Remote working

2026
• 22 MayMy daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code 𝕏
2025
• 10 AprAndrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
2024
• 22 SepFireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
• 5 AugIn Bali the heat puts your brain into power save idle mode 𝕏
• 15 JunLearn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k 𝕏
• 7 AprSouth America uses remote security people and doormen 𝕏
2023
• 5 OctIf I was 18 today I’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏
• 11 MarIf I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏
• 11 FebDigital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏
2022
• 18 OctPeople asked me about my ergonomic desk set up 𝕏
• 9 SepThe best jobs are 100% remote 100% async with no scheduled meetings no whiteboard interviews and no monitoring systems 𝕏
• 11 JunWhy offices suck 𝕏
• 6 JunEuropean sign calls remote workers a plague and tells them to leave 𝕏
• 15 MayTop rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022 𝕏
• 10 MayBuilding Remotely Podcast: Relocation of remote workers
• 26 JanIndie Hackers Podcast: Money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder
• 25 JanA corner office in 2002 vs 2022 𝕏
2021
• 12 DecIf I didn't travel in my early 20s I'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business 𝕏
• 9 SepMade a fully functional fake VS Code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out 𝕏
• 6 JunFastest growing remote work hubs Mexico Canary Islands Dubai Miami Medellin 𝕏
• 12 AprRemote OK is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month 𝕏
• 25 MarThe next frontier after remote work is async
• 13 MarThis is why I don't do calls 𝕏
• 8 MarWhy coliving economics still don't make sense
2020
• 12 NovThe future of remote work: how the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years
• 5 NovBuilding Remotely Podcast: Will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?
• 21 SepRemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month 𝕏
• 12 MayTwitter will allow employees to work from home permanently 𝕏
2019
• 16 DecHotel lobbies as the new secret free coworkings after public libraries 𝕏
• 12 SepThe odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
• 5 AugMonitoring Bali's undersea internet cable
• 29 JulNomad List 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on Product Hunt 𝕏
• 29 JulNomad List turns 5
• 25 JulFukuoka hotel I randomly booked turned out to be coliving with beautiful coworking 𝕏
• 30 MayIt took 4 years to reach $1m annual revenue with Nomad List and Remote OK 𝕏
• 5 AprWork life balance 𝕏
2018
• 7 AprSitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con 𝕏
• 20 MarDon't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months 𝕏
• 17 JanIndie Hackers Podcast: Confronting fears and taking a leap
2017
• 28 DecAs decentralized as cryptocurrency is: so will be the people working on it
• 22 DecHalf the people in Asian coworking spaces are now working on crypto 𝕏
• 11 DecNomad List 3.0 is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏
• 21 NovHipster is dead: the millennial is now a minimalist 𝕏
• 8 JunIt's about time for a digital work permit for remote workers
• 3 MayTaipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing
• 23 MarRemote work is now the #1 thing people want when looking for a new job 𝕏
• 10 FebMost coworking spaces don't make money; here's how they can adapt to survive the future
• 11 JanA society of total automation in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play
• 7 JanNomad List Founder
2016
• 10 NovFinally met John O'Nolan in real life in Chiang Mai 𝕏
• 8 OctWorking from a free coworking space in Shanghai 𝕏
• 5 OctWhat I would do if I was 18 now
• 26 JulWe have an epidemic of bad posture
• 5 JanMy 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding 𝕏
2015
• 8 NovSpeedtest on slow internet 𝕏
• 25 OctThere will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
• 1 SepWhy global roaming data solutions don't make any sense
• 14 MayI uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
• 17 AprDo the economics of remote work retreats make any sense?
• 6 AprCalling people "expat" or "nomad" is just as irrelevant as calling internet users "netizens"
• 2 AprHow I built Remote | OK and launched it to #1 on Product Hunt
2014
• 27 OctThe ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in Silicon Valley
• 14 OctThis is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution
• 1 OctOn Thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads
• 31 AugHow I built Nomad Jobs, a remote job board for 100% distributed startups
• 16 AugHow I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
2013
• 23 NovHow I spent the night with Singapore's migrant workers
• 27 OctThe myth of a globalized world
• 19 OctRemote working is the future
• 12 OctWhat I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
• 19 JunMake money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. Does income arbitrage work?
• 16 JunFinding an apartment in Chiang Mai
• 11 JunCo-Working Spaces in Chiang Mai: PunSpace
• 10 JunMoving to Chiang Mai
• 29 MayThe 24-Hour Coffee Place in Bangkok: Too Fast To Sleep
• 1 MayCo-working spaces in Bangkok: Launchpad
• 23 AprCo-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba