The rise of the digital nomad started in the early 2000’s with the spread of wifi internet, massive growth of tech startups, and low-cost ease of travel.

Since then — for better or for worse — it has evolved quite a bit…

There was the late 2000’s with the release of Tim Ferris’s bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek — which introduced how to outsource your most time-consuming tasks to low-cost admins in SE Asia. Coupled with living on a smaller budget and using the internet for leverage — followers of the book became the next wave of DNs…

However, this mostly…

Surf influencers — the word is known worldwide — from the beaches of Bali to the mountains of Wyoming.

You can find influencers of every age and preference these days — for every different point of view, on any topic…

• Organic vs GMO
• Longboard vs shortboard
• Vegan vs carnivore

……I guess Newton’s 3rd law applies to diet as well as physics.

I recently had a friend in Indonesia ask me why there aren’t any Indonesian’s on the WSL’s World Championship Tour. I had to think for a minute but it seemed like a good question. …

Ok ‘life’ is a bit of an overstatement…

But podcasts are definitely ruining my productivity.

What started out as a fresh new stream of ideas and intellectual conversation has morphed into … well something no different than the news.

Here are the notifications I woke up to on April 28th…

• 3hr 33min — Eric Weinstein The Portal
• 3hr 02min — The Joe Rogan Experience
• 1hr 07min — Andrew Yang
• 20min — Evan You Vue code walkthrough

…that’s 8hrs of podcasts!

Now, you don’t have to listen to everything, especially in one day, and of course I didn’t. But I do…

Bali needs more than just our prayers right now…

As the entire world deals with the implications of COVID-19, the effects have different consequences for different parts of the world.

For much of the world living on less than a dollar per day — there is no safety net …

Currently, I’m on the east coast of Bali in a town called Keramas — well-known for it’s world-class wave that’s been featured on the World Championship Tour.

Outside of its surf allure — Keramas and the surrounding villages are where some expats still see flickers of ‘the Bali of old’…

Times up — I’m choosing to work independently now.

I started to freelance back in 2013 when I first learned to code. It was the allure of freedom, travel, and being my own boss — you know everything you read in the 4 Hour Work Week that made it seem like the dream lifestyle.

And for many years it really was the dream…

I had a unique path you can read about on my website Travel Developer.

For the past 7 years, I’ve worked and lived throughout Central America, Bali, Australia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Morocco, South Africa, France, Portugal…

The year’s 2020.

There are no flying cars, no people that live forever, no world peace.

There are people who repeatedly take pictures of themselves to increase their social status, people become famous by being…well…famous, humans are trashing the planet and collapsing ecosystems, tv personalities have become government officials, and if you’re lucky — you get to go to your loved ones funeral via video chat.

Just to get it out of the way — no my Nana did not die of Coronavirus. …

In 2013, a few years after my college graduation, I decided to take a road trip around the continental US.

It was a bit sporadic — only a week after I had come back from a trip to Costa Rica — and I didn’t really have a plan.

I simply packed up a week's worth of clothes, plenty of water and granola bars, and went on my way…

Little did I know, this decision to jump in my Tonka toy of a Toyota Scion and live out of my car for the next 3 months would be one of the…

Bali, Indonesia — June 29th & 30th, 2019: Running Remote is the world’s biggest Remote Work conference where remote team building activities are shared from the top remote companies in the world.

The two-day conference will be held at the Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua, a lavish 5-star beachfront resort with gorgeously landscaped pools & gardens against an immaculate stretch of white sand bordering the Indian Ocean.