Minimalist adventurer. Perhaps the only globetrotting explorer who cares about fashion these days???
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2012 is the year I permanently start living outside of the box

Or as my favorite band puts it, out of the jar:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThi78NzKC8

I have a bit of money saved up. I am about to quit my job, thereby losing my recurring income, but hopefully the amount I have saved is enough to pull of this plan:

First, I'm going to start traveling the world. I plan to leave for Thailand in mid-April and never come back. Well, I'll stop by the States on occasion (I have two different weddings to attend in July, if nothing else). On my way around the world I want to build a lifestyle business that can make this exploration continue indefinitely. I have basically no practical skills, but a high IQ, I'm pretty darn personable and handsome and all that jazz (former porn star, competitive dancer, youngest ever invited lecturer at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics), and when I'm under pressure, I shine like the sun. Right now I'm working a bullshit personal assistant/executive director of a philanthropic fund job that requires basically no effort or intelligence, so I'm not under any pressure, and so I feel like a lump of coal rather than the diamond I know I can be. I'm hoping that by traveling I'll be able to douse myself in that wonderful eustress that gets me to actually get shit done, and then get some shit done and build that lifestyle business that I'll need, before I'll actually need it. And all from a beachhouse in Thailand or what have you.

My current idea for a practical lifestyle business is basically what Tim Ferriss talks about in 4HWW: finding something during my travels that people don't have in the USA that an adwords campaign confirms they would want, setting up a shopify, and getting a fulfillment company to ship it out. I'm totally open to new ideas, though.
So what do you think?

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The formatting is a little odd because I wrote this as an email to you, then went to your website to find your email address, and then noticed that hey SETT is up so I can just post this instead! Copying it over included the formatting, unfortunately.

Hey here's a question: I just started a blog,
http://whatjohanfound.com

Read any entry other than the most recent one, which is shit.
I have no attachment to its current format or anything. How do I go about setting up my own SETT blog? I've been poking around the website for a while now and haven't actually found that, to my chagrin.

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Hey... you can't have a SETT blog just yet... I'm going to endure the bugs solo and then once it's polished up a bit let other people use it, too. I'll put a signup list in this community section at some point.

Minimalist adventurer. Perhaps the only globetrotting explorer who cares about fashion these days???
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Okay, cool. I'm definitely going to be interested once it's fully rolled out

Minimalist adventurer. Perhaps the only globetrotting explorer who cares about fashion these days???
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I am one of the people that you speak to in the beginning of The Life Nomadic
, who found a copy online for free. I enjoyed it and found it informative enough that I then went and bought a copy, and I am really looking forward to putting its ideas into practice. Speaking of, I'm having trouble actually finding info about which specific cruise lines have the cheap in a certain direction tickets, do you have any more precise advice about that?

Man, it's been a while since I read The Life Nomadic, I should really reread that.

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It's all in LN. The gist is to start at cruisehotsheet.com and end up at cruisecompete.com...

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Hey. I know it's been over a week since I posted last, and I'm sorry about that. This is going to be a disappointing post, and I'm sorry about that too.

Life Nomadic has, as planned, become my full time focus. It's not that I don't have time to write, but I'm currently writing tons of content for the site and I feel too drained to get into another big long thing here.

Once we launch the site in the next week or two, things will get back to normal.

Life Nomadic is on Gadling

I'm not sure if I mentioned some of this already, so I'll explain what's happening with LN this year.

LifeNomadic.com is no longer a blog. We've decided to make it a resource site for nomads and hardcore travelers. We're working hard on it now and it will be up very soon.

Instead of blogging on LifeNomadic.com, we're blogging on Gadling this year. Gadling is the most popular travel blog on the internet, which means that our articles will be read by millions instead of hundreds. This gives us more incentive to produce really high quality posts and videos, and to make them more often.

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