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Medellín, Colombia · Feb 2026

Elevation: 1,495m · Population: 2.4M · Average Wi-Fi: 74 Mbps

Chapter 17

Medellín

What happens when your office has no walls.

The cable cars run on schedule. The coffee costs less than a bus ticket back home. And the Slack notifications arrive the same as always — just with better light.

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Morning café in Chiang Mai with laptop on wooden table and coffee, warm golden light through windows
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Destination
Chiang Mai, Thailand

The City That Taught Me to Slow Down

Twelve co-working spaces, one motorbike, and the realization that productivity has nothing to do with urgency.

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Co-working loft in Lisbon with exposed brick walls, natural light, and professionals working at wooden desks
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Workflow
Lisbon, Portugal

How Strangers Become Collaborators

The loft on Rua do Poço dos Negros. Twelve desks, four time zones, one shared Notion board by week three.

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Minimal travel gear laid flat on a woven mat in Bali — laptop, notebook, camera, cables, and a small pack
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Bali, Indonesia

Everything I Carry in a 26L Pack

One laptop. One lens. The cables that actually matter. Three years of wrong decisions edited into forty minutes.

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Person reviewing finances on laptop at a café in Tbilisi, Georgia, with old-city architecture visible through window
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Income
Tbilisi, Georgia

What I Actually Earned in Year One

Every invoice. Every dry month. The number that made me book a flight home — and the one that made me stay.

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