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How To Book Cruises For Less Than $30 Per Day
In the last post, where I wrote about how much I like working from cruise ships, I mentioned that I could share my method for booking really cheap cruises. I’m going to do that here, and share some other relevant cruise tips. Getting Cheap Cruises First, start at Cruise Sheet. There used to be a…
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Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location
I’m currently on a cruise ship somewhere in the Mediterranean sea, en route from Barcelona to Casablanca. Most people here are either retirees enjoying the easy life or younger folks celebrating birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries. My friend Brian and I are neither– we’re using the ship as a mobile work retreat. As a nomad and…
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How to Book Flights with Free Mini-Stopovers
Last night I landed in Florence. I had four layovers on the way here, which doesn’t sound like a positive thing at first, but I booked them intentionally. Very frequently, if I have a long flight, I’ll book tons of long layovers and actually leave the airport on each one. My first layover was in…
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The Simple Method of Preventing Jet Lag Every Time
Jet lag sucks. I remember the worst time I had it, during one of my first trips to Japan. I was so excited to get out and see Tokyo, but I just couldn’t pry myself from the bed. At three pm in the afternoon I battled to keep my eyes open, knowing that I would…
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Don’t Front
There are a lot of different stories I could tell about SETT. To certain audiences of people outside the tech world, I could really make it seem like a big thing. I could say that I’m the CEO of a tech startup that’s growing 10% per week and has developed all sorts of innovative technology…
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The Importance of Environment on Productivity
I’ve got two weeks in China. The first was spent between Shanghai and Beijing with Leo, mostly drinking prodigious amounts of good tea in tucked away teahouses. The second week I figured I’d catch up on work. With nothing much besides work on the agenda, I picked a cheap hotel in a good location. The…
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Bet Your Friends to Be More Right
A while back I had a friend named Andrew. The tie that bound us was our love for gambling, not as a thrill-seeking diversion, but as a practical application of statistics. We made money gambling together, exploiting any edge we could find, but we also gambled between the two of us. I forget how it…
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How To Be Productive While Traveling
If you have a nine to five job, then maybe your challenge is to not work while you travel. The hard part might be escaping the calls and emails. But when you’re independent, sometimes it’s difficult to harmoniously mix business with your traveling. I offer advice on this not as a seasoned expert, but as…
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My Mini Sideproject – Cruise Sheet
I went on my first cruise ten years ago. All I really knew about them at the time was that they were the most interesting things pictured on the back of cornflakes boxes, and that a girl I had a crush on found one for $199. Sold. Since then I’ve been on ten cruises or…
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Thinking About How You’ll Feel to Survive Impulses
I just finished up a 12 hour workday. I got a lot of stuff done, took only the bare minimum in breaks, etc. All I wanted to do afterwards was watch Elementary, a modern Sherlock Holmes show. Somehow my “no new shows” rule gets bypassed for new shows about Sherlock Holmes, and I’ve been enjoying…
