As I move my mind a bit more toward the digital nomad mindset and path, I have discovered throughout a LinkedIn post a guy showing what Pieter Levels has achieved.
I was really surprised that after watching a lot of YouTube and content about the lifestyle that I didn't know who he was. I was stuned to discover he is kind of the guy that probably helped growth the trend with it's website.
https://nomadlist.com/
I knew about this site, I have used the information on it in order to get an idea of countries you could live in for a low amount of money while still having a good quality of life. This is kind of a follow up to reading Tim Ferriss the 4 hour work week where he talks about Geo-Arbitrage opportunity of earning in a strong currency then spending in a weaker one in order to increase your purchasing power and travel to new place without breaking the bank.
But I never got around to signing up to it, I guess I was happy with what I was getting for free but since this path is becoming more a reality now then I am starting to discover new tools and people and I actually want to join the community as well not just to travel by my own.
I guess search and you shall seek really works.
As you discover new ways on how you want to live your life, well opportunities comes, you have to take the first step and trust yourself, it might that time, for me even years to really get the motion going, I now there is still a lot of challenges coming especially around building a business online and keeping it a float.
I have also bought his book and started reading his blog to get more insight and inspiration from someone that created a different path,, showed it to people and encourage the ones that are interested in joining.
Spending over an hour adding new trips and doing my profile
To use his website is very simple and actually enjoyable, you can create your own public version of travel diary. Since I joined less then 24h ago I have a lot of discovering to do by I already like it's simplicity in the feature.
Currently adding my trips since 2018, I realize I didn't even have that data easy on hand and I went back through my photos and email to get flight date and location of where I have been over the past years. Quite a trip down memory lane.
This is a work in progress screenshot, still have trips from the last two years to add and then probably at a later time my trip before 2018.
It is cool to see the map and metrics being constructed from the data, it makes it easy to see what you have done and track your travel journey all in one place.
I have a bit of concerne about losing that data but I apparently he created an easy way to export it via API or file in a few formats.
An idea pop into my mind to maybe add this data to the blockchain once I am happy with it so I know it will stick for as long as nodes are running on HIVE.
Pieter Levels mindset:
He is all about execution, delivering, shipping projects.
I have a lot of catch do to reading his blog posts but this guys started his path by taking on a challenge of creating 12 startups in 12 months, basically one a month.
He would try a lot of projects and fail more the 80% of the time.
His philosophie is to build the MVP out with minimal features, launch to to the appropriate audience, he used product hunt and hacker new. He tries to get feedback strength away and if user stay and use the product then he will keep on building it and monetize it.
For him it is important to get the data about what people would be willing to pay for, he finds a market then adapt to it, paying the bills at the same time as revenue flow in.
The beauty with software development and online business is that you can create a MVP for very minimal cost in order to test the water.
Here is a link to his Twitter / X bio:
https://x.com/levelsio?ref=levels.io
Going forward
That guy inspires me to complete the projects I have been working on and to face the market, which is the only true test. By using this approach I will probably save time and eliminate idea that aren't worth pursuing at the time, to work in the long run a project has to be sustainable, his vision is to emphasize on that from the beginning.
Building stuff, trying to find users that like it, improve and select what you keep working on.
He is also a fan of building with what you now already, today anyone can create an online presence, you can checkout google to get info on how to build a minimalist website. His goal isn't to ship beautiful code bit to ship out apps/products people can try right away.
I will try and list the projects I want to launch then shorten the deadline and create something now even if not finished.
It is one exemple of building with the community rather then creating something for customers that might not have a need for it.
Update: another 1h00 spend going through photos to get the dates right.
I thought I would take a break but I actually want to finish my profile and input all the data I can find to have a better picture of my travels over the year.
I started the record in 2008 when I moved to NZ for 5 years where not much happened in terms of travel to 2014 when I first started to travel again when I could. Just realized 10 years have pasted from 2014.
Work in progress probably another 45 mins to complete the last two years which should be easy. I am aiming to post this article before tonight.
Update 2: Completed, looking at 16 countries with the recorded trips, I did a few more when I was little but those weren't my choice and I didn't want to go that far back t get the data.
Happy that this is completed
Final map looking like:
Still so much of the world to discoverFor 2024 I am planning to add a few countries in South East Asia.
Conclusion
You can find my public profile at https://nomadlist.com/@walterjay
I believe this tool/website will be very useful for my future travel in October, and it will serve me as a diary as well as a way to meet new people and get information I need about place I want to go to.
Very happy to have joined this community.
PS: the AMA recording didn't last long enough for me to complete all this work inputing data but why stop when you have the motivation to complete a task. I have a feeling this will be useful data for later and I can even use some of it to remind myself or to create content on inleo.io about past and future travels.