Global Citizen. Borderless by Design.
Base cities · Routes · Time zones · The trade-offs behind each move
Global citizen. Borderless by design.
Where the base is this quarter. Which routes are worth the hours. What a time zone costs on a working week. Borderless living runs on those decisions, and this pillar covers them alongside the trips that were worth taking.
What This Pillar Covers
Four threads, weighted toward the systems rather than the scenery
Base Cities
Where the base is and why it earns the slot: overlap with client time zones, the training infrastructure within reach, what a month actually costs, and whether the visa position holds for as long as the plan does.
Read more →Routes & Logistics
Which long-haul corridors are worth the hours, where a layover buys more than it costs, and the working days each route burns on both ends. The flight is the cheap part; the recovery is the bill.
Read more →Working Borderless
Running client engagements and a server fleet from wherever the base is this quarter. What breaks across time zones, what async absorbs, what has to stay synchronous, and the kit that survives being packed every few weeks.
Read more →Trips Worth Taking
A small, deliberately limited allowance for actual trip writing. The differentiator here is the systems angle, not the postcards, so this stays a side dish: the few places that changed how I plan the rest.
Read more →Latest
Written from the road, not about it
- Working Borderless
What a Time Zone Actually Costs
Running US-client work from an Asian or European base: which hours go dead, what moves, what async absorbs, and where the overlap tax stops being worth the base.
- Base Cities
Choosing a Base City as a Criteria Problem
Time zones, training facilities, cost, visa position, flight connectivity. Five criteria that rarely agree, and how I weight them when they do not.
- Trips Worth Taking
Training Through Long-Haul: What Survives the Flight
How an endurance block coexists with real long-haul travel. What I schedule either side of a flight, how jet lag interacts with training load, and what I have stopped pretending works.
- Base Cities
The 10 Most Popular Nomad Destinations for Remote Work
Ten cities the wider nomad community rates highest, scored against my own five criteria rather than generic nomad-blog framing.
What this pillar will track
Every other data-backed section on this site — the commit lanes, the training load, the weight and body-fat charts — runs on real logged data, not narrative. This pillar will work the same way once there is something real to show: countries and cities visited, flight hours logged. Nothing here is backfilled or estimated, and the numbers in the header stay deliberately vague until they are. The chart goes live when the tracking does.
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