Travel Hacking
Points, routes and smart decisions that make ambitious travel go further.
Martyn BlythinNotes from a curious life
I write to make
sense of things.
Hello, I’m Martyn. This is where I think in public about travel, travel hacking, data culture, leadership, better living—and whatever connects them.
Why this site?Latest writing
Longer thoughts, kept here and shared elsewhere.
Why keep a personal site in the age of feeds?
Social networks are useful for distribution. They are a poor substitute for a home. This is why I’m making one of my own.
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What travel teaches that data cannot
Numbers can describe a place with precision. Being there reveals the texture that never made it into the spreadsheet.
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Leadership is what remains when authority leaves the room
Job titles can make people comply. Leadership is revealed by what continues when nobody has to follow.
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Browse all writing Recurring interests
A few threads I keep pulling.
Data Culture
How organisations use numbers, build trust and make better decisions.
Leadership
Creating clarity, growing judgement and helping people do their best work.
Better Living
Habits, experiments and ideas for becoming a little more deliberate.
About this place
(EST. 2026)
A home for ideas before they become certainties.
I made this site to own my words and let them compound. Some pieces are considered essays; others are field notes, questions, or working theories. All of them are open to revision.
If something here makes you think, disagree, or see an old problem differently, I’d genuinely like to hear from you.
Write to me ↗Right now
What I’m reading, exploring and paying attention to at the moment.
My /now page