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Medium

Procrastinators Are Actually Workaholics (4 Steps to Reclaim Your Life)

When we procrastinate, we fill our lives with the tasks that are right in front of us rather than make the concerted effort …

Forbes

9-5 Is Out. Try The 1-6 Instead.

For most of us, it doesn’t matter when we work or how long it takes to finish. Working fewer hours doesn’t mean …

Reddit

Why is Chiang Mai so popular?

I don’t get it. Please explain it to me. Did all these blogs trying to sell people on Chiang Mai have some an effect? …

This Programming Life

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt

This is a story about finding a job as a senior software engineer in Toronto - with a twist: just having moved there from …

The Conversation

Is the future of work necessarily glamorous? Digital nomads and 'van life'

Should we advise university and high-school students to become digital nomads? As part of the apprenticeship of the new world …

Red Shift

5 Things that Suck about Remote Work: The Pitfalls of Remote Work + Proposed Solutions

Though I love my remote work job, it’s not without issue. There’s no way to know the pitfalls unless …

Discover Magazine

My Forgotten Language

How the brain can lose — and reclaim — an abandoned mother tongue.

The New Yorker

Improving Ourselves to Death

In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of personal …

Hacker News

Remote workers, how do you show your work?

When I was working remotely as a dev, I found one of the hardest problems was communicating what I was working on with my …

Noteworthy - The Journal Blog

11 Lessons I Learned After Reading 1,000+ Profiles of Successful People

I’ve read more than 1,000 profiles since I started writing The Profile, a weekly newsletter featuring the best …

Deloitte - CIO Journal

Radically Open: Tom Friedman on the Future of Work

My first rule is: Always think like an immigrant, because we’re all new immigrants to the age of accelerations. Second, …

The Guardian

Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs

Work has ruled our lives for centuries, and it does so today more than ever. But a new generation of thinkers insists there …

Reddit

What's the worst thing about being a digital nomad- and how have you overcome/mitigated it?

What’s the worst thing about being a digital nomad- and how have you overcome/mitigated it?

CNBC

Citing fire risk, smart luggage with lithium batteries are facing new travel restrictions

Starting Monday, many airlines around the world begin enforcing a new rule that forbids passengers from checking or carrying …

The Guardian

Modern life is lonely. We all need someone to help

Most people understand that loneliness is neither necessarily felt by people who are alone, nor alien to people who are …

Be Yourself

How to Be Happier in 2018

When I reflected on my 2017 — what went well and what didn’t — my main takeaway was this: certain activities and …

Darius Foroux

Impatience: The Pitfall Of Every Ambitious Person

Big splashes don’t happen. Overnight success doesn’t exist. We have to remind ourselves of that whenever …

Bustle

12 Travel Hacks That Will Make Your Trip So Much Easier, According To Digital Nomads

Here are a few tips from digital nomads that any traveler could benefit from.

Hacker News

What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?

What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?

BecomeNomad

Tips for working with a laptop from public locations

Whether you are a digital nomad, freelancer or remote worker, it is critical to find good spots to stay for a few hours and …

Lars Holdgaard

Digital nomad depression – a downside of travelling the world full time

When some newbie decides to jump into the amazing new world of digital nomadism – their Instagram and Facebook fill up with …

Harvard Business Review

How to Highlight Your Talents in a Job Interview Without Showing Off

So what should you do if you are interested in communicating your talents to others without coming across as a show-off or as …

The Independent

Airline safety: 2017 was safest year in history for passengers around world, research shows

In a year when more people flew to more places than ever, 2017 was the safest on record for airline passengers.

Hacker Noon

The Stress of Remote Working

There is a lot of good to say about remote working, and I see a lot of rabid defence of the practice. I agree with most of …

Reddit

1 year in. My DN experience.

As I’m actually doing the digital nomad thing - thought I’d share my experience.

Been a hell of a year, extremely …

Slate Magazine

Terminal

This is a story about how the airport became the setting for the Great American Freakout. Once an icon of progress, then …

Longreads

The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy

There is a story about a ghost economy. The distance between the main employer, the company that hires the temp agency, and …

The New York Times

Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Heart

Sitting quietly for extended periods of time could be hurting your heart, according to a surprising new study. It finds that …

The New Yorker

An Ode to the Home Office

The home office both contains and makes real the ephemeral and frustrating toil of generating and realizing a good idea.