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- [Narrator] Tech entrepreneur,
Kevin Unkrich is a digital nomad.
His minimalist lifestyle is also
how he runs four tech startups from his one backpack.
With a lot of people turning away
from the daily office lifestyle,
Kevin shares how he spent years perfecting being
a business leader and digital nomad without an office.
- Today, I'm actually in a,
we work in downtown San Francisco
in the Salesforce Tower.
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I got really interested in this one bag movement
which is sort of this extreme niche of minimalism
where everything that you own fits inside of one bag
and you can take it and go anywhere you want with it.
And I got started on that journey
because I was interested
in another movement called digital nomadism.
- [Woman] Digital nomad,
noun, a person who earns a living working online
in various locations of their choosing rather than
a fixed business location.
- As someone who is professionally trained
as a software engineer,
I was aware of different opportunities there
where I could work remotely
for different companies and actually be able
to live and work where I wanted.
Before COVID this was sort of a novel thing
this idea that you would work remotely
and travel wherever you wanted
and work from islands and do things like this.
Like it sounded like a dream,
but not necessarily a possibility.
Given that I had all of my things in one bag,
it made it much easier to imagine this lifestyle
where I could live and work in different places
for certain amounts of months at a time.
What's actually in my bag,
it's really straightforward.
Basically what I have is a capsule wardrobe
that works for me and my lifestyle.
And then I also have a tech kit,
and toiletry kit,
and then a number of other different items
from a wallet to a little Tide pen.
It's about reducing the cognitive drag on yourself.
You know,
when you have things and clutter around,
it makes it very difficult to focus
and not get distracted
by all of these things.
And then the other part is utility.
Do I actively use this thing day to day,
month to month?
Or is it just sitting in a drawer
and I don't actually need it?
And then it's about enabling the rest of your life.
So it's about the relationships,
career goals that you have,
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What we try to do is conduct a lot of
the recruiting and interviewing process online
over conference calls and then effectively bring
the team together at least twice a year,
potentially also for their onboarding.
And then we have a number of mechanisms
within our company that we use to try
to help build rapport and actually create
a team morale effect.
A lot more people are going
to be interested in working remotely
and have the freedom to move around and work their job
from anywhere and switch cities,
do things like this.
And so I think we're gonna see people take
that route a lot more often.
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