I helped co-host a popup village in rural South Korea last week. Mix of co-working, co-living and local activities like trail running and bird watching.
Post-event feedback showed everyone loved it. But personally I think we could have done better organizing on the co-working side so people has a more predictable schedule to lock-in.
So I’m planning what the next iteration of this event could look like if the co-working aspect was stronger. Especially in the area of everyone sharing their personal and/or professional intentions with each other. So they're more likely to accomplish those intentions with the help of other participants.
Sad to look back years ago when the first mobile apps started adopting this "Remind Me Later"-only dark pattern and is now festering everyday drivers like your OS.
Between these and services that suddenly suffer from amnesia and spamming me with marketing notifications and emails after months or years of silence, it’s becoming more tiring to use any service that grows significantly enough where they don’t need to care about what their users actually want.
One of the reasons "aged" account marketplaces got more popular. People buy from vendors that farm a ton of these accounts and wait to sell them, or those reselling compromised accounts (especially with EDU accounts before institutions actually implemented security controls).
This is the issue I've seen in new communities. Although my framing is from seeing mixed digital nomad and local communities. But ones that have the ambition to start a tribe or even a hub, if we’re going by Vitalik's terminology.
If you allow in more “non-believers”, just anyone that can join a group chat and physically go to a Google Map pin, more often that not most people will be non-participatory after their first contact. This makes it harder for a core team to get things off the ground if they have bigger ambitions than just a weekly meetup.
I think the crypto community took that to heart in particular due to DAOs having very few successful examples, and many of these new crypto-adjacent societies are using a different model that’s more similar to building a startup.
Last week I spun up a HN clone for digital nomad news.
Since I was researching DNS and global mobility, and wanted to share links with others, figured I'd just spin up a link site (though I'm still the only user).
One unique difference is I have a field for English Title, since I consume a lot of Korean & Japanese articles and want to share these, but don't want to have people translate the titles before they understand why they should read them.
Still working on my digital nomad event and workation aggregator.
But now with travel and visa guides to help remote workers become productive in Japan and South Korea ASAP and give them visa guidance if they want to stay a bit longer.
Started working on digital nomad event and workation aggregator two months ago. https://reorient.guide/
That main usecase is done. I’m now focusing on travel guides for remote workers. Goal is to help those new to a country to become as productive as they would be at home within 2-3 hours upon landing at the airport. I completed 80% of a guide to South Korea.
I started working on these guides after my friends in Tokyo commented during our last co-working session on how fast I got to our favourite spot (Tokyo Innovation Base) from Narita Airport; they thought I was already in-town.
Seoul is similar. Many Twosome Places have study desks and some of the chains known for small footprint also have bigger locations for meetings and work (Ediya Coffee Lab).
I never understood why people who are frugal would go to Starbucks in Korea to work, when local chains are beside them, have cheaper drinks and their desk/chair setups are less hostile to working.
Pretty sure he lived a life past just having “to show for it is an inheritance and obituary.” He wasn’t an IC drone and this probably makes more sense if you’re in Korea.
Some people die sooner than expected but that doesn't mean their yardstick should be measured in quantity of years. What about quality?
North Korea mostly focuses on large game: smart contracts with a lot of Total Value Locked, or other nation states and large companies that would contribute to those states economies
> this creates an interesting situation for virtually no risk whistle-blowing
Not so risk-free unfortunately
> A June 2023 email from the bank’s personnel department says “we hereby demand that you [the whistleblower] immediately and permanently delete any and all HSBC information on any personal email accounts.”
> “If you do not comply with these obligations,” the email warns, “HSBC also reserves the right to bring this matter to the attention of relevant law enforcement agencies.”
Not sure if coincidental, but YT has been slower for the last few days. But I do have Premium + uBlock Origin running in Firefox (I don’t want ads + all the other crap YT has on their page).
What's wrong with working on a side project if you have the financial means to do so without other obligations? I’m sure level-headed hiring managers would agree and those that don’t are probably shops you’d want to avoid anyway.
Depending on your threat model, I suggest using a unique email address to register your password manager account. Harden that email account and set up email forwards if it's separate or just give the password manager a unique name for your catch-all email address (I believe iCloud offers something similar to this as well).
I had a similar issue with PayPal a few months ago.
I’m not sure if it was a bug or its risk-based authentication being inane. But my 2FA options were limited to SMS for several weeks, even though I had software and hardware token 2FA enabled on the account.
This seemed to have resolved itself recently and I can use all my 2FA methods again. But it was certainly annoying and I wonder if it was PayPal pushing too hard that it didn’t consider software and hardware tokens legitimate methods of verifying my identity under certain conditions.
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