Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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But it's not true in Europe. In Europe, it's much more average.
Yeah.
Man, yeah.
Yeah.
But you don't feel scared?
I have friends, like there's a lot of friends that are exactly like this. Like they go to like the kind of broken areas, you know? Like they like this reality. They like authenticity more. They don't like luxury. They don't like... Oh yeah, I hate luxury. Yeah, it's very European of you. Like...
Man, anywhere. I think I wrote it in some blog posts and like, It was a common thing when you would wake up and this was like, because I have this website. I started a website about this digital nomads like called nomadlist.com and there was a community. So it was like 30,000 other digital nomads because I was feeling lonely. So I built this website and I stopped feeling lonely.
Like I started organizing meetups and making friends. And it was very common that people would say they would wake up and they would forget where they are. Yeah. like for the first half minute. And I had to look outside, like, where am I? Which country? Which sounds really like privileged, but it's more like funny. Like you literally don't know where you are because you're so disrooted.
But there's something, man, it's like Anthony Bourdain, you know? There's something pure about this kind of vagabond travel thing, you know? Like it's behind me, I think. I don't like, now I travel with my girlfriend, right? It's very different, but it is a romantic, like memories of this kind of like, vagabond, individualistic, solo life.
But the thing is, it didn't make me happy, but it was very cool, but it didn't make me happy, right? It made me anxious.
Yeah, you have like the novelty effect, like you're in a new place, like here things are possible. You know, you don't get bored yet, and And that's why people get addicted to travel, you know?
So I think you need to be able to spot problems. So for example, you can go in your daily life, like when you wake up and you're like, what is stuff that I'm really annoyed with? That's like in my daily life that doesn't function well. And that's a problem that you can see, okay, maybe that's something I can write code about, you know, code for, and it will make my life easier.
So I would say make like a list of all these problems you have and like idea to solve it. And I see which one is like viable. You can actually do something and then start building it.
Yeah, but that's where travel comes in. because when I started traveling, I started seeing stuff in other countries that you didn't have in Europe, for example, or America, even like, if you go to Asia, uh, Like, dude, especially 10 years ago, nobody knew about this. Like WeChat, all these apps that they already had before we had them. These everything apps, right?
Like now Elon's trying to make X this everything app, like WeChat, same thing. Like in Indonesia or Thailand, you have one app that you can order food with. You can order groceries. You can order massage. You can order car mechanic. Anything you can think of is in the app. And that stuff, for example, you know, that's called like arbitrage.
You can go back to your country and build that same app for your country, for example. So you start seeing problems. You start seeing solutions that other countries already, other people already did in the rest of the world. And also traveling in general just gives you more problems because travel is uncomfortable, you know. Airports are horrible. Airplanes are not comfortable either.
There's a lot of problems you start seeing. Just getting out of your house, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I used to have like a... Because when I wasn't making money, I was trying to like make this list of ideas to see like, so I need to build... I was thinking statistically already, like I need to build all these things and one of these will work out probably, you know? So I need to have a lot of things to try. And I did that.
Right now, I think like, because I already have money, I can do more things based on technology. So for example, AI... when I found out about when stable diffusion came or chat GBT and stuff, all these things were like, I didn't start working with them because I had a problem.
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