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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nathankim12d ago

My uncle built his whole carpentry shop that way too.

felixhenderson12d 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_jenkins6612d 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.