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Even before the past year, the world of work was undergoing a quiet, mobile revolution. A new breed of employees and freelancers were rebranding themselves as digital nomads, and setting up shop on the road – or the beach. Now, as entire industries race to adapt to a world without offices, the revolution is everywhere. Where restrictions permit travel, the pioneers are pushing boundaries and taking their jobs with them. Meanwhile, employers and destinations are working fast to meet soaring demand. But what does the digital nomad need to know before taking off? MR PORTER has consulted a panel of experts.

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The “RV Entrepreneur Summit,” held at a mountaintop lodge overlooking Alabama’s Lake Guntersville in the summer of 2019, promised attendees a long weekend of networking with full-time R.V.ers, workshops, and gear training with “brand ambassadors” from outdoor recreation companies. For as much as $300 a pop, attendees—22-year-olds living out of self-built vans, families with children in pop-up trailers, and grey-haired empty-nesters in house-size R.V.’s who hadn’t quite reached retirement and still needed to work to pay the bills—gathered in the lodge’s conference room, swapping Instagram handles and eating energy bars. I was one of them. At the time, I had been living in a van for nearly a year. Here we would learn how to live out a counterculture lifestyle but keep making money while doing it.

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The number of older adults who use cannabis is on the rise, and some health experts are concerned.

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The move toward a portfolio career has been a popular trend for several years, and the pandemic is accelerating its popularity.

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Experts and entrepreneurs comment on the developments that will come to define their industry

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Across US public lands thousands of people are taking to van life, as featured in the Oscar-tipped film Nomadland

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Breaking up your day by going outside can boost your mood, brainpower, and creativity.

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“Without this hike … it would have been one of those college friendships where you get together and talk about the old days.”

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Made popular by President Dwight Eisenhower, the Eisenhower Matrix is a productivity tool to help separate the important from the urgent.

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Get ready to have a good day by making a few smart moves the night before.

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Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity

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It all comes down to blocking one key neurotransmitter.

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This internet trend is a romantic dreamland full of flowers and sourdough bread that's giving us relief from the grueling pandemic.

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Where am I going to live? The long-term decisions that people make have a huge impact on the economy. And while urbanization has been the dominant trend in r...

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San Francisco's MTA boss Jeff Tumlin is one of a new breed of planner trying to kick cars out of the city. That's good for business, good for people, and amazing for the planet.

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In the olden days when a person died, they were put into a wooden coffin and buried in the ground.  Now there are many different ways to inter someone.

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Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gall...

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My colleagues and I published a couple of different views on the future of “work from home” and remote work last Friday — a story that, if analytics is any sign, really struck a nerve with many of you. That shouldn’t be surprising particularly in the tech industry, where knowledge work fundamentall…

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This temptation to multitask has only gotten worse in the work-from-home era. But there are ways to fight it.

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Take stock of how the pandemic has wrecked your daily routine, and resolve to feel better in the new year.

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Even if 2020 was one long dumpster fire of a year, we sure learned a lot about ourselves. Here's what nearly 1300 people had to say about it.

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Sneak calming activities into your busy day

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How can we do more to help those who may be suffering at the moment – whether from mental health issues, or generally feeling a little bit isolated or down (understandable given the year everyone has had)? This is something we at MR PORTER are asking ourselves this week on the anniversary of our Health In Mind campaign. When our mates are going through a hard time, it can be just as tough to figure out how best to reach out, and what exactly to say. Beyond checking in, is there anything else we can be doing? We teamed up with our friends at Movember to come up with 33 ways to be a better friend. Have a read, below, get stuck in, and, if you like, let us know the results over on our social media hashtag #TIMEwithHIM. Stop scrolling. Call a friend. Check in.

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We might best know how to be bored once we understand what boredom really is.

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Today, the average American family spends about 50 percent of their income on necessities like food and shelter, compared to almost 80 percent in 1901. But though the things we buy might make us happy in the moment, that feeling atrophies over time. Here's how to actually be happy with your purchases.

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We can’t all move to Denmark, but we can bring some of it to us

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YouTuber Mike Shake breaks down the techniques he has found the most useful in switching off at the end of the day.

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Even if you’re broke, clueless, and don’t know where to start

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If you really think about it, the whole idea of a necktie is rather ridiculous. (Check out today’s “From the Archives” like for more about its history.) It is, literally, a noose that you put around your neck. That is, it’s a device not dissimilar to ones used to kill people. And we don’t wear them for practical purposes; they’re fashion over function. But are they dangerous? Maybe. In 2018, Robin Lüddecke and Thomas Lindner, both professors at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, co-led a study to determine just that. Specifically, as their paper notes, “negative cerebrovascular effects can be expected by compressing jugular veins and carotids by a necktie.” Or in other words, they wondered if wearing a tie constricted the amount of blood flowing into the wearer’s brain. Seems like a reasonable thing to guess, but being scientists, an experiment was in order.

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