Ian here! In 2013, I traveled to 7 countries, living mostly in AirBnB rentals along the way. When I first starting using AirBnB, it would take me hours to find the right place. These days, AirBnB inventory is plentiful in most cities.

How we choose to think about money will end up (to some degree) defining how much of it and the quality of it that we receive. One of the things that’s confusing about money is the way we bake our moral attitudes into it.

Ian here! In my short time on this planet I’ve owned over 20 cars– everything from Subarus to BMWs. I’ve worked as a mechanic, raced competitively, and read just about everything printed about cars that I can get my hands on.

I used to think that buying a business class ticket was crazy. Who does that? Even if you’ve got all the money in the world, why waste a few thousand bucks on a couple of inches of legroom?

If you asked me what the single most important feature/software/service/company in the last 10 years for the proliferation of the location independent lifestyle was, I’d guess Skype’s call to phone service.

Another packing list? Yeah! Why the hell not. I still geek out on packing list posts and love reading what other people are doing with their kits.

A handful of people have questioned why we still bother to do these Philippines resort gigs. It’s not like this is a big business opportunity for us

This blog started, way back in 2009, with a job ad much like this. I’d love to write more about why we love providing jobs like this (but I’m on a deadline!) and I suspect that many of you who are considering applying know the drill.

Part of my motivation for becoming an entrepreneur is that I wanted to free up some time to do the things I like to do– and there’s few things I like to do more than reading (and increasingly, listening to) books.

When I Googled things like “how to make a great presentation” I would find a lot of great advice, but most of it was too high level. Tips on how to improve your body language and slide design were cool, but for more advanced presenters.

This thought experiment is interesting to me because over the past decade I’ve spent most of my career thinking about building products for customers, and not so much about building companies for buyers. Although we’ve managed to sell one of the mini-businesses we’ve created, we haven’t put much thought into positioning our company for strategic buyers.

What’s your “nature state?” Could you imagine a world in which you maximized your lifestyle so you could do mostly that? Would that be interesting to others or your business?

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Seth Godin once said that reading about how to be an entrepreneur is like reading about how to have sex. That makes sense to me. Entrepreneurs read books and then go set fires with the pages.

If you want to sustain the location independent lifestyle for many years, I wouldn’t suggest using your freedom of time and mobility to travel around and see attractions.

The perspectives of this billionaire are the same ones I’m seeing being implemented by hopeful and hard-working 20 somethings– tapping away at their MacBooks, and building their first 6-figure cash flows.

For me, few things are as pleasurable as neatly arranging all my possessions in just 2 bags, and heading off to the airport for another adventure.

I love to talk with talented people are serious about wanting to get a business off the ground. We'll discuss their marketable skills, combine them with what's going on in the marketplace, and figure a relatively clear path to significant cash flow within 3-6 months.

Last week I cancelled most of my phone calls, dusted off my copy of Freedom app (to turn off WIFI capabilities on my laptop), and caught a flight with my fellow blogger and coffee enthusiast James Clark. We were headed to the capital city of Vietnam-- Hanoi-- a place I always thought had a bookish vibe.

I was confused, and disoriented, and not at all certain how I had come to be seated here in this room in this house with these people and thirty thousand dollars on the table in front of me.