**The Optimal Life: Structuring a Life of Multiple Places**

As I reflect on our situation, it's clear that we're still figuring out the best way to structure our lives for maximum happiness or whatever we want to optimize for. With the freedom to live wherever we want, how do we set up a life that consists of multiple different places? We've got tax issues to consider, residency to sort out, and finding friends and love in new locations is crucial. But there are so many factors at play, and it's not always easy.

Currently, our plan is to spend the next couple of months working on our own projects before linking up with our community again. We're likely going to move back to New Zealand for 6 months, which will be a great opportunity to have a base there. After that, we'll head out and do some traveling around.

Personally, I'm getting tired of living in Dubai and want to spend more time with my family. My boys don't want to stay here either, so if it comes down to it, I'd need to make some sacrifices for them. Our business plan is still evolving, but we're trying to get it where we want it before making any major changes.

As someone who values socialability and being in a green environment, I'm not sure how to balance these desires with the needs of our business. For now, I'll have to put my personal preferences on hold and focus on what's best for our venture.

**Building a Community**

I've been reflecting on our community and how it's growing. We've got an amazing group of people who are passionate about what we do, and I'm incredibly honored and grateful to be a part of it. As someone who attracts such awesome people to this opportunity, I want to continue doing what my team and I can do best to grow that.

**The Reality of Living with AI**

If you'd like to see more videos like this one, where I share the realities of living with AI and building a community around it, let me know in the comments. I'm open to sharing more about what we're doing and how we make it work.

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Dubai um flight got delayed not IDE deal um but uh we're here now it is uh 400 p.m. uh Amsterdam Central European Time so I'm going to trundle over to the hotel now get ready and I think I need to be at the event we're going on a canal boat at 600 p.m. so I need to get the stuff moving quickly uh but yeah that's where I'm at damn okay been out way inut minute oh oh I think the uh last time I was here was a year and a half ago maybe even more we've come here quite a lot with my uh my team my business partner he loves being here um and actually one of our team from morning side a guy from New Zealand who now works for us he lives in in Amsterdam he's recently moved here and my assistant Nina lives here as well so this is very much a a hub for us in the outside of Dubai I met Nina my assistant when I was 21 traveling around with one of my other teammates Casey uh we're traving around and met her in Italy in sento and thef coast and we're drinking all those booze with her and new friends um and then all these years later I end up hiring her as my assistant so uh having seen her since then in person so it'll be interesting to catch up with her she's been uh absolutely key in in getting this whole thing organized cuz she lives here obviously so no pressure for her and a good chunk of the New Zealand guys that I've I've hired to come on and work at morning side with me um and with then the accelerator going to be there so uh it's going to be nice to see my friends and my brothers again really that's what they are um yeah happy to be out look at it Greenery Greenery bit of nature bit of uh European culture can't go wrong they just do things well over here you know I'm seriously running out of time at it's nearly 5:00 I have to leave the hotel at 6 of course I'm late and it's not even my fault this time but um yeah if you guys are if you guys don't know me person I'm always late to everything but this time it was a plane spot not mine um so I'm blaming emirats but yeah you're too you're to all right this be I thought some hog assv going on here all right so about to go see the boys and the girls I think think they're he in the bar this is exciting cuz we have uh the morning side team meeting some of our guys for the first time so Mato is here our product owner for agentive and for some of our client builds so see you where they yeah likewise s I'm getting the whole Vlog FR was yeah smart but I'm the host you know you should have known I wasn't going to manager owner at James developer I've got it's good to be back in yeah it's good to see you again hello it a true buzy this has come a long way since June man away this is uh I'm I'm doing this as part of a vlog for the channel so tell here come all the way from Canada how was the flight it was long but it was 100% worth than that I'm here did you get any delays I was delayed 3 hours mate no really that wasn't good was good were you in uh you in MA by off was as hell cuz I mean we're big guys and like literally a problem prob fought with one dude almost f one dude yeah I mean if there you and Mark squeezed into a ky seat next to some other D but we made it through we made it through we're here and uh this is actually I was talking to to Li actually the other about how much how much this has changed since we joined remember last year back in June how look at these people are here you did s in until I saw how many people I just like out this by the way guys come here boom I get F each time that you're near oh this F go it's you that I fear darling you make me high and I adore of course of course of course my my colle okay byebye hell all right that's uh about first half of the evening done was success it's kind of cold now but um off to a bar and uh call it a night yeah successful good to meet a lot of people in person say hi to them and uh get to know more about the businesses and what they're doing what's up guys we here in dorf uh my friends and uh business partners are all living here for the next couple of months and I wanted to come down here and do a little bit of strategy with them um and I was going to go stay in my usual spot in D which is the high which is really nice of tell uh love staying there but I realized that uh my friend Casey here has his own little apartment um and so I thought I'm going to come in and uh stay with him for a bit so here's Josh it's Casey I'll take you on a little house tour casy keeping the place nice and clean oh it is quite nice out here to be fair on a big day it's a little bit of a mess bro yeah does the job so it's been good here last couple days uh really working on strategy for Education morning side side and an agentive So today we're doing a little more on the war side side of things and Cas just up the camera and we have just constant figma boards fig boards if you're not using them you need to use them more cuz uh mapping things out when you don't have a whiteboard is really key uh and we're going to do a bit of work now on uh on the strategy side um School post Thursday Sunday uh one of those needs to be obviously on that meet up salt 997 onm so those four things for you pretty much for Sunday all good uh I need to prepare we've got that big proposal that one you're on that sales called the other day for morning side uh so preparing that 997 Swit and getting all that sort of on the site Ollie at sales calls for that morning sat our marketing plan I think uh we can start to put out some content there especially just to solidify that a little bit so getting that taken care of get a exact list of Education task before relaunch I think that's another one like really dep and yeah I think with the two videos uh the newsletter should just be byproducts of the videos I don't need to like reate the wheel every time I can just if I have something I've constructed into a framework that I sh the video I can just expand on that the new different Ang hey long road you can tumble down this black hole stuck in Sunday Le but I'm on levels with now though a legend in the making as a kid I dreamed on alone we feel cracks of broken homes with broken dreams and broken bones so yeah that's the end of the time with the boys uh as you can see you might have had it in the end I'm not sure but there's a lot of talk we have about the inefficiency of being not together and there's the times that myself my my friends I mean I'm so lucky to have five or six guys from New Zealand that all all work for me now and and work with me to uh be when we're living together we get so much more done we make so much more money the impact on our successes is far greater um and right now I'm in Dubai Josh is here with his girlfriend in dorf uh Casey's now living here not living with them but living in the same city and then my creative director Shan is in barley and then my friend Daniel is in Romania and one of our other developers is is is in Amsterdam uh half our team's in Canada uh not entirely sure if we we being optimal here um but there's things that if you get into this life and you do end up being able to travel and literally live wherever you want which is a pretty cool thing to have you realize it's kind of it's kind of catch to it which is now that you can live wherever you want how do you structure it in a way that optimizes for the most happiness or not even not happiness but whatever you want to optimize for how do you set up a life that consist of probably multiple different places once the tax issues there what's the residency how are you going to find friends there do you need friends what about your love life uh how much Focus can you get there is it very distracting there's so many factors that go into it and we're still trying to kind of figure out what we do as a group to find that optimal balance for us in our own lives you can do it so many different ways of course but uh yeah I think we have another couple months of really grinding out in our own little kingdoms before we before we link up and uh move back to New Zealand for 6 months it's likely going to be the plan um our plan changes every couple of weeks so take that with a greatest s but going back to New Zealand and having some kind of Base there for 6 months um before we head out and do sort of traveling around that so I would like that I think I'm sick of jumping around not even jumping around but I'm sick of living in a place like Dubai to some degree um as much as I I love Focus but uh I want to be with my boys and my boys don't really want to be in Dubai so if it's I got to I got to give up and if they got a bit of plan which is going to New Zealand I'm I'm all for it so I think my uh my days are numbered in in Dubai over the long term um but for the time being until we can get the business where we want to be um I do need to sacrifice my urges to move somewhere more socialable or or green or whatever I don't know still figuring it out as you can tell yeah I don't want to drag this on too long it's been my first video like this so I hope you guys have enjoyed I hope you see a little bit more about what makes me take the stuff that I get excited for the cool stuff that's happening in the space uh whether you're on board or not whether you're a hater whether you love my stuff you love what we're doing you can see very tangibly by the stuff that was happening over this weekend is that people are on this opportunity and we do have amazing Community that's only growing so I'm uh incredibly honored and and grateful for my role in all this and being able to be someone who attracts such awesome people to to an opportunity uh and I'm going to continue to keep doing what my team and and myself can do best to continue to grow that so if you like this style and you want to see more like this um let me know down below I know it's very different um but this is likely something I'll be doing a bit more often uh cuz I've got a pretty cool thing going on and I'm very I'd love to share more of it and I think a lot of you would benefit from seeing what it's what I do and uh and and what it takes What It Takes I mean I suppose it would be you may not even be surprised but what it what the reality of of doing this thing full-time and and living and breathing as AI versus thing looks like so let me know down below and uh yeah thanks for watching we see you in the next we had Italy on the water me and Street recording SM weed SM dop Dr a little L I actually did good I ain't drink but a paint this whole tour yeah on tour I miss my son birthday it's on July the 15th I lowkey like really see people R past on boats right now doing though just just how sweet saying that Ma you well going to get some sleep got interview with zap's h at AI today so I need to have a couple hour sleep so that I'm not super tired on that as you can tell I'm kind of a bit blasted but uh yeah going to rest up and then get back to it that's been the Vlog um let me know if you liked it you won't hold this but I got to go to bed bye