I don't understand the snarky feigned confusion around the term "digital nomad". If you move around while working online for extended periods of time, you're a digital nomad.

I usually just tell people "I travel while working with a startup remotely" because I'm aware of the term's reputation, but it seems to be an apt description to me.

I think the problem is when you add a label to a lifestyle like this it becomes an aspirational cult and ideological thing. Or something to aspire to at the very least.

It is after all just a circumstance. I know many people who would classify for whom this is just normal life and entirely unworthy of labelling themselves under some status banner.

No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot.

I've developed a methodology of throwing it away on receipt :)

But eventually you'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.

if there is an afterlife and (joy of joys) it is some kind of personalised hell, maybe anyone with the discipline to methodically dekipple during their life finds themselves trapped in a pile of said kipple