Counterflows #46: Battle for Nomad Talent, Airbnb's Future, How to Avoid Meetings
Your offbeat guide to distributed work and borderless living.
Hello friends 👋
I’m speaking about the future of work at a panel event next week alongside digital collaboration expert Sharon O’Dea, education futurist David Harkin, and policy researcher Jake Jooshandeh.
We’ll cover trends like the shift to entrepreneurship, purpose and meaning at work, skills in a world of artificial intelligence, and the rise of digital nomads.
It’s free and virtual, so why not grab yourself a ticket?
-Lauren
🌍🛂 Nomad Visas Will Drive the Global Battle for Talent (Lauren Razavi)
My latest Digiday story looks at how nomad visas are shaking up the global talent landscape. From Barbados to Estonia, countries are now welcoming remote workers with open arms. This is forcing businesses to think differently about everything from collaboration to hiring. TLDR: It's a damn good time to go location-independent.
🎧🏘️ The Entrepreneurs: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (Monocle)
Airbnb is betting on work from anywhere as the future of travel, driven by customer search data and a buoyant long-stay market. The company's CEO predicts that the guests of tomorrow will remote work and spread their trips across more destinations—with less emphasis on a handful of tourist cities.
🤑🏙️ Will New York City Go Bankrupt? (CNBC)
What does all this mean for places like New York? The pandemic has had an enormous impact on major hubs everywhere. Many formerly office-bound workers and entrepreneurs have already chosen to relocate. This video (~15 mins) breaks down the data so far to offer assess NYC's forward prospects.
📶🤝 How to Avoid Nearly All Meetings (Julian Shapiro)
Has anyone else been in the purgatory of meeting overload since the beginning of the year? This Twitter thread has some great advice on how to wrangle back control of your calendar, so you can stop nurturing your Zoom fatigue and focus on more meaningful deep work instead.
📚📝 Doing Content Right (Steph Smith)
This e-book is a definitive guide to planning, producing, publishing, and promoting high-quality written content online. It covers everything from generating the best ideas to optimising posts for SEO to navigating different monetisation routes—all in the clear, accessible, and engaging style Steph Smith is known for.
🥛🇷🇼 Where People Go to Bars to Drink Milk (BBC Travel)
In Rwanda, the most popular community hangout is the local milk bar—essentially, a cafe that serves milk on tap. This is related to the country's cultural connection to cows. And when you want to wish someone well in the Kinyarwanda language, you say, "amashyo", which means, “have thousands of cows!”
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