Viktor's ramblings
A Decade of Remote Work
So what have I learned over this decade of working and running remote teams? Let’s dive in.
Remote WorkArticles
The best articles, stories, and big ideas about digital nomads, remote work, and the future of work from across the web, sorted chronologically. Since 2015, we've curated 5274 articles, written by 5763 authors from 1243 publishers.
Scientific American
A Solution for Loneliness
Participating in volunteer opportunities may help alleviate loneliness and its related health impact for several reasons. The …
LifeThe New York Times
Why Do You Grab Your Bag When Running Off a Burning Plane?
As passengers fled a burning plane in Moscow, some stopped to get their luggage. Don’t be too quick to judge.
Life TravelTechCrunch
Yes, Americans can opt-out of airport facial recognition — here's how
If you’re a U.S. citizen, you can opt out by telling an officer or airline employee at the time of a facial recognition …
TravelNational Geographic
Suffering unseen: The dark truth behind wildlife tourism
Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures …
TravelYouTube
Van Life with Wee Man | Converted Mercedes Sprinter
Jason Acuna also known as Wee Man sold his Malibu house last year and decided to consolidate and move everything into a home …
Digital NomadPopular Science
City life damages mental health in ways we're just starting to understand
Urban dwellers are particularly at risk from the impacts of air pollution and other hazards on mental health.
HealthUproxx
Travel Writers Tell Us Their Best And Worst Airline Experiences
Anyone who’s ever squeezed their bodies into an airplane seat owns at least a few crazy air travel stories, good and …
TravelBecoming a digital nomad as a couple
Anytime I hear digital nomad “success” stories it’s always a single person traveling and working without a …
Digital NomadDistributed.blog
WordPress Showed Me the Power of Distributed Work. It's Time to Share What We've Learned.
How can we work better and smarter in the decades to come—and what’s the moral imperative driving our desire to change? …
Remote WorkMedium
MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children
You can become fluent in a language in a few years of work, I see it all the time. This paper further proves that even …
LanguageAndy Matuschak
Why books don't work
All this suggests a peculiar conclusion: as a medium, books are surprisingly bad at conveying knowledge, and readers mostly …
LearningTrinity Takei
Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Remote Work, Part 0: The Dark Side
First, let’s start with a prologue: what challenges remote workers/digital are facing? This is the single most asked …
Remote WorkNoteworthy - The Journal Blog
Upwork: Banned me after 3 years and $50k earned, for being unshaven
Seems Upwork can ban you just for not looking your best in the morning. Or they use facial recognition software that does the …
FreelanceVox
Bored and lonely? Blame your phone.
Our emotions today are radically different from what 19th-century Americans felt. That’s partly due to technology.
LifeThe New York Times
Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?
A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.
Health WorkLifehacker
Can Your Employer Fire You After You Quit?
You give notice, but your employer declines your resignation and fires you on the spot. What happens to your unemployment …
CareerScott's Cheap Flights
How to Find Cheap One-Way International Flights
Members of our Travel Community often ask, “Is it cheaper to buy two one-way tickets instead of a roundtrip?” …
TravelThe New York Times
500 Days of Duolingo: What You Can (and Can't) Learn From a Language App
Free language learning apps often promise the world — but don’t expect fluency from one. Here’s what to expect …
LanguageWIRED
You're not getting enough sleep—and it's killing you
“The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, …
HealthNew York Magazine
People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours
Virtually anyone you know who claims to be working more than 60 hours a week is not telling the truth.
WorkEntrepreneur
Want to Improve Your Company's Diversity? Go Remote
Look at a candidate’s work first. Delay the face-to-face interview until later, to avoid age, gender or ethnic bias.
Remote WorkThe New York Times
Where the Good Jobs Are
For people without a college degree, finding work that offers decent pay can be a challenge. The solution may require a …
WorkThe Guardian
Have hen will travel: the man who sailed round the world with a chicken
Meet Monique, for the past five years, she and Guirec Soudée have been sailing around the world. Emma Beddington reveals how …
TravelThe Outline
Traveling is an elitist nightmare
Tourism is increasingly oriented toward and designed for the rich. How do we make it for everyone?
TravelThe New York Times
Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer
By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health.
HealthRebel Writers Club
Six months. Three small kids. One big island adventure.
Reflecting on our ‘radical sabbatical’ living on the Thai Island of Ko Lanta.
Digital NomadDEV
Embrace How Random the Programming Interview Is
But if you find yourself staring down an opportunity and wondering whether you are capable, please step into the …
CareerAtlas Obscura
When Doctors Thought 'Wanderlust' Was a Psychological Condition
For decades, “pathological tourists” ended up in asylums or worse.
Travel80,000 Hours
Career advice I wish I'd been given when I was young
A reader who prefers to remain anonymous — but whose career we think did a lot of good — passed us this list of advice which …
Career