Counterflows #49: Italy's Nomad Incentives, Media Industry Reflections, Finding Joy in City Walks
Your offbeat guide to distributed work and borderless living.
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I wrote about the American cities and regions offering talent incentives for remote workers to relocate in my latest future of work story for Digiday. It features:
🇺🇸 Which destinations are competing for talent?
🏙️ The exodus of tech workers from major US cities
🏘️ What policymakers are hoping to accomplish
Read the full story here and support on Twitter here.
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🇮🇹🍝 Digital Nomads in Italy: Visas and Tax Incentives for Remote Workers (Florentine)
Written by a Florence-based lawyer and author, this simple guide outlines the state of play for remote workers hoping to take advantage of their newfound freedom by spending time in Italy. Michele Capecchi summarises the latest opportunities and advantages for folks hoping to nomad when travel reopens later this year.
💻🤔 How Asynchronous Communication Could Change Your Workday (BBC Worklife)
This story breaks down the benefits and challenges of asynchronous communication, examining whether the flexibility of distributed and hybrid work will result in greater productivity or painful isolation. The most important takeaway: Asynchronous working requires company culture to shift, and that 1) requires good leadership and 2) doesn't happen overnight.
📰✍️ Am I Still a Journalist? Media Industry Reflections (Anna Codrea-Rado)
In this intimate piece, Anna Codrea-Rado writes about her attachment to the job title “journalist” and explores what it feels like to work in such a broken industry. Her heartfelt reflections will resonate with anyone who has built or experimented with a media career in recent years.
🎙️💡 A Marathon-Length Interview with Balaji S. Srinivasan (Tim Ferriss Show)
This podcast interview (~4 hours!) is the talk of the internet right now: VC, startup and crypto Twitter are all convinced it’s one for the history books. Tim Ferriss meets investor and entrepreneur Balaji S. Srinivasan for an epic conversation about the past, present and future of just about everything.
🏙️🧭 Why Cities Emptied by Covid-19 Are Perfect for Modern Flâneurs (Guardian)
This travel story looks at the charm of strolling around empty cities during lockdowns. Chris Moss draws inspiration from Charles Baudelaire—the writer who came up with the term “flâneur” to describe the art of aimless ambling around cities—and offers advice on how to do it well in these strange times.
🇦🇪☕ Dubai Is Leading the Middle East’s Speciality Coffee Trend (Monocle Radio)
One of the world’s most futuristic cities has launched remote work visas and been applauded for a speedy vaccination roll-out, but that’s not all: Dubai is at the forefront of the Middle East’s emerging speciality coffee trend too. This brief podcast segment (~8 mins) meets the pioneers leading the charge.
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