The Cosmonaut

A must read if you are somehow thinking about location independent living (in any of its flavours): 24 Things We Wish We’d Known Before Becoming Location Independent

This is Orange-Cosmo (technical name: UniPo, Cosmo Knots-Series 3), one brave traveler ready to cruise the universe in the quest for adventure and beauty. It is now part of the crew at the Vostok Spaceship:

Orange-Cosmo comes from Smupf, a beautiful store of vinyl toys where there sure is something cute for your next gift, something that will stand on the owner’s table and say “hey” every morning.

Remember that photoshopped image of the iranian missiles? The one where one of the four was faked (as if it made any difference). Yeah, this one:

Well, Cowicide decided he had a fever and the only prescription was… More Cowbell!!

(original location here)

Yahoo totally screwed it up when it requested people to have a Yahoo ID account to be a Flickr user. It’s like you need 3 different identities to be able to post some pictures: your previous one, the yahoo one, and then the flickr one, all of them with its email accounts, user passwords and all that.

Totally wrong.

But today I found something unbelievable:

In order to complete registration, you must provide a valid credit card and billing adress to indicate you are over 18.

Way beyond stupidity.

Some are extracted from the talks I attended while some others come from my personal-internal reboot:

1. There is a world out there, go reach it.
2. Your shit is someone else’s food (metaphorically speaking, ok?).
3. Own no more than 5 things you use, or else things will use you instead.
4. Leave your shit behind, it will serve others and make you more free.
5. If you reinterpret space and use it in non-conventional ways you are on advantage.
6. Courage is one of the most important things in life.
7. You can design your own life.
8. Do-ers are better than thinkers (in case you had to chose).
9. Conferences on a far away city are great for putting thoughts in order.
10. Web2.love is still the only strategic approach that makes sense when creating things.

I would love to see some more of these shared by other atendees. Please, let me know if you happen to post yours.