Written by Jeremy Bernier who left the NYC rat race to travel the world, work remotely, and find the meaning of life.
Today I visited one of the villages habitated by the Karen Tribe, famous for the neck rings that the women wear. Originally from Burma, many…
The media fixates on GDP and unemployment rate. When GDP is high and unemployment is low, the economy is considered to be doing well. Of…
Here are the material possessions that I need to live a life that I’m content with: Shelter Food Laptop with internet connection Cell phone…
It seemed that most people don’t know how to do this, so I figured I’d write a post. The problem with the Youtube App and Chrome are that…
The natural trend of capitalism is towards ever-increasing wealth concentration and oligopoly/monopoly. This is an inherent characteristic…
“Society doesn’t owe you anything.” This phrase is often said by people on the right-wing, usually to argue against redistribution of…
Today I swam in a waterfall, drove through the countryside, and climbed up this mountain to just chill. Yesterday I went to a canyon and…
I made this website with Gatsby.js , a static website generator framework based on React.js. The website is hosted for free via GitHub…
It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that sitting down all day and staring at a bright LED screen a couple feet away from your…
I was grabbing lunch with a stockbroker friend of mine from the hostel the other day, and for fun we decided to shoot some street interviews…
I wasn’t planning to write so much today. I would just force myself to start writing one article, and then seeing the unfinished article…
Perfectionism is one of the greatest sources of procrastination. Our fear of things not being perfect prevents us from completing anything…
Reactive State: The dopamine-addicted state of living in pure reaction. The Reactive State is what I call that dopamine-addicted zombie…
You are a product of your habits. Our brains are naturally lazy and seek what’s easy, the past of least resistance - the comfort zone. It’s…
I think that communal living is the ideal way to live for anyone not in a serious committed relationship. I’ve spent the last 8 months…
We all have our own conception of the ideal work schedule. Some like to work out first thing in the morning, others like to meditate and do…
I was just speaking to a South African in the hostel common area who’d spent 8 years living in London. When I told him I’d been living in…
It’s cold outside here in Kiev (13° high, 7° low). As someone who hates cold weather, this would normally be my cue to leave - after all…
I arrived in Kiev on 8/17, and as I write this (9/26) I’m still here. Why did I stay in Kiev for over a month? After 4 months of travel in…
Kiev, Ukraine After spending a couple weeks in AirBnBs, I was bored and struggling to get work done, so I booked a dorm in a hostel for a…
I was a Full-Stack Web Engineer for 3 years in NYC with a comfortable six figure salary before I got fired after someone sent a satirical…
Credit cards with cash back policies and no annual fees are essentially free money (assuming you treat it like a debit card and don’t spend…
It’s important to set up your mobile plan/strategy before leaving the country, especially if you’re currently with an overpriced provider…
There are two types of income: earned and unearned, aka economic rent. Economic Rent = Price — Instrinsic Cost Value Economic rent is the…
Our economy is like a big game of Monopoly, except all the properties are already owned by other people (unless you’re lucky enough to…
When I first started working, I had this idealistic vision that I would be judged based on my results and my results alone. In certain…
I almost titled this “Back in America after 4 months in South America”, but after going to South America I’ve realized how arrogant it is to…
I was strolling through the old town of Sao Paulo today and this idea for a satirical website popped up in my head, so I went home and…
When I first interned in NYC my junior summer I fell in love with the city and vowed to move there after college. After graduation I went…
Mexico City was the first stop on my world tour, and these are my impressions after 1 week. I’ll be completely honest - I originally had no…
“The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed” -William Gibson “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make…
As I type this it’s 2:27am in my hostel in Mexico City, 5 days after I started traveling, and I’m happy. I know this is going to sound super…
It’s time to modernize our political system and bring it into the 21st century, because what we have now clearly isn’t working. Most people…
I think we can learn a lot from Japan and Korea on how to design livable, walkable cities that don’t require you to drive a vehicle to go…
I got fired. Initially I wanted to call out the co-worker who dug up and sent my satirical video to HR (pretty sure I know who it was, this…
“Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence.” -Employee…
South Korea is one of the most technologically advanced and culturally influential countries in the world, but behind the curtain is an…
This is my quick summary of Peter Thiel’s video: Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5) . Here is the…
The biggest tragedy of our times is that most of us have to spend the majority of our lives doing things we don’t want to do, with…
https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-3-trillion-per-year Background Data There were 23.8 million managers, first-line…
This is a tutorial for beginners on how to set up a dev environment on a Mac/OSX (applicable to Linux as well). Text Editor - Sublime Text…
Productivity, or the rate at which you get stuff done, is highly variable. When I’m “in the zone”, I’d estimate conservatively that I’m 4x…
Recently listened to an interesting interview of Adam Grant (via James Altucher’s podcast) where he talked about his research in his book…
Here’s a data visualization I made of nonfarm employment in the U.S. by industry sector. You can click on any box to zoom in. The data was…
Forcing employees to be in an office from 9-5 is incredibly inefficient for both employees and employers, and results in an extraordinary…
Most people who struggle in school despite working hard simply aren’t making the effort to fully understand the material on an intuitive…
Javascript is a funky language. Here are some obvious design flaws: 1. Regex method is inconsistent when global flag is set Today at work…
I recently had the pleasure of creating a 2D HTML5 Canvas game from scratch. Here are some tips and takeaways that might save you some time…
I recently spent 2.5 days in Seoul and 1.5 days in Tokyo on an impromptu vacation. Had the time of my life, and was blown away by how much…
We don’t complain about primary or secondary education being free, yet somehow the topic of whether higher education should be made…
If you agree with me that school is a giant waste of time, then it follows that school is one of the biggest crimes against humanity if you…
Today at work the whole office had to sit down in an auditorium and listen to an outside consultant lecture us on the “Agile methodology…
Last night I was bored and looking for a side project to work on to help improve my Javascript skills for my new job (just finished week…
Remote work is becoming more and more mainstream as companies are realizing that chaining their employees to a desk in front of a laptop for…
I just finished the Master’s program in operations research from the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) at Columbia University…