Business
Essential Digital Nomad Electronic, Sleep, Fitness & Travel Gear (October 2020)
I’ve been living abroad for more than two years out of a 32L backpack and a carry on suitcase. Many people have asked me what they should think about buying when embarking on long-term travel so I’ve consolidated my favorite items for living and traveling as a digital nomad. Many of the recommendation lists online ... Read more
Aspiration, Meaning, & The Traps of Ambition (A Book Review of Agnes Callard’s Aspiration)
To others, I made a bold decision to quit my job and chart a different course in 2017. Yet in my own experience of the event, there was no singular moment or decision made. This disconnect between my own experience and the narrative of bold all-or-nothing leaps has mystified me and driven a lot of ... Read more
Hustle Traps: Ten Guaranteed Paths To Burnout For The Self-Employed Creator
Starting your own business is a secret dream of many and with the emergence of more clear paths to make money online, many knowledge workers are deciding to test the waters of self-employment and entrepreneurship. In making such a leap many people hope to increase the amount of freedom and fulfilment they have with their ... Read more
Spaceship You: How To Understand Who You Are as a Remote Worker
The following is a guest post from Artur Piszek, founder of Deliberate Internet. He has been a remote worker for the last five years. This October, I will have 5 years of Remote Work experience. For the past 4, I have been sharing the journey with my liveaboard colleague and wife – Maria. We both ... Read more
The best advice on working remotely your boss doesn’t want you to see
During the initial months of the Covid crisis you were bombarded with tips about how to optimize your day while working online and how to be more effective than ever while multi-tasking zoom meetings, slack chats and conference calls. For many, working remotely is unsettling. They start questioning their relationship with work, worry about how ... Read more
Managing Millennials & Other Misinformation On Generations at Work
Over the past few years, many people have asked me what I though about ““how do you manage millennials in the workforce?” This is the kind of question that throws me into a fit of sadness about the modern state of work. The problem is the question itself. A better question would be to start ... Read more
Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory
Our imagination about what happens in the business world has become disconnected with reality and it all starts with an accepted narrative about the unstoppable power of Fredrick Taylor’s ideas The narrative goes like this: Fredrick Taylor introduced managers to analytical methods and tools that helped them to dramatically improve productivity; however these efforts also ... Read more
Questions About The Future Of Work
The US has lost 38 million jobs as of May 23rd, 2020. Some of those may come back. Many will not. Going into 2021, the US will likely have the highest unemployment rate in the last 100 years. I’ve written quite a bit about the fragile labor economy and believe the gaps I’ve written about ... Read more
Matt Mullenweg’s & Automattic’s Five Levels Of Remote Work
Remote work is poorly understood and for good reason. What most people have experienced is merely being “allowed” to work remotely on occasion, having to stay home with someone sick in the family, logging in while traveling or waiting for the cable guy to install internet. While I am a fan of remote working I ... Read more
Hamsternomics: Printing Money, The Economy & Work Beliefs
Essay by Paul Millerd & Ryan Borker Look at this cute little guy: Right now, as citizens of the United States we may become that hamster. Near term, we don’t really have a choice. Long term, we might have a choice. A lot of people have asked us what printing money means. Like, what actually ... Read more