Just for people new to who Tynan is, he's a pretty far out guy. Some things I recall (sorry haven't kept up over the years)
1) Ran a successful professional online poker playing business, actually hired employees and trained them to predictably win.
2) Was one of the main characters in the book The Game (yes, that PUA one).
3) Did polyphasic sleep experiments in earnest (was it a couple months or so?).
4) Had a giant inflatable outdoor pool inside his house, taking up his entire livingroom.
5) Sold all his belongings, including said house, and travelled the world for a year with almost nothing... probably in 2k8 or so before such an idea became more commonplace.
There's probably some much cooler stuff I'm forgetting, but hey it makes perfect sense he'd be part of an island buying crew.
Not common place before 2008? A lot of anti materialism propaganda started way before that: AdBusters, Culture Jam and lots of other films that were even main stream.
Travelling the world for a year (which requires not having a lot of possessions) is not necessarily part of the same trend (frankly, of garbage) that you cite.
>Although I'm happy to be saving money, my _primary reasons_ for living in an RV are that it _forces me to be minimalist and focus on what matters_, and it's a lot of fun. I've modified nearly every aspect of the interior of my RV (...) Some of the changes include:
> Maple and marble floors
> Brazilian granite countertops
>Japanese-style tea room in the back complete with rush-reed tatami
mats and mulberry shoji screened rear window.
>Golden tin ceiling
>Gold-leafed 10 foot curved section of the wall
>Home theater system with LED projector, 50" screen, and 12" subwoofer.
>Handmade zebrawood desk
>Controllable low-wattage LED lighting system with over 1000 bulbs
Consider it this way, in an RV has a small amount of room so there is a limit to the cool stuff he can put in it. So he has to CHOOSE what stuff to keep.
I men lets not forget about the giant inflatable pool in the living room incident. you simply can NOT do that in an RV
I use Dvorak, I believe it helped with my hand and wrist RSI issues, but I have no more than anecdotal evidence. I also type faster, which is verifiable, but it might just be due to ~7 years extra practice.
He did it for a higher calling -- namely having a penguin as a pet. Maybe if you make that your justification too your wife will jump on board, so to speak.
Way back in the early days of Internet, there were pictures of some fellows who moved all the furniture out of their dorm room, got a sheet of heavy-duty waterproof plastic big enough to cover the floor and three feet up the walls, and ran a hose from the bathroom...
> Sold all his belongings, including said house, and travelled the world for a year with almost nothing... probably in 2k8 or so before such an idea became more commonplace.
Has this really become more commonplace since 2008? People have always done this. Even before 2008. Maybe blogging about it is a fairly recent thing, though.
Ages ago, I also had this idea, including posting about it online. But it turns out I'm a dreamer rather than a do-er. Or maybe I'm just too addicted to comfort.
> 5) Sold all his belongings, including said house, and travelled the world for a year with almost nothing... probably in 2k8 or so before such an idea became more commonplace.
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1) Ran a successful professional online poker playing business, actually hired employees and trained them to predictably win.
2) Was one of the main characters in the book The Game (yes, that PUA one).
3) Did polyphasic sleep experiments in earnest (was it a couple months or so?).
4) Had a giant inflatable outdoor pool inside his house, taking up his entire livingroom.
5) Sold all his belongings, including said house, and travelled the world for a year with almost nothing... probably in 2k8 or so before such an idea became more commonplace.
There's probably some much cooler stuff I'm forgetting, but hey it makes perfect sense he'd be part of an island buying crew.