Designing your life: Wisdom from a 26-year-old nomadic coder/writer/growth hacker ~ Steph Smith
An episode of the Radically Different podcast, hosted by Sam Kern, titled "Designing your life: Wisdom from a 26-year-old nomadic coder/writer/growth hacker ~ Steph Smith" was published on August 25, 2020 and runs 68 minutes.
August 25, 2020 ·68m · Radically Different
Summary
Four years ago at the age of 22, Steph Smith left her consulting job and a two-hour commute to redesign her life. She began traveling the world, working from her laptop, and experimenting with different ways to live. Now she’s a growth marketer for top tech and media brands like the Hustle, a self-taught coder and indie maker whos projects have ranked #1 on Product Hunt, and a blogger with over 400,000 readers who writes about remote work, personal growth, women in tech, and learning to code....
Episode Description
Four years ago at the age of 22, Steph Smith left her consulting job and a two-hour commute to redesign her life. She began traveling the world, working from her laptop, and experimenting with different ways to live. Now she’s a growth marketer for top tech and media brands like the Hustle, a self-taught coder and indie maker whos projects have ranked #1 on Product Hunt, and a blogger with over 400,000 readers who writes about remote work, personal growth, women in tech, and learning to code.
In this episode we discuss:
- The “ah-ha” moments that lead Steph to discover the world of travel and remote work
- The concept pulled from the book Algorithms to Live by of exploration versus exploitation and how Steph has applied it to her life
- The diminishing returns of freedom
- Steph's experience as a woman digital nomad in tech
- Our advice for how to learn to code
- Exciting trends Steph sees related to the future of the location-independent movement and remote work
Show notes for this episode:
https://www.radicallydifferentpodcast.com/episodes/designing-your-life-wisdom-from-a-26-year-old-nomadic-coderwritergrowth-hacker-steph-smith
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