Lifestyle Design and Location Independence
Lifestyle Design and Location Independence
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Good article from Muse Life, by David Walsh about how Location Independence is only half the battle. Here are some highlights:
Everything ahead is based on personal experience. Though it’s bursting at the seams with judgement and condescending criticism, it’s also my own massive ego-check after rugged experimentation. It’s my realization that location independence is simply not enough and move back to the drawing board with unshakeable resolve for more.
1) Mobility is not Independence: Stop blurring the lines.
Mobility is as admirable a start as it is pathetic a finish. It is not wrong – it’s simply incomplete. Wireless isn’t freedom – it’s an extended leash. Call it whatever you want – it’s glorified telecommuting giving you an ever-greater sense of how big a world it is that you’re missing.
2) Perpetuation is not Elimination: Stop whoring your time for mobility. You deserve both.
When did we stop demanding time and mobility? Nearly half of all location independents work 40-50 hours a week. That’s a ridiculous number of people working absurd hours.
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3) Mobility is not Fulfilling
A raw sampling of the work-supported location independent lifestyle…
Stockholm: After a flirtatious exchange with two of the most stunning blonde girls you’ve ever laid eyes upon, you’re unable to accept their invitation to their normally all-girls fondue pajama party, due to your extended client work review session that evening. For the first time ever, you actually feel a dream die.
4) Logistics is not Ingenuity: Stop saying anyone can do it.
Even very smart people work constantly from one place. Slightly smarter people can travel the world working constantly from any place. The ingenious ones eliminate non-passionate work entirely to make room for experience.
5) Enabling Passion is not Passion: Stop lying to yourself about loving what you do
Just because you’re doing something from a bungalow in Thailand doesn’t make it something you love. You just love that it lets you chill in a bungalow in Thailand. You would never rationalize like that if you were doing it from a dank Scranton office park.
Really made me re-think some things.
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25/08/2009 at 10:50 pm Permalink
For sure, location independence is part of it, time and financial independence rounds out the trifecta. If you are working a full work-week, you are still someone else’s man. Fuck that with a fork.