187 - Free Cities Have a People Problem | Daniel Thompson
About this episode
Timothy Allen discusses the challenges of attracting and retaining people in free cities with Daniel Thompson.
Building New Cities Starts With People: Digital Nomads, Families, and the Minimum Viable Society – Daniel Thompson is the co-founder and CEO of Noma Collective, a global community of remote workers, location-independent professionals and, increasingly, families, who travel and live together in different parts of the world a month at a time. Born and raised in the UK to a family of musicians, he spent his early twenties in music marketing and PR and ran one of the biggest weekly nights in the dubstep scene before leaving to travel. After two years on the road he settled in Buenos Aires, where he launched the country's first arts members club, and spent summers running large-scale European festivals including Outlook, Dimensions and Secret Solstice. He moved to Belize in 2019, and when the pandemic hit he reopened a hotel as a pop-up co-live that became Noma Collective in 2020. He has since acquired the work-travel program Hacker Paradise, and now develops the ideas at the centre of this conversation: his "7 Stages of Remote Life" framework and his new Minimum Viable Society project. He is based in Mérida, Mexico. Timothy Allen sits down with Daniel in Próspera for a conversation…
People in this episode
Host: Timothy Allen
Guest: Daniel Thompson
Topics covered
- free cities
- digital nomadism
- community building
- remote work
- minimum viable society
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Noma Collective
Places: Mérida, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Belize
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