Hi, friends.

Fighting the nostalgia this week. Yesterday marks T-minus one month until I fly home to the beach for Christmas... and that means this Berlin-based chapter of my future autobiography will be done-zo. In January, I'll get off the plane in London. 

Yes, friends, yes. It's a time for reflection and nostalgia and--as soon as the Christmas markets open next week--a f*ckton of glühwein.

I'm already in the mood to like, only ask people about their holiday travel plans and nothing else. And, only partially due to my own plans, I now totally believe that the holidays are also actually a really clutch time for big life/career moves.

Greetings from Lisbon.

Oh, sweet Portugal. I cannot even explain to you how happy I am to see some sunshine and hear the sound of seagulls. I'm hanging out at this h-u-g-e tech conference (53,000 attendees) called Web Summit all week long and things are going fabulously so far.

In my ongoing pursuit to give you people the best job search tips and tricks on the planet, I find it really useful to stay hyperconnected to what's happening with the world's most awesome startups and technology companies.

After all: In order to get hired by the world's most interesting companies, one must be able to name the world's most interesting companies. Never underestimate the value of keeping your finger on the pulse, feel me?

Hi friends,

Thanks for all your kind and enthusiastic notes about my big news. The convenient thing about us hanging out via email like this is that we get to keep kicking it all over the world. I think that's pretty sweet.

Speaking of which, I'm in Lisbon for all of next week! Anybody else going to Web Summit? It's the biggest tech conference in Europe, if not the world. Will try to be good about Snapchatting, particularly while I drink port wine and watch the election at 4AM.

For today, I'd like to address this question that I seem to keep getting in my inbox. It goes a little something like this: 

Hi friends,

I have some pretty big news to share today. And that news is this:

I'm moving to London in January.

--RECORD SCREECH, BACKSTORY, LET'S GO--

Over the past year, I have been quietly assembling a pile of paperwork to apply for something the UK calls the Exceptional Talent (Tech) Visa.

As far as immigration is concerned, it's effectively a golden ticket. I can work however and wherever I please, without restriction.

Hi Friends,

I'm in London. Again. Second time in as many weeks.

Surprising no one: I'm currently posted up at the Shoreditch House bar, eating free Mike n' Ikes and answering emails.

I'm just in town for about 36 hours this time, because I'm giving a ~talk~ at a ~conference~ tomorrow. It's a talk about my day job!

Longtime readers know that I spend my days working as a communications advisor for UX, design, and digital product teams.

To kind of explain: Someone, somewhere, in some room, had to decide to call a Facebook status update a "status update." And call a newsfeed a "newsfeed." I'm that person.