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For my own startup. I quit my corporate life and took a year to tour New Zealand while slowly spinning up/planning everything. More or less stereotypical life-crisis stuff. Obligatory Medium post: https://medium.com/@TylerLastovich/pressing-shuffle-on-life-...

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I found this quote quite amusing from your article:

> I moved from staying in AirBnB’s to hostels and learned so much from travelers living outside of our money-culture

I generally prefer to stay in hostels, and even lived in one in Wellington for a year. I find it strange to be descried as "living outside money-culture". I guess a lot of people in the working holiday/backpacker community are though; working to live, rather than living to work.

A year in a hostel is impressive! In NZ it blew my mind how many people lived very happy lives yet almost never mentioned money, career trajectories, and to a large extent–the internet. I found this really refreshing as I had never been exposed to that kind of thinking before, the polar opposite of startup culture in the US. I specifically remember staying with a group of fruit pickers that were some of the happiest people I have ever met, even though none of them had more than a thousand dollars in the bank.

You don't look quite midlife and going travelling a year seems quite a sensible thing to do. Americans seem to regard a year off as more of a crisis than the rest of the world where it's kind of normal.

Oh. I could've written the same post, I am just before buying a ticket somewhere. Would love to get in touch, if that's possible.

Sure, feel free to message me at tyler(at)lastovich.me.

great to know I can have my life crisis here in NZ :)

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