Met a guy in a Chiang Mai coworking space who ran his whole business from a flip phone

Saw him taking calls on this tiny old Nokia. Asked him about it. Said he fired all his employees 3 years ago. Just uses text messages and voicemail now. No laptop. No wifi. Makes $80k a year selling handmade leather goods. Anyone else run into digital nomads doing the exact opposite of what we do?

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gavin_kim13d ago

Man I gotta say that flip phone guy sounds like a total savage. Its wild how we chase all these tools and apps and subscriptions thinking we need them to be legit, and this dude just unplugs completely and still makes bank. Makes you wonder how much of our tech is actually necessary vs just noise we got used to. The real kicker is he probably has way lower overhead and stress than most of us with our fancy setups.

nathankim1mo ago

My uncle built his whole carpentry shop that way too.

felixhenderson1mo ago

I used to think joist hangers were just something you could toss up with a few nails and call it done. But watching a video from Fine Homebuilding last week changed my mind completely, @nathankim. They showed how every single hanger needs the right size nails and full bearing on the ledger, or you're just asking for saggy floors down the road. Now I double-check every row before I move on, and it feels way more solid.

barbara_jenkins661mo ago

Respectfully, I've found that some of the old-school methods work just fine as long as you know the basics of load and spacing. My dad built a workshop with simple nailed hangers twenty years ago and it's still standing without a sag. A lot of it comes down to the framing underneath and not just the hangers themselves.