Comments on: Living on NST – Nomadic Standard Time

By: Take the Serendipity Challenge | Tales from Technomadia

Take the Serendipity Challenge | Tales from Technomadia — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:50:06 +0000

[...] We strive to live our lives embracing nomadic serendipity, and keeping our schedule on Nomadic Standard Time. [...]

By: Tales from Technomadia » Travelogue: St. Louis to Florida

Tales from Technomadia » Travelogue: St. Louis to Florida — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:36:32 +0000

[...] Man and geekery. Our intended couple night stay turned into 5 nights (see what we mean about Nomadic Standard Time?) until we figured we really did need to be on our [...]

By: Chris Dunphy

Chris Dunphy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:17:26 +0000

*laugh*

I did the same thing when I had to give my brother a Best Man’s Toast! I really had no idea what I was going to say when I opened my mouth, but apparently I wowed the room. I’ve always been better making things up on the fly than delivering a canned routine.

By: Andrew MacPherson

Andrew MacPherson — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:22:08 +0000

Most of my nomadic meanderings are conducted solo style so I can avoid making any sort of specific scheduling. The “flake” bit made me smile. I just returned to the boat after almost three weeks of mostly non-tech nomadism evidenced by a few stretches of forced internet deprivation. During that time I became acutely aware that others were a long way from understanding how many variables come into play when traveling without a strict itinerary. I’m pretty sure I even preceded one of my disclaimers with, “I don’t want to sound like a flake, but…”

Within an hour of returning, someone suggested that I sail down the coast to meet up in San Francisco on one or two specific days. It’s bad enough inland. I was delayed for a day because one too close for comfort lightning strike resulted in a canceled day of kayaking… and that was just on a lake. Throw sailing weather windows accounting for wind and waves into the mix and my target date is roughly from here to eternity.

Anyway, I appreciated this post. Thanks for validating my persistent ETA variance syndrome. Or is that just my INTP mind scrambling to develop a logical explanation for something I’d do anyway?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:52:22 +0000

This is much like my plan for my Best Man’s Toast at my brother’s wedding this past weekend.

I had a few quotes I wanted to mention, but I didn’t write anything down.

If there’s no strict specification, then there’s no pressure/stress involved in sticking to that specification.

Taking this into consideration, all I had to deal with was the usual fear of public speaking… =]

By: Cody McKibben

Cody McKibben — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:49:57 +0000

That’s awesome, I love the idea of NST! Unless I have a teaching gig or a consulting call scheduled I also rarely know where I’ll be for dinner or what other wonderful things will happen—when I’m traveling or even staying put in my temporary home, Bangkok! It’s much more fun to embrace chance and serendipity than to try to always stick to a plan. Thanks for sharing!
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