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.

https://protoville.xyz

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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.

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.

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.

https://news.reorient.guide/

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.

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.

I’ve been working on this event aggregator for several weeks now. I’m known as the guy that goes to a lot of conferences and workation programs, specififcally those catered for digital nomads in Asia.

I decided to make an aggregator so a) I didn’t have to keep DMing events to people individually and b) there was no site that had all of these in one spot, and it's rather trivial for me to have a list of these (I know most of the organizers for these events in the region, so they usually let me know when they launch and AI makes it easy to assemble an event listing).

In addition I’m also working on arrival guides for countries. I want to help more remote workers become productive in new environments ASAP. So these guides have the silly tips and tricks I’ve collected for countries on how to get from the airport into a working environment quickly, starting with South Korea.

Appreciate any feedback or recommendations.

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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.

Some people die sooner than expected but that doesn't mean their yardstick should be measured in quantity of years. What about quality?

Much of the social media scams are done in south east asia by trafficked people: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hundreds-thousand...

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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.”

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Kind of clunky but if a proper chat + todo + llm hybrid was made, then that would be something worth exploring.