#112: Digital Nomad, Community Building and 1729 Discord Community with Chance Taken

Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang. On the show, I interview global citizens who follow a unique path to build a better future and share stories and tips they learned along the way. Our conversations are focus on cultural observations, technology trends, career development and philosophy.

My guest today is Chance Taken. Chance is currently remote-working @On Deck. He is also a co-founder @Chingu. 

We discussed:

• Chance's digital nomad lifestyle

• How to cope with loneliness?

• What tools to use while relocating?

• Will remote working dominate the employment market?

• What's Chingu, and what problem is it going to solve?

• What's On Deck? Will the cohort model be the future?

• When people from all over the world working together, how do you create an environment for a nice cross-cultural?

• What's the motivation to create the 1729 Discord Community (note: it's not an official 1729 community)?

• What's the purpose of the 1729 Discord Community?

• Why 1729 encourage people to build up a decentralised media platform?

• How to deal with the reverse culture shock as a global citizen when back to your motherland?

• The technology and infrastructure progress of Asian countries

• What's advice for becoming a digital nomad and adapt to remote working?

• Top three tips for community building

Linked mentioned from this episode:

1. meetup.com

2. https://chingu.io/

3. https://beondeck.com/ 

4. https://1729.com/

5. Balaji Srinivasan on Tim Ferriss Show

6. 1729 Discord Community

7. The Start Of Startup Cities

8. The Pseudonymous Economy - Balaji Srinivasan 

9. Badass: making users awesome by Kathy Sierra

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