A former coworker of mine.
The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
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Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#72Hi peeps, This was a nice surprise getting on HN =) First of all, I was a weirdo before I moved to the forest. But now I'm a very happy weirdo. I do have 4G (LTE) broad band, so Internet is almost everywhere I go. I come from Stockholm but I live now on a trail called Sörmlandsleden, it's a 1000 km long trail and for the moment I'm pretty far south from Stockholm. But the trail never goes out "into the wild". I also…
As soon i get my moped i am gonna go you. /John from Funplanet :)
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#73Hi peeps, This was a nice surprise getting on HN =) First of all, I was a weirdo before I moved to the forest. But now I'm a very happy weirdo. I do have 4G (LTE) broad band, so Internet is almost everywhere I go. I come from Stockholm but I live now on a trail called Sörmlandsleden, it's a 1000 km long trail and for the moment I'm pretty far south from Stockholm. But the trail never goes out "into the wild". I also…
As soon i get my moped i am gonna go you. /John from Funplanet :)
Welcome :)
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#74Maybe he is taking "Lean Startup" a bit too seriously ;-) But otherwise great idea. I wonder how far into the swedish wilderness their mobile broadband extends and how soon someone is going to rob him of his posessions...
There is pretty good countrywide 3G coverage in all Nordic countries. I remember uploading images to Flickr from tens of kilometres from human habitations about six years ago.
Also, these countries are very safe. Hard to imagine somebody coming to your camp to take away a laptop.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#75This is awesome. Personally, I occasionally daydream of "escaping it all" and coding by the ocean. This piece reminded me of someone else who "escaped it all": Paul Lutus [1]. In the spring of 1976, he built a 12 x 16 foot (3.65 x 4.87 meter) cabin in Oregon and developed Apple Writer [2] on his Apple II. He documented his story in a piece entitled, Cottage Computer Programming [3]. [1] http://www.arachnoid.com/admin…
Boats provide some of the cheapest rent and best views in the Bay Area. Paid less than one year's worth of rent to buy a 42' motor boat and parked it over by Oakland where my monthly liveaboard slip fee is just over $500/month. If you need to be in or around SF and are trying to save on rent, I can't encourage people enough to try it out.
Good tip, you never know when it's time for SF.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#76Good luck! I think it's a great way to live close to nature for a while. Camped once in the forest in Finland near a lake for a week with my gf, eating fresh fish every day and drinking spring water is awesome, can't wait to do it again sometime.
I also lived in a tent in London, in my garden, for 3-4 months (weekdays only) while my house was being renovated and extended - it's fine. I did it until November, in Sweden you'll want to move back indoors a couple of months earlier.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#77This is amazing, but I can only thing of the terrible screen glare issues from working outdoors. Yuck!
It is some of a problem. Especially because I must keep display strength to a minimum to save battery. But it works. I use the colorsheme morning (think its part of solarized) in Vim and let the sun hit the screen. And then when the screen gets to hot I move to the shade and use Jellybeans colorsheme.
Really wish there were decent ultrabooks with e-ink displays for working in the sun. This is the only commercially available product i've seen - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2125333
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#78This is awesome. Personally, I occasionally daydream of "escaping it all" and coding by the ocean. This piece reminded me of someone else who "escaped it all": Paul Lutus [1]. In the spring of 1976, he built a 12 x 16 foot (3.65 x 4.87 meter) cabin in Oregon and developed Apple Writer [2] on his Apple II. He documented his story in a piece entitled, Cottage Computer Programming [3]. [1] http://www.arachnoid.com/admin…
Boats provide some of the cheapest rent and best views in the Bay Area. Paid less than one year's worth of rent to buy a 42' motor boat and parked it over by Oakland where my monthly liveaboard slip fee is just over $500/month. If you need to be in or around SF and are trying to save on rent, I can't encourage people enough to try it out.
When marinas become full of thrify tech workers, slip fees increase, people bid up any available slip (used boat), and real boaters are forced out, then you will have encouraged people enough.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#79I wish more startups would spend all of their time out of doors in outdoor offices. I keep wanting an outdoor covered workspace here in Texas, even when it's 100 Farenheit outside. I think offices dull the senses, and separate us from the world.
Agree on that. There is some overhead in making food and taking care of the camp but there is also another peace of mind that (we'll see if) could be good for your creativity. But in either way, I feel very good on the inside now. No stress. Just harmony. Still getting a lot of things done.
Everytime I see you reply to this thread, I have to remind myself that you are actually out in the woods right now, probably sitting by that lake as you type the comment.
Re: The entrepreneurial adventures of a coder living in a tent in the forest
#80This is so cool. Someone should set up a startup house that is a giant log cabin in the middle of some remote forest (but with a fiber connection of course). I would totally pay to be there.