Category: Go Nomad
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Selling Everything to Become Digital Nomads: Intro
(a continuation of the Giving up the Script series) We’d sold our house. Now we had to sell everything in it to become digital nomads. We’d been living together since 2009 and had never done a serious purge. Though we’d moved several times, Amazon always paid to pack everything up and unpack it again. We put such little effort…
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Giving Up the Script: Selling our House to become Digital Nomads
We were done living lives crowded into the corners of Saturdays and Sundays. But how exactly were we going to disentangle ourselves from the script and become digital nomads? What kind of effort was it going to take write our own plot line through long term travel? Between September 2014 and September 2015, we sued someone to get…
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Giving Up the Script: The Lead Up
On a Sunday afternoon, we stood on the side of a road above the ocean. We didn’t glance at the Camps Bay houses spread out below us, nor the sea beyond them, though I’m sure we must have been shading our eyes, for at a certain time in the South African summer afternoon, the ocean turns…
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2016 Digital Nomad Toolkit – The Luxpats
As Sarah and I work to launch Nomadica and transition to a digital nomad lifestyle, we’re finding a ton of tools designed to make it easier to run a business from the road. A handful of them have become essential to our daily routines, and we share them with you here. This list may change and evolve over time, and…
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Giving Up the Script: Intro
A few months ago we sold our house, our belongings, and our loyalty to something I have begun to call The Script. David and I are not particularly radical people. We don’t have ascetic tendencies, we appreciate family and security as much as the next couple, and we come from solid middle class families. How…
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Coworking in the Tavern of the Seas
Cape Town has long been a destination on many travelers’ bucket lists. Named the best place in the world to visit by The New York Times and Telegraph in 2014 for its picturesque views of Table Mountain and Lions Head, Big-5 game parks within a few hours’ drive, and a peninsula peppered with semi-private beaches,…
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Poor Customer Experience is a Design Problem
Yesterday, I had the conversation below with a Telkom customer service agent. I learned many things from this conversation, including that if you ever want to look deranged, all you have to do is laugh hysterically at the same time that your eyeball is twitching uncontrollably. Me: Hello, you just installed my internet yesterday but…