australia when I was ten. When you move countries, you carry your culture with you: what counts as a good decision, the stories that shaped how you see the world. You also pick things up. New assumptions, new ways of doing things. That tension between what you bring and what you absorb is where my interest in cultural heritage started. Scotland, a decade later, sharpened it. It's hard to walk through Edinburgh without thinking about it. Lately I think more about where that heritage comes from. My family’s history in Zimbabwe, the tribal history further back. There are limited records, but the knowledge spans generations. Some of it has been forgotten. Whether any of it can be recovered is something I keep coming back to. The same questions show up in stories I’m drawn to. [Jiro Dreams of Sushi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/) is about a father passing a craft tradition to his sons with an intensity that only makes sense if you understand what that craft represents culturally. It’s not just sushi. [Children of Men](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/?ref_=ls_t_5) is about what happens when humanity loses its future, and the first thing to go is the will to preserve anything at all. The heritage of an entire species just stops mattering. [Paradise Season 1, Episode 7](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27444205/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_paradi) is similar territory: everything is falling apart and someone has to decide what to protect and what to let go. [[Research]] | [[Entrepreneurship]] | [[Governance]] | [[Journey]] | [[Connect]]