Mark Manson

The
Dark side
of the digital nomad

The following is the original piece I wrote fro CNN last year entrepreneurs, also known as "digital nomals." Since the whole "Work Online, Travel the World and Live the Dream" angle had been done to death in a million places, I decided to go the other direction and show the dark side of being a digital nomad -- the challenges one faces, the emotional pitfalls, the social sacrifices.

Predictably, CNN hated it. The editors hacked it to pieces and asked me to rewrite sections to make it less gloomy. But I was always fond of te original, so I'm posting it here unabridged.

Comments (45)
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jonathandunn
3 hours ago
Good point! There are travel blogger. Then there are freelancers: coder mainly.
roberto98
3 hours ago
Not one family in amongst that. Being nomadic is easier when you only have 1 person to worry about.
danielrubinho
4 hours ago
Not saying it's not doable, some good friends of mine manage it but would have been a better article with 50/50
danielrubinho
5 hours ago
here people do business from the road (running an IT company, travelling and filming their travel)