Dirk Delisse – Online Therapist for Ambitious Singles and Couples seeking Healthy Relationships
July 19, 2024
Fostering healthy relationships is Dirk Delisse’s specialty. As an online therapist, he supports ambitious people who do have a partner, or have issues finding one. In this episode, Dirk addresses situationships, common in the digital nomad community, and the importance of spending quality time with aging parents. Furthermore, his
Marc Wieland – Swiss location-independent web developer in his twenties roaming the globe
June 24, 2024
Passion for traveling, chatting with locals, and landscape photography is what inspires Marc to be nomadic. Thanks to his determination, he found a Swiss web agency, that allows him to work four days a week and from anywhere. Listen to Marc’s full story about how he started, how he
Why I switched from Gmail to Proton Mail to iCloud Mail?
June 21, 2024
I value privacy and was delighted to discover Proton Mail. Their solution sounded like a wonderful counterpoint to the dominance of Gmail and other ad-driven services. Once I read books about surveillance capitalism, I knew that I wanted to protect my data and experience what it means to use the
Nerd on Tour YouTube channel with all the Podcast Episodes
May 28, 2024
Back in 2012, the world was swept up by the Gangnam Style song. The two biggest winners were Psy, the Korean singer who started K-Pop mania, and YouTube, the streaming platform. Due to this social phenomenon, the latter needed to rapidly upgrade its tech infrastructure, as Gangnam Style was their
Revolut eSIM: white-label telco service aimed at digital nomads
April 24, 2024
The mobile-first bank app addresses the roaming Internet access needs of location independent professionals. While legacy banks warn from using their services abroad, Revolut deeply understands their digital nomad customers’ needs. eSIM is a vital offering that can improve Revolut’s overall business, while easing access to mobile data around
Beeper the universal chat app using Matrix protocol
April 16, 2024
Recently, I published my impressions about the Texts app and how well it addresses the chat apps market fragmentation. Which is especially crucial for digital nomads and our international outreach. Automattic, who acquired Texts in October 2023, just six months later bought another chat aggregator called Beeper. There’s more
Texts.com: powerful inbox for all major messaging apps
April 02, 2024
Texting is my default method of communication. Same for the hundreds of millions of active users of WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and so on. It’s a real shame that in the early 2000s many messaging apps were interoperable thanks to the XMPP (Jabber) protocol, and today users are kept in
Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu: solid hard sci-fi with Chinese origin
March 27, 2024
There are very few sci-fi books that deliver an earth-shattering message. Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu is one of them. After hearing about it numerous times in Tim Ferris Show and other places, I finally read it in 2022. Its sci-fi concepts wrapped in an intriguing story captivated me so