Once I found out that people were really making careers for themselves off the Internet, independently, I was really inspired.
I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
The future of work is really about people deciding to live and work in the way that they want.
I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.
I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.
My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
I want to leave my country without leaving my home.
When you’re out of office, you’re out of office.
Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.
I don't want to be in an office. That's not my thing.
I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.
The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.
I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.
Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.
I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
I think that if you can work and travel, that is the best deal you can strike.
Montana is perfect for telecommuting because of the quality of life, because our housing prices in most communities are below the national average.
When I'm done with all of this, I'm going to write a book on it: have a guide to having a life and being on the road. Especially having a family and being on the road.
People are trading distance for dollars.
I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.
