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Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by CPLX on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:35AM (#16029164)
I think this is an interesting topic but that article is basically incomprehensible. It could have benefitted greatly from a little more of the "first this happened, then this happened" approach rather than being an impressionistic onslaught of feelings and vagueness.
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by IkmoIkmo on Friday December 29, 2017 @07:49AM (#16029222)
And the GIFs... ugh, I like to play games, watch movies and enjoy flickering images in those contexts, but not when I'm reading. 9/10 paragraphs are about three lines. But worst of all, content-wise it was just a repetition of 'I used to be stable, but on a nomad lifestyle I wasn't' over and over.
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by RubenSandwich on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:03AM (#16029262)
This type of writing/speak is the equivalent of the classic interview response: "My biggest weakness is that I'm such a hard worker." It doesn't feel honest.

I wonder if that is because the author is a founding member of digital nomad community/agency, honestly I have no idea exactly what it does because the website is super vauge, so to question the lifestyle is to question his livelihood.

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by goldenkey on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:17AM (#16029544)
You hit it on the nail. The article is actually somewhat of an advertisement. The author is signaling about his "master status" as an exemplar of this iconiclastic lifestyle. He needs to do this to sell his self-help books, tutorials, advice, etc. He also needs to gain the credibility so he is invited for talks for those mostly marketing based "Hacker Cons" where a bunch of semi believable tinkerers tell their stories about how they did something so special and mold breaking. And I don't mean technical conferences we all love. I mean the bullshit ones.
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by applebeesam on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:49AM (#16029687)
Hahaha no plans to be th next Tony Robbins just yet but I'll let you know when I start my cult ;)
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by goldenkey on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:04PM (#16033602)
Hahahaha, good one! I actually really love B. K. Robbins - he is my favorite motivational sneaker! The way he speaks is so deliciously appetizing!
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by applebeesam on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:48AM (#16029685)
Hi there - author here! Super Global is a nonprofit tech advisory service for social impact organisations. We also have a community of creative & tech agencies who want to do use their expertise for good.

Not nomad related but the name does conjure those images!

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by IanDrake on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:27AM (#16029882)
I mean no disrespect, but perhaps my honest opinion might help a you a bit, though I could be totally wrong.

Your hook, “Super Global is a nonprofit tech advisory service for social impact organizations.”, makes me feel like you think I’m stupid and is personally a turn off.

You’re an IT consultant that specializes in the charity industry. Everything else is just buzzword bingo.

Your non-profit status is meaningless to anyone who understands corporate structures and social impact organization seems to be a new-age word for charity.

The charity industry is big business and people make a lot of money in it. While I really do appreciate their positive impact, the virtue signalling is tiresome.

If your hook works for you, great, don’t change a thing. But to me it’s cringe worthy and might not be helping you. Sometimes being more direct is better.

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by dwaltrip on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:59AM (#16030067)
> Your non-profit status is meaningless to anyone who understands corporate structures

Care to clue the rest of us in?

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by IanDrake on Friday December 29, 2017 @01:12PM (#16030859)
Sure. Besides the technical differences in ownership structure which you can easily google, the reality of nonprofits is that in most cases the founder stands to make as much money (yearly) as the founder of a for-profit company.

For example, let’s say I have and s-Corp and it provides me with, let’s say, 100k of salary and my pass through income (profit) of 25k.

I could alternatively have created a nonprofit giving myself a 100k salary and bonus myself 25k - what would have been profit. In this way, I’d end up with 125k and the company ends up with no profit.

The details are different but the results are nearly the same.

One major difference is that the founder of a nonprofit can’t sell the organization.

Again though, the reality is that they can be given a do-nothing role in the company and receive what could be understood as compensation for the exchange.

Sadly, many nonprofits are set up for the benefit of their founders and cronies, thus nonprofits aren’t always as virtuous as you would be led to believe.

Also, I should note, incase anyone is unfamiliar, nonprofit != charity. A charity is a special type of non-profit.

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by eesmith on Friday December 29, 2017 @02:14PM (#16031286)
I'll add another example, which I heard about in the context of charter schools. I'm quoting from http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2016/07/for-hrc-profit-vs... :

> I set up my non-profit school-- and then I hire a profitable management company to run the school for me. The examples of this dodge are nearly endless, but let's consider a classic. There's the White Hat management company that was being dragged into court way back in 2011. This particular type of arrangement was known as a "sweeps contract,' in which the school turns over close to all of its public tax dollars and the company operates the school with that money-- and keeps whatever they don't spend. The White Hat story is particularly impressive, because the court decided that White Hat got to keep all of the materials and resources that it bought with the public tax dollars.

> Or consider North Carolina businessman Baker Mitchell, who set up some non-profit charter schools and promptly had them buy and lease everything-- from desks to computers to teacher training to the buildings and the land-- from companies belonging to Baker Mitchell. ...

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by dwaltrip on Saturday December 30, 2017 @05:07PM (#16037926)
Thanks for the response. That is good information to know.
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by goldenkey on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:12PM (#16032683)
Non profit has no bearing on salaries paid, only what happens to leftover cash. If there is no leftover cash after salaries are paid, nothing really changes.

So saying you are a non profit is a good way to fool some people. The rest know that a non profit still pays salaries in any capacity they'd like.

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by goldenkey on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:14AM (#16029531)
The article is an advertisement . The author makes money off of the shtick "How you too can live this amazing lifestyle!"
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by applebeesam on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:51AM (#16029690)
It would be great if people paid me for writing this stuff! I run a nonprofit social enterprise haha
Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by goldenkey on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:22PM (#16032433)
Nonprofit does not imply no salary. Your organization basically does consulting work for profit..but then you pay that profit to yourself and whoever else you employ. It's very clever but it's not like it isn't the oldest advertising trick in the book. And its certainly one of the easiest ways to make innocent sounding statements like the one you just made.

[1] https://super.global/copilot

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/company/super-global

Re:I went full nomad and it almost broke me by Legogris on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:13PM (#16032377)
I actually had a more "yup, saying it as it is" reaction to this. I guess I have gone through similar experiences as the author.