NuNomad Blog

If you’re going to SXSW – here’s a list of 17 great places to visit while you’re in Austin

Intrinsic motivation is key to being happy and doing your best work. Learn how designing your life to be location independent can boost your intrinsic motivation through the roof!

Is it really reasonable for location independents to say “no” to phone calls and only check e-mail once a week as Ferriss suggests?

the Nu Nomad is now available as a book! A comprehensive guide on how to achieve a location independent lifestyle. Paperback or e-book versions

by Carmen Bolanos
June 7, 2009
This morning I was talking with my friend Marcia Pirmez (who, by the way, we are going with to Brazil) and I was reminded of several issues about nomading that are close to my heart. Although I’ve touched on these in the past it seems time to take a new [...]

April 20
By Carmen
Greetings from your long absent NuNomad blogger Carmen! We haven’t nomaded ourselves off the planet. To the contrary, Ricardo and I have been working on our second book and have just sent it off to agents so please keep your fingers crossed for us. Finally now, I’m ready to return [...]

Businessweek.com has just published a new slide show of interesting home offices and I’m proud to say that 3 Nu Nomads made the cut! Go to Readers Show Off Their Home Offices and take a look at our own Ricardo (Richard Hamel), Henry, and Manu Kumar.
Be sure to go to the end of the [...]

So often we’re contacted by people who want to become nomadic but don’t know how to fund their trip. I see a lot of posts around the web that read something like, “I want to travel but I don’t have the skills to do web design…”.
Well, here is a job that everyone should have [...]

This morning I was contacted by Nick Leiber of Businessweek.com. They are working on a new project that will feature photos of interesting at -home office spaces and descriptions of those people who work in them. Nick thought our audience of nu nomads might be great candidates for people with cool office spaces [...]

by Carmen
Today as I was listening to the radio I caught a story on Marketplace (a popular public radio news show) about the latest reports on U.S. worker productivity. Here’s an excerpt from it that I pulled from the story text on the Marketplace site:
DAN GRECH: Since 2000, workers have increased their [...]