Global Traveler (23 countries) + Expatriate (SE Asia) + Book Author + Sleuth-Blogger ... who's adept at "Connecting Most Of The Dots"; including those that typically get greyed out.
I've lived outside the Western World for many years; gifting me the capacity to observe (and analyze) as an "Outsider Looking In".
Until recently a Licensed Engineer [now retired] I hold a Masters Degree (UK) in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), as well as other advanced engineering certificates.
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." ~ Mark Twain
"The evil that we know, is best." ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
"Truths kindle light for truths." ~ Lucretius