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- [Narrator] Tech entrepreneur,

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Kevin Unkrich is a digital nomad.

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His minimalist lifestyle is also

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how he runs four tech startups
from his one backpack.

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With a lot of people turning away

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from the daily office lifestyle,

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Kevin shares how he spent
years perfecting being

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a business leader and digital
nomad without an office.

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- Today, I'm actually in a,

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we work in downtown San Francisco

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in the Salesforce Tower.

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I got really interested
in this one bag movement

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which is sort of this
extreme niche of minimalism

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where everything that you
own fits inside of one bag

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and you can take it and go
anywhere you want with it.

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And I got started on that journey

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because I was interested

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in another movement
called digital nomadism.

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- [Woman] Digital nomad,

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noun, a person who earns
a living working online

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in various locations of
their choosing rather than

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a fixed business location.

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- As someone who is professionally trained

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as a software engineer,

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I was aware of different
opportunities there

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where I could work remotely

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for different companies
and actually be able

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to live and work where I wanted.

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Before COVID this was
sort of a novel thing

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this idea that you would work remotely

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and travel wherever you wanted

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and work from islands
and do things like this.

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Like it sounded like a dream,

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but not necessarily a possibility.

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Given that I had all of
my things in one bag,

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it made it much easier
to imagine this lifestyle

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where I could live and
work in different places

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for certain amounts of months at a time.

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What's actually in my bag,

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it's really straightforward.

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Basically what I have
is a capsule wardrobe

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that works for me and my lifestyle.

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And then I also have a tech kit,

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and toiletry kit,

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and then a number of other different items

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from a wallet to a little Tide pen.

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It's about reducing the
cognitive drag on yourself.

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You know,

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when you have things and clutter around,

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it makes it very difficult to focus

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and not get distracted

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by all of these things.

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And then the other part is utility.

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Do I actively use this thing day to day,

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month to month?

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Or is it just sitting in a drawer

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and I don't actually need it?

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And then it's about enabling
the rest of your life.

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So it's about the relationships,

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career goals that you have,

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things like this.
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What we try to do is conduct a lot of

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the recruiting and
interviewing process online

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over conference calls and
then effectively bring

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the team together at least twice a year,

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potentially also for their onboarding.

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And then we have a number of mechanisms

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within our company that we use to try

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to help build rapport and actually create

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a team morale effect.

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A lot more people are going

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to be interested in working remotely

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and have the freedom to move
around and work their job

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from anywhere and switch cities,

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do things like this.

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And so I think we're gonna see people take

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that route a lot more often.

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