Here we have him, one of the best known minimalists, full-time traveller, author, entrepreneur,
amazing person, Colin Wright. Let's ask him some questions about his unconventional
life.
Hey Colin. The first question is: "What's your schedule like on a common day and is
it different from that of other people."
Yeah, probably, I, honestly, I don't really have a typical schedule, it changes a little
bit everyday based on where I am at and so as a result I've got like little habits
things I'll try to do everyday. But it really adjusts, sometimes completely, sometimes I
don't do any of these things, each and every day based on where I am at, what I am up to,
who's around, what I'm trying to accomplish. I try to workout a bit every day, I try to
eat pretty well, I try to, I take a lot of walks, I try to write every day. Usually I
have anywhere between fifty and couple hundred emails to answer so I take the time to do
that and and whatever else is interesting to me at the time. I try to read a whole lots
both on the internet and books, I read like a crazy person, so I take a lot time to do
that. So in that way the fact that I have such immense flexibility, I think it's the
main differentiating factor between my day and most people's day. A lot of my friends,
they'll go to work during the day or have set hours of some kind. I don't have any
set hours and so as a result I'm always working and not working. If you have an entrepreneur
in your life you know what I'm talking about. Where on one hand it seems like "oh, no
work hours, it's got to be vacation," but on the other hand what it really means
is that they're kind of working all the time and that's where I'm at to, where've
got, I'm very fortunate to do for a living things that I love, so I am doing that stuff
all the time anyway it just also happens to be attached to the work that I do full time
to make my living. So lot of my day revolves around that revolves around traveling to different
places and doing that same non-standard day to day schedule.
And do you have something like habitual intro you live by every time you move to a new country.
No, kind of like I said on the last question. I don't have any particular schedule. I
usually fall into some habits depending on where I'm living in a giving country. So in
Prague, which is the last place overseas that I was living, I had a very different working,
writing, walking, eating routine than most places. It was very very easy to go to nice
restaurants, which were just right next to my apartment essentially. So my habits usually
involved like a long walk in the morning followed by lunch, then going home and writing for
four or five hours and going up finding something to eat and little coffee sit downs mixed in.
Whereas when I was living in Kolkata in India, there's not the same coffee culture or restaurant
culture and walking can be kind of trial in certain circumstances because I was outside
the center of town. So my habits as a result were very very different. So it changes pretty
dramatically each and every place but, I sort of achieve the same objectives each time to
allow me to do the things that I enjoy, take care of the things that everybody has to take
care of like eating and then also working on the things that I care about.
I suppose every time you move to a new country you try to find friends there. Do you have
any verified way on how to make new friendships simply.
Yeah, I mean, two main things. One is to not be afraid of looking like an idiot, which
is difficult to get passed in lot of cases because we tend to as humans be just like
terrified, abjectly terrified of looking foolish. Some people are more afraid of looking foolish
than dying or being put in situation that's incredibly dangerous. Typically if you willing
to talk to people you're halfway there and then the other half is just the other thing
that I would recommend is be a nice person, don't be a jerk, don't be an opportunist,
don't be the type of person that looks at other people as resources or as a means to
an end or somebody that will get you something. Yeah be nice, be a decent person, be friendly,
be helpful, give before you try to get, that type of thing. If you're willing to do that
if you're willing to be able to reach out the people and be the type of person they
want to have around you'll never have any trouble making friends and establishing relationships.
So just focus on that if you don't have that already, go open talk to some strangers
and be nice and see what you can do for them and, you know, be good to your existing relationships
too and you've got everything you need.
How do you prepare before you move to another country?
Very little, actually. I try not to prepare. I like arriving in a place and not knowing
much at all. I really like being surprised. So I actually, my routine for this is that
I'll start cruising the internet to for cheap tickets to see how I can get there at lowest
cost possible and then I kind of know of what that point how far in advance I'm preparing.
Sometimes it's just week, sometimes its couple of weeks I usually adjust based on
prices and then within that timeframe I start to do just the most the tiniest bit of research.
Usually it's only reading the Wikipedia article of a given place just enough so that
I know kind of which city in a country I want to go to. Because my readers determine which
country I'll be moving to I decide on the city so I read the Wikipedia entry. I can
usually get a pretty good idea of which city I want to live in based on that information
along with dominant language spoken, what religion people tend to be, if any, and bit
about a history. Enough so that I can go and not offend people right away pretty much and
then I like to learn rest on the ground. So my research really is kept to minimum because
to me learning from people actually in the country is both part of the adventure and
the best part or the best way to get information that is not biased based on what your government
or media or whoever is trying to tell you about that place.
And now, tell us which countries You have visited yet.
Oh gosh. The list is getting fairly substantial. It's been 35 or 40 countries and I don't
think I can list them all. A lot of that places that I've lived I started with let's see
with an Argentina, New Zealand, Thailand, Iceland, India, Romania, feel like I'm missing
a couple countries here, Czech Republic. There's been a whole lot and in between I tend to
do road trips, overland trips, so you do by train or by bus or whatever. If you like the
rest of the continent. When I was living in Argentina I travelled all of South America.
In between I'll often come back and travel North America so the United States and Canada
in particular to just see more of my home country, my home continent as well, cause
there's so much here to see, and I've done all, I've done 48 of up to 50 states
here and in a lot of ways each of them is kind of like different micro-country. So they've
been very much worth my time to visit as well.
You mentioned Czech Republic. Because I live there, show me this country through your eyes
please.
To me, Czech Republic, which was my last home country away from the United States, was,
it was really wonderful. Like there is something very interesting to me about Central Europe,
or Eastern Europe depending on, you know, what you call it. Those kind of former Soviet
satellite states are really remarkable, because they have such a recent history in terms of
upheaval and rebirth. And so there is like these really rich deep histories and then
like couple cutting of points where those histories were shattered or broken or rebuilt
in some different way. And so as a result you get this strange combination of architectural
types and food and arts and attitudes about the world and about people. Which I really
find inspiring, like it's really cool, full of amazing people, like most places where
I've been but I'm still shocked sometimes about how friendly people are even when culturally
maybe there's a coldness compared to what I'm accustomed to, coming from the US. Really
really great. And in terms of cost of living to quality of life, the ratio was very friendly,
especially if you're spending in US dollars, it was great. You can get really really good
meal for about half of what you would get in the city that size in the United States.
So for me in terms of lifestyle it was great. It wasn't particularly challenging in any
way that there weren't a lot of cultural mores or folkways that were strange to me
in the way that like living in India. So many things there was so unfamiliar it took me
a while to get a grasp on it. In Czech Republic people are pretty metropolitan, people love
travel or they know people from all over the world so it wasn't isolated in the same
way that lot of other places that I've been where. So just a very very pleasant, very
beautiful, very culturally rich place.
Nice. Could You share some exciting or funny moments from your journeys with us.
Oh gosh, yeah this is kind of like listing countries where, I can go on and on at length
and often do, but let see. You know, there's been a couple times when I've been in very
uncomfortable situations. One of these times was very early on in my travels I decided
to take a bus from Argentina to Peru. And the Argentine bus companies are really wonderful.
They're like super high quality very very cheap and what you get for the money is amazing.
And I checked it out and to take a bus trip from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Lima, Peru
was like three days so as about 72 hours. And the cost of ticket was nothing and I've
been on these buses before and they were really lovely so I was kind of thinking "Ok, not
a bad way to spend three days on these very high-end buses with great food, very comfortable
seats, Wi-Fi and outlets." I can sit and I can write and it just seem like really great
way to spend my time. So I got a ticket and it turns out that this is the one time I ended
up with a company, a bus company, that was not Argentine and it was, I think it was Peruvian
country, a Peruvian company. So the bus standards where significantly less. Rather than nice
great big leather seats and Wi-Fi and even like games of bingo and stuff that they put
on while you're traveling. I was essentially sitting in a bus full of chickens and goats.
A lot of the windows didn't open or some didn't close. Full of these big fat flies
that were buzzing around you the entire time. The bathroom was broken, the driver was drunk,
there was a spare driver kept underneath sleeping on our luggage, that was also drunk. And we
were driving just weaving our way up these massive mountains with the roads were tiny.
I felt for sure several times we're going fall off especially when they're driving
on these roads in the middle of the night and especially because these drivers were
drunk. But we made it. We survived. It was just one of the most trying three days of
my entire life. It was so bad. It was funny. It was hilarious the entire time. Every time
something would escalate and get worse I would just laugh my ass off. And that's really
all you can do at some points, is just to look at the bad things and say "My god,
this is so uncomfortable now, but it's going to be a great story later." Like that's
how you travel, that's the attitude you have to have I think because travel above
all else is typically uncomfortable and imperfect. And if you can embraced that then you're
really going to enjoy it, but if you can't you're going to be in trouble.
Back to the beginning. How did you get into the minimalist lifestyle. Have you ever heard
about it before or did you just start to live it because it had worked for you?
It's a strange, little bit of both. So, wait to this truck to pass…enough that's
coming through the speaker. For me it was little bit of both. For about six years ago,
when I started my blog I hadn't heard of it and I just decided basically to reduce
my number of possessions down to what I could fit into carry-on luggage. Because it seemed
practical, it seemed to make sense and it didn't make sense to put a bunch of like
computer equipment and clothing away in storage because when I got back the clothing might
not fit or be radically out of style or and the computers will be definitely be too old
to be useful. So I sold all the stuff, gave away the stuff I couldn't sell and yeah
just had very very few things. I didn't realize how few things until later. Then I
started writing about this and how this was very liberating feeling and how it would have
freed me up to focus on these other things that I really cared about. And yeah I mean
people started telling me "Wow that's so cool you are a minimalist," and I said
"Yeaah, yeah, ok I'm a minimalist," and I started to call myself minimalist and
as I progressed since started writing about it more and then I'm like "Ok, yes, this
really is a philosophy, this philosophy of focusing on the important stuff and removing
the unimportant stuff from your life so that you have more of your time, energy and resources
to spend on the important stuff. At the time, at the beginning it was just a practical thing,
then I haven't really thought it trough. And it took me about year probably to really
fully flash out my personal brand of minimalism and my philosophy about it. And there's
lot of, you know, deviations from it, different people consider the title to main different
things or whatever. I don't think there is a right or wrong way to do it, but for
me it was it was kind of a stumbled upon practical thing that then turned into a core philosophy.
Did you eliminate your things in like one day or was it a longer process?
It was a long process. For me it was not a one day get rid of everything, for me it was
about four months worth of trying to get rid of all the shit I had. And I had a lot of
stuff just this great big walk in closet full of clothing and like eight computers and all
this furniture and all this …. that you accumulate when you are making a lot of money
and feel like you need to spend it to be happy. And that's the point of where I was at when
I was living in Los Angeles as that I was trying to spend money in order to make myself
happy rather than making myself happy and allowing that to determine what I spend money
on. So it took a while. We had a completely separate rooms set up actually in my townhouse
just that I called garage sale room. Full of stuff that I needed to get rid of and we
would have people over which just say "Hey dude, do you want anything in the garage sale
room cause it's just taking us forever get rid of it" and down to the last day that
I was in LA, right before I left town, I still had stuff I hadn't got rid off. So I just
I took it into the Goodwill and gave it to them, donated it, got a tax deduction, which
is I guess the best you can hope for in some points and left the country. So it's a process.
In most cases you not gonna be able to do it in one day I think. And less you already
have a you know kind of small number of possessions already.
Have You ever though about how long you will live this way?
Yeah, often, actually. I check in with myself probably every three or four months just to
make sure I'm still doing the right thing. Right thing in this case being not absolute
but for me, for what I want right now. And so far the answers always been yes, but I
even I kind of test myself and I look at real estate, I look at apartments, I look at you
know computers and gadgets and things, the clothing that I could be buying if I didn't
have to worry about just fitting everything into one bag. And it doesn't tempt me, it
doesn't tempt me away, non any significant way, away from what I'm doing and even tho
there are aspects of that life I miss - having more substantial wardrobe and you know having
the freedom to get certain furniture and have a space that I can have consistently. That's
appealing in some way, but it wouldn't be worth the trade off. Not to give up the freedom
that I have. So I do consider to continue to test myself tho, so there, maybe one day
that I'll be like "Ok, yeah, now it's worth it. Now it's time to stop this and
go to something else," but not so far. As of now this is still the ultimate lifestyle
for what I want to get out of life.
Do you remember any situations when you were telling yourself I want to stay and live here
for the rest of my life or on the other side I want to move back home, now.
Yeah, you know, honestly in every single place that I've lived at some point I've said
"I could live here. Do I want to live here? Should I live here?" And I've kind of
consider that and really allowed myself to go completely down that mental path. And every
time so far, like I said with the possessions, every time so far it hasn't been worth the
trade off and no matter how amazing that place has been, and I've been fortunate to live
in some amazing places, it has not been worth what I would be giving up. Which is that freedom
of movement and that freedom of essentially being able to call the world my home. And
as a result then I don't really have a home to feel sick for. If I did have a space somewhere
an apartment or something that I kept and I had my desk and my furniture and my clothing
and such that I left there then I might get homesick for something because I would then
be comparing every place that I go to that place. As it is I don't have place like
that and so I have no means comparison. And so I attend to double down more and focus
more on wherever I happened to be and making that my home. Rather than trying to compare
to some far of place. So to me that works much better for what I want that works much
better and that allows me then not to get homesick because I'm always home. I just have
a lot of them.
What inspired you or made you live this way.
Aah, couple things. I've always wanted to travel. And that was the dream that I've had
for quite while actually because of what it represented to me. I'm somebody that needs
to know things, I love learning and trying new things and having new experiences and
seeing new perspectives like flashing out the mental map of all the knowledge that there
is to have on the world. And as a result I've always been a big reader and a talker. Asking
people questions, but seeking out knowledge and information wherever I can find it. And
it became apparent to me, I think at high school, that books, you can get a lot from
books and you can get a lot from the internet and things like that, but there's some things
that even know you could describe them to someone else or give the data to somebody
else. Some things are best experienced or only experienced through being there, through
being on the ground, going and doing and feeling and you get this perspective that you can't
really attain through somebody else's eyes. So I knew I wanted to do it I kept putting
it off because I was running businesses and stuff since I was 19 so I always had other
more important things to worry about. And it was when I was 24, it took that long for
me to find my saying "You know, enough is enough. I need to go travel now while I'm
young, so that if I make some big stupid mistakes I can still bounce back from it. Not that
you can't when you're older, you know I can be 60 still going out and having fun
and making amazing mistakes, but it's easier I think when you are younger to do it and
more socially acceptable on a lot of ways. It's just, it's kind of a bias towards
being able to do silly foolish things and have it be considered ok. It looks weirder
if you're older. So I wanted to do it when it was probably more expected and people would
forgive me rather than shaking their heads and you know writing me off.
Let's travel in time a little bit. What did you want to be when you were young? And
how has it changed as you've grown up? What changed your mind?
I've wanted to be all kinds of things. When I was a kid I wanted to be a comic book artist
like an illustrator for comic books, very very into comic books. And then kind of a
fine artist as well like a painter and illustrator of all different sorts. Journalist when I
was in high school and college in particular ,which I really appreciate journalism and
writing. And there was a point when I was really into math and I kind of wanted to be
a chaos theorist or somebody in high theory side of math, very very different now. And
I don't know today what I do is a combination kind of a amalgamation of all of these things
were I really wanted to do creative work, I love writing, I love visual work, I love
art and design, I like communicating and telling stories and sharing information and that's
kind of what I get to do today. So even tho I'm not doing it the way I would have maybe
predicted as a kid I'm certainly doing these things. I'm just doing it as kind of this
working in profession that's very hard to describe. I'm an author, that's how I make
the majority of my money, but I do a bunch of other things as well either for fun or
for profit. And as a result I don't feel like I'm missing out on any of these things.
So kind of waving back through time at my childhood self and I'm hoping you would be
proud because I'm getting to do those things even if maybe you know I'm not making comic
books. But maybe I will, I don't know. I have the option that's the nice thing.
Could you share with us some lessons from your life? And do you live by any motto?
So my motto is actually kind of one of these lessons. It's you have exactly one life
and no more than that in which you do everything you'll ever do and as a result you should
probably take that into consideration with every decision that you make. For me this
is what kind of jolted me back to reality and made me realize that putting of traveling
was not something I can just doing definitely. And if I put it off in my twenties, if I put
it off whenever. You know, I first thought about it as like a real reality, something
that I needed to get on and start doing soon, than I'd just put it off forever and I wouldn't
have second chance it's not like I can go back and try my twenties over again. So yeah
that's something that I taken to account with every single thing I do and it was a
lesson that was kind of put together, cabled together from different things that I'd read
and different things that I'd seen and just kind of thinking about it and realizing "Holy
hell, I'm acting as if I have my entire life to sacrifice and then to live later. As if
I'm going to do the work I don't want to do up in till I'm 50 and then retire, or 60
now I think, and then retire and then live," but that is, if I'm lucky, anything after
that retirement age is like the latter half of my life. And chances are statistically
it's only couple decades still in most places of the world and you're not in top health
and you're not enough young to make these stupid decisions socially in socially acceptable
way. So to me it just completely do not make sense to sacrifice any of this time that I
had. And even if I failed even if I pushed in direction of something that I really really
wanted and was passionate about and failed that still would be time better spend than
being very comfortable doing something that I don't enjoy and I don't believe in.
So that's probably the biggest most core essential argument that I've learned and the
motto that I live by. I would also say that the minimalist philosophy, the idea of "oh
there's a cat behind me," the minimalist idea of focusing on the things that really
matter and then issuing getting rid of the stuff that doesn't matter that's incredibly
valuable. And it's amazing how much time and energy and money and other resources you
actually have when you're not spending them on stupid stuff or on things that you told
you suppose to want but which don't actually make you happy. And just that lesson alone
actually freed up so much time that like I'm able to do everything that I want to do and
still have so much free time. It's absolutely ridiculous and I get to be crazy productive
at doing the stuff because I love it I throw myself into it. But at the same time I've
got plenty of extra to play with and try other things and new things and to contribute my
time to other people if I want to. And to just waste time. Doing nothing at all. Just
relaxing, getting plenty of sleep, eating well, exercising. Focusing on that, focusing
on how you apply these resources is very very good investment and kind of allows you then
to figure out lot of other important things, that may not align with what I think. What's
important to you won't necessary be important to me and vice-versa, but if you free up that
time then you're able to find what is important to you and become the best possible version
of you possible.
Is there anything you could say this lifestyle gave you.
Yeah, everything. It gave me my time, it gave me my resources, it gave me a perspective
in which, what's important and what I believe in and what I like doing and what I'm passionate
about or actually important. And not just "oh maybe someday dreamy sort of life,"
but like actually core to everything that I do. Being able to say for example that I
won't work with assholes. I do not do business with people I think are jerks. And being able
to say that is a result of this lifestyle of being free enough to be able to make decisions
that I believe in ethically and morally and philosophically rather than struggling and
having to make decisions like on a survival basis. Having to make decisions and saying
well I have to do business with these people otherwise I won't survive. The fact that
I can survive on so little allows me to make those decisions and the fact that I know exactly
what to spend what I have on allows me to make those decisions so that's been a huge
thing that I've gotten from this lifestyle.
Could you share with us some of your most life-changing moments and is there anything
you could send as a message to young people based on those experiences?
Yeah, not one specific moment, but I will tell you that every place I've gone in the
world people have been wonderful. And not just like "oh yeah, people are so friendly"
and not like "oh what tourism industry, they're trying to sell you something so
they're friendly." I don't live in a touristy part of town, I live with locals,
I go to the grocery store, I eat what they eat, I listen to music that they listen to,
I hang out where they hang out. People are generally good. Everywhere you're on the
world. 99.99999 percent of people are awesome. And they will go out of their way to make
sure that you have a good time and to make sure that you are safe and to make sure that
you have nothing but good memories of their home and their culture. There is very incredibly
small percentage of people who are jerks out there. And they'll be the memorable ones,
so if you encounter one you'll remember them, but they're not a good representation
of that culture or that country. So remember that don't be afraid of other people and
other cultures. I mean be careful, don't put your wallet in your back pockets so that
people can pick it. Don't get drunk and go wander around town cause then you're
being a jerk but you're also making yourself an easy target for the people who are pickpockets
and such. But in general be less afraid. Be less concerned because we're all people
and everybody is just, we are all people who happened to be born in different places, have
to be happened to have grown up under different cultures and lifestyles and religions and
whatever, but at core we are all people and treat each other as such. Like if somebody
comes to your town you're not gonna let them get victimized and it's the same overseas.
These people are not aliens, they're not any different than you, so go interact, you
know, learn what they have to share and share what you have with them as well and be amazed.
That's something that I would give advice to anybody at any age, but young people in
particular because there's still a lot of time to grow and learn and earlier you learn….go
start encountering these other ideas and perspectives the more value you'll get from them.
Has your way of thinking changed along with your lifestyle transformation and how?
Yeah, It's opened up broadly. I no longer think that anything is impossible. I'm pretty
damn sure actually that everything is possible. I have massive amount of faith in humanity.
The things that I've seen and encountered and experienced has reaffirmed this believe
that I have that humanity's good and we're capable of anything and that's. You know,
there's very small group of people who are, who ruined that in a lot of ways. You know,
typically people in power or, you know, politicians and stuff like that. There's lot of people
who get into positions of power who are not the best people in the world. But typically
people around the world are wonderful and typically the solutions to all of our problems
I think are out there. Especially if you work together. So that's I kind of felt that
way before but it's been very much confirmed by traveling and just seen what's out there
and different ideas and having my mind blown many times by the perspectives of other people
had to offer.
It is known that you have about fifty things, could you tell us briefly what's in your
backpack and pockets now?
Yeah, it's funny, I had fifty things probably three or four years ago and that's still
like one of the more popular posts I think at my blog, but I don't actually know how
many things I have anymore. I tend not to count because I feel that it gives false impression
that to be a minimalist you have to own very few things and that's not the case. You
can own a lot of things as long as the things that you own bring you joy and they're things
that you're passionate about. That's exactly what you should own. That's what possessions
are for and there's nothing wrong with consumption, just compulsory consumption, feeling like
you have to own something, there's something wrong with that. But buying things that bring
you joy that's wonderful. and for me I travel so I own very few things because owning more
would prevent me from pursuing the thing that makes me happiest, which is travel. So not
everybody should own fifty things. Not everybody should own a hundred things. Not everybody
should own two hundred things. Like the level of, the lower number of possessions will not
make you happier. It will only make you happier if that aligns with what you trying to do
with your life. So let's know that first. That being said what I do I own I have two
bags actually, kind of a more of a split duffle bag where I carry some clothing. And then
like a laptop bag where I carry my laptop and some charging cables and some notebooks
and some pants and what a spare battery, hard drive, little point and shoot camera. And
in my pockets I've got like wallet that has a notebook and little pen attached to it and
a smartphone. That mean, that's kind of it, there's not a lot of gadgetry going
on. I find usually the simpler you travel the better of you are and the most prepared
you are for the things you actually need and use. I don't use a lot of tricky travel
gear or anything. Every once in while I'll come across something that seems really cool
and maybe I'll use it for a bit but in a lot of cases, I just, a lot of this stuff is available.
So if I need something I can buy it wherever I end up. And it's much better to safe my
money and then just buy stuff as I needed rather than, you know, filling up my bag that
I have to carry with a bunch of excess stuff.
I've read on your blog that you worked as a designer and now you are publishing and
writing books. For whom are your books and what can we find in them?
My books are for everybody, I like to think. I've written a bunch of books now, like
thirty books or something like that. And most of the newer ones are fiction, but I've written
in the past about travel, about business, about like relationships and networking. I
have written about a curation online. I've written about philosophy a couple books on
philosophy - Act Accordingly and Considerations. And then I've written a whole lot of short
story collections of various types of fiction. A couple science-fiction series as well and
couple kind of just generic fiction, literally fiction I guess you'd call it, types of
books. So I'm just I'm writing all the time and I really I write about whatever is interesting
to me at the time. And if I come up with an idea like "Oh i wish that book existed,"
then I'll just all write it. With a non-fiction I write about things that I feel. I have some
expertise in. Something that I either do for living or have education in or just have the
opportunity to explore quite a bit and write on quite a bit. And then I'll write a book
about it eventually once I feel I've reached the point where I have something valuable
to say. Something that I would feel comfortable charging people for. And even up until that
point I'll just write about it for free online, on my blog and in my newsletter and such.
Yeah and then the fiction's kind of the same way where I have these ideas or come
up with these concepts, hear about new technology or come up with an interesting plot point
and then I'll write about it. And I'll flash out the story try to make it as entertaining
and interesting as possible. Try to fit in couple mind bending type of things so that
people actually walk away feeling that they learned something in addition to having been
entertained. And then I publish. And thankfully I work with some wonderful people and have
a wonderful infrastructure now through which to publish so this part of process has become
much easier.
And final questions - how did you meet The Minimalists.
Oh, so Josh and Ryan have been friends of mine for a long time. They contacted me a
long time ago, many years ago. And they were reading my blog and we're starting to minimize
their lifestyles and we're doing that. I killed a job with it and I ended up meeting
with Josh and we stayed in touch after that point. And they ended up starting a blog and
really kicking butt with it and introducing a whole new point of view within a minimalism
space. And yeah we kept in touch and helped support each other long away. And then eventually
decided with Asymmetrical press to go on business together because we've had very similar
ideas about business, about publishing, about not doing business with assholes and about,
just kind of what were we thought things are going. The type of business that we'd like
to do and we're had very complementary skill sets. So very very happy to be working with
those guys because Josh and Ryan and everybody else who's involved with Asymmetrical actually,
they're just amazing people and they do amazing work and it's very very humbling
to surround yourself with people like that.
Thank You very very much Colin, I'm glad you made some time for us. Your life stories
are amazing and I'm sure people will find them inspiring. Enjoy your travels and once
again thanks. And is there anything You'd like to say to close this interview?
So again my name is Colin Wright, you know, thank's for the interview questions and
happy to record the answers. Hopefully there's some value in there. If you want to see more
of my work you can go to exilelifestyle.com or colin.io where my books are. And then I'm
on twitter and Instagram and a lot of other places under the handle colinismyname, so
feel free to reach out to me on any of those and say "Howdy". Thank you so much.
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