W.N.
Field Notes from Bali
— A working ship-log —
Part client work. Part travel. Part the slow realization that the best office is whichever one you can pack into a 30-litre bag.
48
weeks away
6
cities
14
client builds
1
backpack
The last three weeks were spent wiring an n8n pipeline for Nomad CEO. 51 nodes. Daily + weekly. Costs $0.30 per cycle. Built mostly from a wooden table with one power socket and a morning storm rolling in.
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Two were scope creep, one was a values misalignment. All three paid on time. Firing them opened the window for better work within ten days. Filter by signal, not by urgency.
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Every nomad eventually does the financial plumbing week. Mine was in KL — opened a regional account, wired the C-Corp, moved Wise to multi-currency. Boring day. Saved 7% in FX friction downstream.
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Chiang Mai in the dry season is the best focus month on earth. No rain. No humidity. Cafés full of people who are also working. I shipped more in December-to-January than I did in all of Q3.
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Pakistan is where I learned to ship. Bali is where I learned to price. Every year I go back for Eid, and every year I come back to ASEAN with a little more conviction about what the business should be.
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Fiverr. 2019. Home office in Islamabad. 18-hour days. Bad internet, good pay by local standards.
Yes. Travel weeks are admin-light. Build weeks I rent a coworking and lock in — no sightseeing, same deliverable cadence as a home office.
Email, Slack Connect, WhatsApp. Calendly for sync calls. Async-first otherwise.
Manila in Q3. Then Japan for the first time this winter. Clients stay on the same cadence regardless.
— If you are building something serious —
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