There are more ways to wage freedom today than there are colors in a rainbow. Liberation from employment isn’t as simple as it was when ‘work’ meant spending more hours than you preferred in a place you did not ‘live’. But that’s good news. If you work remotely and your occupation is seeping–or cascading–into the rest of your life through hyper-connectedness, it’s still much less intrusive upon your life as a whole than your presence being required 40+ hours a week at ‘the workplace’, as it has been defined since the industrial revolution. One hopes.
Digital Nomads: You ‘get’ some websites as soon as you see the name. It’s no surprise that a culture of connectedness-in-motion would arise, as further corroboration of the power of this (network) of infinite viscosity. Digital Nomads explores the effects of enabling technology on working life, via dispatches from people who are living it. Twenty years from now the contributors might seem rather too enchanted with their mobility, but until the fetish of Escaping The Cubicle becomes reality for everyone who wants it, there’s a vicarious pleasure to be taken from these digital nomads, and a place for sites like this. There is real value in documenting the details of a profound watershed in the way that people trade their time for sustenance, and its effects on the lives of ordinary people.
Additionally, these digital nomads are probably best suited to explain to the rest of us how to achieve a balance between work and life, or probably better, what Tim Ferriss calls ‘work/life separation’.
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