Sauna Will Not Raise Your Rate
...and why gym is the new bar.
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Community Is the Best Hedge Against OTAs
Why we never handed our guest relationships to a third party, and the five cheap things we did instead.
Build a Run Club That Doesn't Get You Deported
Build bubbles and the state will pop them for you.
The Largest Nomad Coliving in Asia Was Shut Down. It's a Cautionary Tale for Every Foreign Operator.
The official reason was a license. The real lesson is about who you build relationships with when you're a guest in someone else's country.
Gentrification Is a Housing Market Failure, Not a Foreign Income Problem
Foreign income arrives either way. The difference between protest and profit is where cities let it land.
Asia Isn't Hosting Nomads. It's Recruiting Them.
Low birth rates, open doors, and a talent leak pointing east. What it means for anyone operating in these cities.
Europe is suffering from the heat and the Azores are sitting half-empty
Climate is rewriting where a European summer is even viable, and while the Azores might have the perfect summer weather, it's tourism falls for 6th month straight...
The Top-Down Nomad Bet in Borneo
The opposite of Chiang Mai: state-led, selective, and starting from scratch
Why 12 of the Last 14 World Cups Lost Money
The tournament is a deadline that frees a budget you could never raise otherwise. The mistake is spending it on the stadium instead of the city.
The City the World Keeps Noticing (And the State Keeps Missing)
A city with more nomad infrastructure than almost anywhere, and still no clear mechanism to make any of them connect with local ecosystems