The Death of the Digital Nomad

My company allows short-term work from anywhere. I have taken advantage of it twice now, and I'm currently packing my bags for a third. Each trip one full month in another country.

As long as my company has this policy I will be at my company. This policy is amazing. Full stop. I thought I needed a sabbatical, I actually just needed this.

I feel just as a productive if not more productive while on these work-cations. I come back energized about life and my job.

I went almost 7 years without having a vacation where I returning thinking "wow, i feel refreshed and I want to go home". These trips actually, finally, solved this. I'm no longer feeling burnt out and that is incredible.

So, if any employers are reading this.. take note.

I never fully got how people actually got work done, at least not at the level of intensity and hours needed for an early stage startup, while working out of a coffee shop on a small laptop on crappy internet across the globe. Sure maybe if you're running a dropshipping company of one or doing a crypto rugpull, but if you have to build a product, sell, get on calls with customers, coordinate and motivate a team, hire.. etc. how do you do all of that from a small coffee shop in Indonesia or from your hostel?

It feels like a LARP at best.

The page keeps crashing for me.

Besides economic pressures, I think that it's hard to be productive while on the move. Accomodation with a good desk and fast internet are rare. Good internet cafes are also rare. Taking calls in public is not nice.

I am not constrained by location, but home is where my monitor is.