Ah, Lanta. I’ll be living here for nearly two months. Among other things, this is where I start really working. Except this time, I’m working for myself, creating a business from scratch.

The Bungalow

The bungalow above is my home for the next month. I love it. 5 minute walk to the beach, 3 minutes by scooter to the coworking space. $600 for the month (utilities and housekeeping inclusive) so I won’t be going broke anytime soon. Close to restraunts, bars, shops, and a 7-11.

Kohub

Kohub is fantastic as expected. Bigger and more expansive than I thought. Plenty of room, quiet, but also community events, meeting my fellow digital nomads. It’s a place I’ve already been able to get a lot of work done and will get a lot more done in the month ahead.

So What's it Like?

I have a short answer and a long answer.

Short answer is, it’s pretty fucking awesome. Living and working in a tropical paradise. No boss, no meetings, and a clear goal with all my working efforts directed towards it.

Long answer is, I find it incredibly hard to describe. It reminds me of a quote…

“Those whose strength lies in the depth impressions make on them - they are usually called deep men… are when they encounter the unexpected relatively calm and resolved: for at the first moment the impression was still shallow, only then did it become deep.

Long foreseen and expected things and people, on the other hand, excite such natures the most, and when such things finally do arrive their presence of mind almost deserts them.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s still hard to wrap my head around. Doing this is something I’d held in mind vaguely for some years, and as a concrete plan I was working towards for about eight months. And so it’s hard to describe, as it’s no longer a tightly confined thing, a “concept” in the grid of the mind- it’s a real, sprawling, breathing, messy, sticky, spiraling, cascading, awesome reality.