Bay Area Bedouinism |
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a revolution led by the digital nomads of the modern age |
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I recently heard a new term in the world of IT that stuck out from the usual car crash of acronyms and twelve decimal specifications, Bay Area Bedouins. | |
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Its origins found can be found in the San Francisco Chronicle. Journalist Dan Frost, coined the term as a description of local digital nomads. These are people who work for San Francisco start-up companies without offices, who roam from one coffeehouse to the next, working wherever they find a Wi-Fi connection. This isn't just a lifestyle for Desert nomads or cool kids on the other side of the pond either. You don't have to live in the Bay Area or the desert or work for a start-up. You don't even need access to a coffeehouse. It's easy, and I'll tell you how. But first, let me tell you why becoming a Bedouin can improve your life. |
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Boost your careerArmed with the right tools there are several ways Bedouinism can help your career. The most obvious one is that, when you carry your office with you, you'll be more responsive to colleagues and customers. Instead of replying to requests for a document with: "I'm on the road today, so I'll send it to you when I'm at my desk on Monday," you can reply with: "Here's the document." A little less obvious is how it will allow you to get closer to your business. For example, you can spend more time on the road visiting customers, suppliers and other business partners and you can do all this without a major penalty to your normal workload. You'll also be able to make the best of normally "dead" time such as waiting for the wife to try on the latest Jimmy Choo's or your husband to stop drooling over the latest hi-tech, high definition, super sized mega widget. In such situations, you can seldom avoid standing around like a spare part, so you might as well whip out your phone and crank through some e-mails. | |
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