Leave Your Cubicle Behind

September Offers Valuable Lessons

September was a learning month for me. One of the things digital nomads need to do is create a reliable source of money. As a digital nomad, you are most likely your own boss. Maybe not. Maybe your boss lets you do work from the beach. That’s cool. You have a salary. You’re golden. Yet the majority of digital nomads and cubicle escapees end up as their own boss or trying...

Can You Make It In Every Niche?

Besides running this site, and numerous travel sites, I have a SEO client in Bangkok run a guitar site. In the 8 months I’ve been helping him with his website, I’ve come to realize one thing: not all niches work well. Everyone wants to turn their passion into a website so you can live wirelessly. Everyone wants to have a successful website with lots of visitors, readers, and sales....

How to Leave the Cubicle, part 2

In part one of our series on how to leave the cubicle, I talked about how you need to first figure out what you want. Determining your goals are important in figuring out what you need to do to escape the cubicle. In part 2 of our series, we will focus on tasks that everyone will need to do in order to free up time and escape from the cubicle. And that all can be boiled down to two...

How to Escape the Cubicle, part 1

Everyone wants to escape the cubicle but not everyone knows how to do so.  There’s plenty of books and websites out there that can help you but many of the ones I read seem to lack concrete steps to really help you escape the cubicle in any meaningful way. Most of them revolve around starting a web business but that’s not always something everyone wants to do. It’s...

The Power of Twitter

A lot has already been written about Twitter and more will still be written about it. But this is a new blog and so this is a new topic to discuss.  On my travel site, I wrote about how powerful a travel tool twitter can be.  Twitter is the next internet revolution. What makes it superior to blogging is its ability to allow people to have real time conversations and share things at...

Turning My Back on the Cubicle

I can’t remember my life before now. I broke out of the cubicle early. Lots of people want to leave the cubicle behind but most never do. Office life isn’t inherently bad. I have many friends who work in offices doing jobs they love. But those same friends lack the one thing that breaking free gave me: time. That’s what leaving the cubicle is about. It’s about getting time....