Travel

173 posts

5 Oct I analyzed booking site ratings and Yelp is the only one with a distribution you can trust 𝕏
5 Oct I made hotelist.com to fix Airbnb's 4.5 to 5.0 rating scale 𝕏
1 Oct An Apple Store in Dubai leaves Apple Watches lying freely by the open door 𝕏

30 Aug I think the hate for Dubai is mostly a Eurocope that can't deal with how dirty and unsafe Europe's cities have become 𝕏
26 Aug Hotel ACs in Europe are designed to show rooms about 4°C/9°F colder than they really are 𝕏
24 Aug Airbnb deleted our review of a threatening host but kept her negative review of us 𝕏
24 Aug I made Hotelist.com because Airbnb, Google Maps, and booking sites delete negative reviews so everything is always a 4.7 𝕏
24 Aug Never stop talking about hotelist.com until everyone finds out 𝕏
24 Aug xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when traveling in China 𝕏
23 Aug Greece now has the highest AC adoption rate in the entire Europe 𝕏
21 Aug We were chased by drug dealers in Lisbon after I said no thanks 𝕏
18 Aug Nomads and expats in Thailand seem to be in the crosshairs of the Thai government and Bank of Thailand this year 𝕏
16 Aug I remade a chart of the best and worst value cities based on Nomads.com data 𝕏
13 Aug We flew into Beijing from Japan, then went to Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai and Hangzhou 𝕏
11 Aug I'm not a paid CCP shill but China is having its moment for tourists now 𝕏
9 Aug China is one of the highest value countries to travel to now 𝕏

30 Jul You should change your flight from Tokyo to Shanghai to visit actual China 𝕏
13 Jul Places the most attractive rich and educated nomads visit vs the least 𝕏
2 Jul Korea's bus stops have AC to keep you cool in the heat 𝕏

29 May Luxury hotels are mathematically bad value 𝕏
28 May Western Europe is so fucking tiring 𝕏
27 May Hotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security 𝕏
25 May Leiden might be the best Dutch city to visit instead of tourist Amsterdam 𝕏
17 May Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
17 May Hoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏

2 Apr Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists 𝕏

27 Mar Argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now 𝕏
16 Mar The irony that traveling on less than $1,000 a month is more fun than luxury travel 𝕏

7 Feb Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏

4 Jan Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states 𝕏

14 Dec Qatar Airways business class gets you special arrival reception at Doha 𝕏
13 Dec I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
13 Dec Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
7 Dec China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms 𝕏
7 Dec Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
6 Dec Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall 𝕏
6 Dec Never fly directly into Lisbon from outside Europe to skip immigration 𝕏
5 Dec Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
4 Dec Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
4 Dec Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
4 Dec I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
3 Dec China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
3 Dec Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes 𝕏
3 Dec Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible 𝕏

29 Nov I got the China cough after 4 days in China 𝕏
27 Nov Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
27 Nov China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
27 Nov The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
27 Nov Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift 𝕏
26 Nov Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
26 Nov Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
25 Nov China isn't easy to travel 𝕏

18 Sep It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏

15 Jun I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏

28 Apr Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula 𝕏

29 Dec The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏

24 Nov Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏

30 Sep Travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain 𝕏
23 Sep Nomad List is one of the first network states 𝕏
5 Sep Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏

5 May New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago 𝕏

21 Mar Got scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires 𝕏

5 Oct If I was 18 today I’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏

8 Aug Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month 𝕏

13 Jul Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does 𝕏

15 Jun I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C 𝕏
10 Jun First class in America vs first class in Asia 𝕏

20 May Thailand is a third world country 𝕏

6 Apr Buenos Aires is now #1 on Nomad List thanks to cheap currency 𝕏

11 Mar If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏

11 Feb Digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏

29 Dec Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏

5 Jul The secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible 𝕏

16 Apr Flying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore 𝕏

12 Dec If I didn't travel in my early 20s I'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business 𝕏

13 Sep Lisbon is now the most visited city on Nomad List 𝕏

6 Jun Fastest growing remote work hubs Mexico Canary Islands Dubai Miami Medellin 𝕏

21 Oct I'm building a new mini startup this week after finding an idea road tripping in Portugal 𝕏

2 May I added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves 𝕏

16 Dec Hotel lobbies as the new secret free coworkings after public libraries 𝕏

29 Jul Nomad List 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on Product Hunt 𝕏
29 Jul Nomad List turns 5
25 Jul Fukuoka hotel I randomly booked turned out to be coliving with beautiful coworking 𝕏
7 Jul Tourist versus local maps for NYC, SF, Amsterdam and Tokyo 𝕏

5 Apr Work life balance 𝕏

13 Mar Bali banned single-use plastics and this cassava bag is the biodegradable alternative 𝕏

24 Nov In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
23 Nov Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving 𝕏
23 Nov Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏
19 Nov Beijing today 𝕏

8 Oct Map of every European city 𝕏
1 Oct Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏

27 May Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans 𝕏

11 Dec Nomad List 3.0 is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏
2 Dec My Revolut card was stolen in Bali but the app let me freeze it and ship a new one fast 𝕏

22 Oct How to get healthcare as a digital nomad or stateless person 𝕏

26 Jul Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit

3 May Taipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing

11 Jan A society of total automation in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play

10 Nov Finally met John O'Nolan in real life in Chiang Mai 𝕏
1 Nov Finally my two hobbies merged: travel and VR with Nomad List VR 𝕏

29 Oct How to fix flying
18 Oct Vaporwave impression about my month in Shanghai 𝕏
17 Oct Hong Kong Express - 上海 (Shanghai)
8 Oct Working from a free coworking space in Shanghai 𝕏
7 Oct The Shelter in Shanghai is a cyberpunk Bladerunner club from the year 2150 𝕏

12 Jan How to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)

16 Dec We are the heroes of our own stories

30 Nov Beijing air quality hits 543 AQI 𝕏

1 Sep Why global roaming data solutions don't make any sense

11 Jan Why are you still in Europe 𝕏

31 Dec Love, Anxiety and Startups: My Year in 50 Tweets

13 Sep Why traveling makes you feel lost

5 Aug Manila

23 Jul Bali is the magical voodoo spirit island of Asia

7 Jun The free fall that is coming home after traveling the world

13 Apr Celebrating my birthday North Korean style

18 Jan How I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed of All My Stuff)

20 Jul The 100 Thing Challenge – From 200 to 20 things in 3 months
17 Jul Living in a Hotel
16 Jul The Story of my Visa Run to Tachileik in Myanmar

24 Apr The 100 Thing Challenge
23 Apr Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba
22 Apr Reset your life

9 Mar How I switched from PC to Mac in less than 7 days

1 Sep I went studying abroad in Korea