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Re: The Pains of a Digital Nomad

Gates VP — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:29:03 -0000

Hey Nick;

I assume you're familiar with 4-hour workweek. Sounds like you're using EarthClassMail.

I'm slowly moving to the digital life myself. Much of my work is accessible from a web dashboard even my mailbox is there now. Appointments & e-mail move to Google, Wetpaint is now my personal notebook (instead of a Moleskin or Blueline).

My filing cabinet is being scanned into PDFs, and we've already converted much of the mail to electronic statements. My Audio / Video collection is slowly being digitized, soon it will be backed up on a Windows Home Server, which will in turn be backed up a removable drive and "to the cloud".

I'm sure that VMs of my development machine will follow. Soon, the "working machine" will be just any machine to which I can download the VM image.

I'm not quite the nomad you are, but I can see making much of my life mobile. I'd personally love to only need to be in the office a few days / week. You're on the leading edge, but soon the world will see an explosion of "mobile knowledge workers". Everything will be replicated "from the cloud" and you'll be able to find the "oversight-free" individuals by checking your LinkedIn account.

OK, maybe it won't be all that, but it will be exciting to see :)

Re: The Pains of a Digital Nomad

Manogr — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:08:06 -0000

Very nice post Nick... as a travel agent and digital passionate I am really interested in that kind of posts! I would really like if you can keep us updated with various details on your digital nomad lifestyle.
Keep the posts coming!

Re: The Pains of a Digital Nomad

Jamie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:02:47 -0000

This sounds awesome even you aren't traveling long distances.

Re: The Pains of a Digital Nomad

Sachin Rekhi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:50:45 -0000

Make sure to check out Anywhere.FM (http://www.anywhere.fm) for moving your entire music collection to the cloud :)

Sachin

Re: The Pains of a Digital Nomad

Ken Burbary — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:30:14 -0000

Hi Nick. Great post. What cloud service are you using? Have you moved all of your blogs/sites over to the cloud now too? Curious to hear more about how trivial/painful the experience has been.

Re: The Pains of a Digital Nomad

dbrowell — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:21:46 -0000

Wow... Really takes the notion to the extreme in testing whether you really can be anywhere and be connected, productive. But it will be interesting when your experiment is done and you can look back on that period of life and see whether you should really be anywhere and everywhere connected and productive, or if there's an advantage to being stationary, anywhere (be that Appalachia or NYC).

d