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Welcome to the Freaking Nomads Newsletter, your weekly dose of stories, insights, tools, and opportunities for digital nomads and remote workers building a life without borders.

Hey Freaking Nomads,

A while ago, I was sitting in a café in Chiang Mai, and I posted a story on Instagram.

Nothing fancy. It was just my laptop, my coffee, the little street sign outside, and some random caption.

I went there almost every day. And one day, a guy walked in, sat down two tables over, and said hi to me by name.

He matched the café in my story to the city I'd tagged the week before, and just... showed up.

He was totally friendly and nice. Someone who'd been following Freaking Nomads for a while and just wanted to connect.

But I'd be lying if I said my stomach didn't drop a little, at first.

Because I realized I'd basically told the entire internet exactly where I was. In real time!

This is possibly one of the least talked about stuff among nomads.

Some of us (not all!) do use social media to share our day. It's how we stay connected, how some of us even find work.

But there's a version of this that puts you at risk.

Posting your exact location while you're still there. Filming your Airbnb, including the street and the door. Announcing you'll be away from "home" for three weeks to an audience that includes people you've never met.

None of it feels dangerous in the moment. That's the problem.

So lately I've been doing a few small things:

Post on a delay. Share the cafe or the beach after you've left, not while you're still there. Nobody needs to know where you are right now.

Never show the front of where you sleep. No building entrances, no street signs near the Airbnb, no view-from-my-balcony shot that someone can reverse-image back to an address.

Watch what's in the background. A boarding pass with a booking code. A key with a fob number. The name of the coworking space on the wall behind you. People might zoom in.

None of this is about being scared. I still share plenty.

It's more that I've started asking myself, “does this tell a stranger how to find me right now?”

If yes, it can wait.

Curious where you land on this. Do you post in real time, or do you hold things back? Have you ever had a moment that made you rethink it?

Hit reply and tell me.

Until next week,

Irene

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