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Are Digital Nomads harming our host countries?
Are Digital Nomads harming our host countries?

At the moment I live in a town in Costa Rica called La Fortuna. There was nothing much here apart from farming until the 1980s, when the nearby volcano of Arenal erupted, and it kept on erupting for the next 20 years. Suddenly all the springs and rivers around Arenal warmed up and became thermal baths. There was a thermal bath boom, a spa-rush, as hotels and spas scrambled to grab access to the springs and sell it to tourists. Today, La Fortuna is one of the most popular towns in one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Everything is booming, until the volcano erupts again.

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Digital Nomads, Nomad, Digital Nomad Lifestyle, Travel, EntrepreneurshipJules EvansComment
Review: The Wellness Syndrome
Review: The Wellness Syndrome

How are you feeling? How well are you? Is your weight where you want it to be? Smoking too much? How happy are you on a scale of one to ten? Are you optimising your personal brand? How fast was your last five kilometre run? Would you like to share that via social media? Would you like a life-coach to help you overcome these challenges on a way to a better, happier, more awesome you?

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Capitalism, Politics of Well-Being, well-being measurements, well-being technology, Wellbeing classes, WorkJules Evans Comments
Review: The Happiness Industry by William Davies
Review: The Happiness Industry by William Davies

Watch out folks. There is a murky world lurking behind the scenes, a sinister cabal of policy-makers, psychologists, CEOs, advertizers and life-coaches, watching you, measuring you, nudging you, monitoring your every smile, all to try and make you happy. We must resist. This, broadly, is the message of sociologist William Davies’ book, The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being.

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Behavioural economics, Buddhism, Business ethics, Capitalism, CBT, happiness, Politics of Well-Being, Positive Psychology, well-being measurements, well-being technology, Wellbeing classes, WorkJules Evans Comments