The second installment of the Nomad Skeptic Podcast features the show’s first ever guest.
Steve Beyatte is a 31yo man who has worked in Silicon Valley for years and is about to embark on a digital nomad journey with his fiancee — but this won’t be his first adventure around the world with laptop in hand…
Topics include
*Silicon Valley and the tech scene.
*The value proposition of weddings vs travel.
*How we respond to the reality which presents itself to us.
*Mental health and how the DN lifestyle can affect it.
More About Steve
Clips used
Christof interview with TV presenter in ‘The Truman Show’ – here.
Tim Ferris talks about mental health – here.
Voiceover
By Faye Howard whose Fiverr account you can check out here.
Production notes
Recorded on Thursday, 23-May-2019 (Day 89 of the journey) in the small room of the air-BNB in City Squares, Kuching, Borneo, Malaysia.
Compression at 17db (every tack).
I really enjoyed the show, very interesting topics great guest. Thanx JLB.
good chat.
i remember listening to an interview last year where Tim had discussed his move out of San Francisco…to Austin (which i’m sure will homogenize if it hasn’t already) but he mentioned several times ‘the mono conversation’. that same conversation is rampant in new york.. ‘we’re raising this” …’i know company X who exited with Y shares in startup Z’ etc. .etc..
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-tim-ferriss-left-silicon-valley-for-austin-texas-2017-12
*would pay to have JLB and TF on a chat doing a deep dive on stoicism sources.
‘Stoic Skeptic’ 😛
only caveat is that the ‘it can be useful wisdom regardless of authenticity’ is not an acceptable compromise for the geo-arbitrage author.
-i agree on the pros to feeling like you’re in a local ‘community’. but there’s also the reality of petty two faced small town gossiping, the simplicity of suburban life, the transience of city life even if you have a ‘hood’, the groundhog daily of grinding in a high col locale.
Juxtapose this issue with what’s going on In Golden State. Kevin Durant will never be ‘the guy’ like Steph Curry is. Though neither is from the bay area, Curry is the hometown hero. Durant is just a visitor. A welcomed visitor…but the heart and soul isn’t there like it is with Steph and Klay who were drafted and more ‘deep rooted’ in that franchise. Same can be said for other players who stick with one team and are immortalized versus being journeymen on a few different squads. Rarely do those types get statues outside of an arena.
Funny that the video game analogy was brought up because i was thinking the same thing while walking around prior to hearing the call. now 6 months+ sans any ‘home’ – being on the move is something to do. Many places are similar (humans, roads, cars, cafes, bars, restaurants) but nomadism offers new ‘screens’ to see. and the easy of switching ‘screens’ is new stimuli to whatever doldrums might befall those of us who aren’t content with normie life.
it’s cool that the guest found a woman that seems down for whatever. and doesn’t need Steve to be on the wealth ladder in SV. yet even those girls need shiny shit on their fingers. it’s a truly remarkable hoax …that will continue to pay dividends for decades. Because…most women have to have a ‘real’ one – that was forged in the caverns of the earth for millions of years!
**tangential to the DNs’ ‘ ruining a place ‘ … are the hipsters, trustafarians, trendy types who find a ‘village by the sea’ and compound the seaweed issues with deep soy. heard it’s happened in Bali. not surprised given the number of yogapreneurs and DN bloggers who pose (literally and figuratively) there.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/who-killed-tulum.html#comments