I am a digital nomad who sold everything to travel forever, AMA
My partner and I sold almost everything we owned and left the UK in March 2010 to travel permanently. We fund our travels …
Digital NomadArticles
The best articles, stories, and big ideas about digital nomads, remote work, and the future of work from across the web, sorted chronologically. Since 2015, we've curated 5192 articles, written by 5666 authors from 1228 publishers.
I want to be a digital nomad but the fear of being lonely is holding me back
What do you all do to prevent loneliness if you are a digital nomad on your own? Do you go to meet-ups and such? I would …
Digital NomadZen Habits
Living Lightly with the One-Bag Lifestyle
I’ve been on a handful of long trips this year and in recent years, and on all those trips, I lived out of a small bag. …
Gear TravelFleximize
The Careers of the Founders
How did the greatest entrepreneurs start out? What were their biggest successes? What failures did they have to overcome …
CareerThe Atlantic
The After-Work Email Quandary
People complain about checking their inboxes when they’re out of the office, but some of them kind of enjoy it too.
WorkWandering Earl
Why I Made a List of Memorable Life Experiences This Morning
I wrote the above list because I genuinely wanted to see if the experiences I’ve been through have been sufficiently …
LifeMedium
How to travel the world and get companies to pay for it
Do the work first. Create the following and the audience first. Prove your value first. Demonstrate your understanding of an …
TravelMedium
Why Coworking Spaces Simply Work
If you feel like more people these days work for themselves than ever than you are right. More and more people are becoming …
CoworkingWhat is the main reason preventing you from becoming a digital nomad?
For those who follow this sub [Digital Nomads], but haven’t actually made the leap yet, I’m curious – what …
Digital NomadRefuga
Are digital nomads one of the first signs of post-materialism?
Post-materialism is described by philosophers, socialists and others as a “the transformation of individual values from …
Digital NomadHow do you stay healthy on the road?
Constantly traveling the world for conferences and in the last 6 months especially have started gaining way too much weight. …
HealthHarvard Business Review
Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others
Successful remote work is based on three core principles: communication, coordination, and culture. Broadly speaking, …
Remote WorkWTF?
Distributed Teams — the Next Big Economic Sea-Change?
There’s plenty of information available on why distributed teams and working-from-home, is better for the mental and …
Remote WorkMashable
What freelancers should know about liability and their assets
This on-demand economy has major implications for workers, who now bear full responsibility for things once handled by an …
FreelanceBecomeNomad
A case study of my digital nomad lifestyle Rules
This article is personal, since it relates to specific rules I follow while living my digital nomad life. In a way, those …
Digital NomadZach Holman
Remote-First vs. Remote-Friendly
We’re kind of in the surly teenager phase of remote work right now. A lot of companies are using tools like Slack, …
Remote WorkMedium
Resist and Thrive
This is a talk about what happens when a culture is driven by the need for money to make more money.
Life WorkBBC
Why we should stop worrying about our wandering minds
Daydreaming has a bad reputation, but neuroscientists are beginning to realise that a wandering mind is not only typical – it …
LifeLegatum Institute
The 2015 Legatum Prosperity Index
Is a nation’s prosperity defined solely by its GDP? Prosperity is more than just the accumulation of material wealth, …
LifeThe Guardian
Put your life into flight mode
It wasn’t overly surprising, really, to learn from two recent psychology studies that being “on call” is …
LifeThe Wall Street Journal
At Work - Is Telecommuting The Way to Go?
A team of social scientists recently set out to review the research on telecommuting, in hopes of finding out once and for …
Remote WorkNeil Brown
Law, jurisdiction and the digital nomad [PDF]
Free movement is a central notion of the European community, and the Internet provides the capability for individuals to live …
Digital NomadFast Company
How Remote Work Policies Can Backfire
The benefits of remote work are obvious—and, to many employers, growing: time saved on commutes, flexibility for employees, …
Remote WorkVanity Fair
The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today
In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and …
TravelFor those of you who have been to Thailand, what was your cost of living and what would you have done differently?
I will be in Thailand this February. This is my first “long-term” travel (three months)… Here’s a …
Digital Nomad TravelThe Atlantic
Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work
The paradox of the American Dream: The best cities to get ahead are often the most expensive places to live, and the most …
Life WorkHacker News
How do I stop comparing myself to others?
I always have this problem of feeling inadequate. I’m a junior CS student at a decent but not great school. Some of my …
LifeThe Atlantic
Coliving: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?
In a new model of living, residents will have their own “microunits” built around a shared living space for …
LifeMedium
Reconsider
Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to …
LifeWill be starting my journey as a DN this February, I'm looking for some guidance
I haven’t been much of anywhere in my lifetime and don’t have much experience with travel. I’m looking for …
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