Edward McWilliams

AI isn’t taking your job.
It’s taking the part of your job you secretly hated.

Comfort kills more dreams than failure ever will.

A Texas Nomad is for the ones who left the default.

We used to travel to see the world.
Now we travel to see ourselves

(just in better lighting.)

The most dangerous part of travel isn’t the risk.
It’s how quickly “somewhere else” starts to feel like home.

The worst productivity advice I followed for years? Morning routines.

In today’s ATN:

Lisbon used to be the dream. Now it’s the warning. Digital nomads are reshaping cities, and not always for the better.

This isn’t guilt. It’s design.

We wrote a Code for what comes next:

First, it’s your talent.
Then, it’s your taste.

What you build is who you choose.

why does picking minutes on those scroll apps feel like i’m about to win a jet ski on the price is right

Betray your intuition and the win won’t feel like one.

Creativity isn’t a thought.
It’s a signal in the body, a rhythm, a pulse, a pull toward something strange.
If you only think your way through it,
you’ll miss the part that’s alive.

When in doubt,
Don’t choose the boring option.
You weren’t built for beige.

Most people don’t want freedom. They want a better boss.

Showered. Caffeinated.
Ready to commit one beautiful act of delusion.

Discipline didn’t change my life. Obsession did.

5-steps to bring back childhood wonder:

1. Go somewhere new this weekend
2. Learn one thing you’re bad at
3. Leave your phone in airplane mode all morning
4. Do something useless (but beautiful)
5. Reflect on it before bed

Magic returns.

The arc of history bends toward tools.
Fire. Wheels. Penicillin.
AI is next… if we aim it right.

Most expats plateau at comfort.
They never let the place rewire them.
They never cross the threshold.

This week in A Texas Nomad:

• The 3 Levels of Expat
• Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter
• A dangerous claim: Happy Gilmore 2 is better than the first

🗺️ Don’t escape. Design.

atexasnomad.com

Anything you do, you might let others down but if you don’t do anything you will certainly let yourself down.

Flaws are the new proof of life.
Perfection looks AI.

When you start choosing calm over chaos, you stop reacting to noise and start protecting your energy.

Your environment becomes your mirror.

It’s not the degree or the dollar, it’s the dragons you’re willing to face.

Education opens doors. But persistence walks through fire.

Fail boldly. Bleed forward. Mastery belongs to those who keep showing up after the fall.

A Texas Nomad Not another ‘quit your job’ blog—this is creative reinvention on airplane mode.

Travel won’t save you.

But the right kind of movement will melt your false self.

That’s why I write A Texas Nomad: for builders who don’t want to escape…

They want to design.

www.atexasnomad.com

I don’t live in one place.
I live inside a story I designed.
Borders are background.

Dogs are the last job robots will take.
Guard the house? Sure, maybe.

But unconditional love in exchange for a handful of kibbles?

Doubt it.

Most success stories are just people with an unusually high tolerance for uncertainty, and a weird belief they’ll figure it out eventually.

Everyone’s watching podcasts for “insight.”
Try a movie. Try a poem.
Your brain’s starving for something weird.

You gonna keep watching that same dude over and over again like a fruit loop.

A great leader should be the dumbest person in the room.
That’s what makes them the smartest.

If you’re the ceiling, the team flatlines.

An obvious way to save money and the environment:
Put the spinning electric meter inside the house.
Watch the pennies disappear in real time.

Maybe you’d turn off that light in the bathroom.

YouTube has too many people making videos about how to make videos.
Where are the weirdos building something worth watching?