Thierry Damiba

Thierry Damiba
A studio by a window, painted in the light of the current hour. Each object in the room opens a part of the site. PURGATORIO THIERRY DAMIBA Can you tracemy route?click to play
Tools for delegated thought The central question is not whether to delegate. It is how delegation accumulates debt.

Where I have worked: Maryland, PowerConnections, DHS, Qdrant, Arcade.

Open the closetShow me a boring siteFor agents

Where I have been

  • San FranciscoHome now.
  • Los AngelesThe second-largest city in the US.
  • Colorado Springs and Ward, ColoradoPikes Peak in one, over 9,000 feet up in the other.
  • Mammoth CaveThe longest known cave system on Earth.
  • Baltimore, DC, and AnnapolisBaltimore is where I moved from Ivory Coast, in 2000.
  • MiamiThe only major US city founded by a woman, Julia Tuttle.
  • Gran CanariaNicknamed a continent in miniature.
  • Burkina FasoWhere I'm from. Home of Faso Dan Fani.
  • TogoWhere I was born.
  • Vancouver
  • San Diego
  • Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal
  • FranceMy great-grandfather was from France.
  • The Netherlands
  • Serbia
  • Morocco
  • Mali
  • Benin
  • Nigeria
  • Ivory CoastWhere I grew up.
  • GhanaFirst in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence, in 1957.
  • JapanNihon means the origin of the sun.
  • New ZealandThe first country where women won the vote, in 1893.

The closet

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Trace my route

a map game

Five clues from my life.

For each one, put a pin on the map where you think it is. Land within 600 km and you get a passport stamp.

Thierry Damiba

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