博客与个人写作2011alexmaccaw.co.uk
旅行、写作与编程
Traveling, Writing and Programming
导读
这是一篇关于边旅行、边写作、边远程编程的个人经历帖，评论区围绕“远程工作+旅行”这种生活方式展开讨论。对写作者来说，值得读的地方在于：它提供了“生活即素材”的写作视角，也提醒我们，写作与职业选择、生活处境之间有着真实的张力。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把旅行中的具体场景、对话和细节写下来，比概括“我去了哪里”更有叙事价值。
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写个人经历时，可以同时呈现自由与代价，避免把某种生活方式写成单向度的成功学。
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回应读者时，区分“职业可能性”和“生活处境”，能让讨论更诚实、更有层次。
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用自己的真实数字和例子（收入、时间安排）支撑观点，比空泛的鼓励更有说服力。
HN 评论精选
远程旅行的门槛主要来自生活处境，而非职业本身。
程序员是最容易远程工作并旅行的职业，却偏偏最少这么做。但作者认为，能否远程旅行更多取决于生活处境，而非职业：婚姻、孩子、配偶工作、宠物、照顾老人、社区责任、房贷等都会形成牵绊。他感谢 Alex 让自己在几分钟里“代偿式”体验了一年旅行生活，故事有趣，照片很美。
edw519查看英文原文
The peculiar thing about programmers is that they're the one profession that can easily work remotely and travel, and yet they're the one profession that doesn't. I believe that the ease with which one "can easily work remotely and travel" is affected far more by life situation than by profession. Modern technology has made it just as easy for non-programming electronic workers to do this, too. "Life situation" is another matter. Just a few of the things that make it difficult for some people to do this: - marriage - children - spouse's job - pets - caring for elderly parents/others - community commitments - financial responsibilities (mortgage, etc.) As one who is tethered to his home and family, I thank you, Alex, for allowing me to live vicariously through your year for the past 5 minutes. The stories were interesting and the pictures were beautiful. </BackToRegressionTestNumber127BeforeThePhoneRingsAgainAndTheCatNeedsFed>
很多人不行动，不是缺钱，而是缺乏对替代生活方式的想象和承担风险的意愿。
这位评论者已经边旅行边运营自己的网站几年，刚在德国住了三个月，又因欧盟签证到期转去哥伦比亚。别人听到他的生活方式通常震惊、羡慕，并以为他是百万富翁；他想说，如今互联网无处不在，不必很有钱也能这样做，他可能比坐办公室的人挣得还少。但没人相信他，或者相信了也不愿承担风险。他有点难过：很多人被困在现状里，是因为根本想象不到还有别的选择；也有点高兴：自己居然真的做到了。
acabal查看英文原文
I've been traveling the world and running my site, Scribophile, for a few years now. I just spent 3 months in Germany living with my girlfriend, and now that my EU visa is up I'm in Colombia for a few months enjoying the warm weather in Cali. Whenever I tell people about my lifestyle, they 1) are shocked and awed, 2) enthuse about how jealous they are, and 3) assume I'm a millionaire. I wish I could just grab people by their collars to shake them and say, "We live in a marvelous time! With internet access everywhere, you too can do what I do! Plus, you don't have to be rich to do it--I probably make much less money than you do at your desk job!" Nobody believes me, and if they do, they don't want to take the risk. (To be fair not everyone is able to do so, even if they wanted to.) So they stay jealous. It always makes me a little sad that people stay stuck in their situations often because they can't even envision an alternative, and a little happy that I somehow managed to make it happen myself.
不按标准职业路径生活是可行的，而且通往多种“成功”。
也许只是他所在的圈子如此，但他认识不少技术背景的人，并没有遵循“进大公司、住在大学附近”的标准路径。实现这种生活有多种方式，而且确实可行；许多正常、理智的人都从中受益，也可以由此走向常规的中产职业路径，或在海外继续发展，只是“成功”的定义各不相同。
patio11查看英文原文
Maybe it is just the crowd I hang out with, but I know a lot of technically inclined people who didn't quite get the memo when people were told to a) work for a big megacorp b) close to where they went to college. There are a variety of ways to do it. They really do work. Plenty of normal, sane, well-adjusted people take advantage of them. There are avenues forward from them to either standard middle class career paths at home or continued success abroad, for a variety of values of "success."
把工作与探索交错安排，可能同时提升效率与体验。
他支持边旅行边远程工作：今年在澳大利亚和非洲待了两个月，一半工作一半玩。工作刺激身体，探索新地方刺激精神（虽然说起来有点老套）。他每周工作约 50 小时，发现早上 8 点到下午 2、3 点做户外活动、晚上工作到 10 或 11 点，既高效又愉快。最后还好奇地问作者：20 岁是怎么拿到 O'Reilly 的出书合同的？
lpolovets查看英文原文
+1 for traveling and working remotely. I was lucky enough to spend 2 months in Australia and Africa this year, and a lot of that time was 1/2 work and 1/2 fun. It's a great combo: working stimulates the body and exploring new places stimulates the spirit. (Ugh, that sounds way cornier than I hoped.) I have a ~50 hour/week job, and I was I was surprised by how effective and pleasant it was to go do outdoorsy things from 8am until 2 or 3pm, and then work until 10 or 11 at night. On a completely unrelated note: Alex, I'm really curious, how did you manage to get a book deal with O'Reilly at the age of 20?
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