In this solo video for his Book Thinkers audience, Nick Hutchinson answers viewer questions about how he manages to work full‑time for a remote software sales company, maintain rigorous daily reading and productivity routines, and travel extensively in Peru. He explains that his remote sales role requires only a laptop, phone, and reliable internet, allowing him to work from anywhere without needing formal time‑off, which enables month‑long trips. He emphasizes the importance of deliberately designed habits—reading, exercise, and other routines—supported by an accountability group that meets weekly, tracks activity, and uses a simple scoreboard to ensure momentum isn’t lost. Hutchinson cites the compounding effect of 1% improvements over decades and warns that breaking routines can erode progress. He credits books like Tim Ferriss’s The 4‑Hour Workweek and Rolf Potts’s Vagabonding for shaping his lifestyle, and encourages viewers to seek remote work, adopt disciplined habits, and use similar resources. The video concludes with a call to keep routines while traveling, promising long‑term dividends.
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Hello, Book Thinkers family. Today's video is going to address a couple questions that I received over the last few weeks. If you weren't following along, I just spent the last couple weeks in Peru. It was amazing. I spent time in Lima and Cusco. I did Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, all the Incan stuff. So I had such a fantastic time, but I still posted and I still showed myself working and reading. And because of that, a lot of questions popped up. So some of the most popular questions were, are you working full-time for another company? Outside of Book Thinkers? Are you still maintaining all of your normal habits and routines and things like that? And then really, why? Why are you still working while you travel? So I wanted to address some of those questions in this video. I do work full-time for a company outside of Book Thinkers. It's a software company and I have a sales position. What's great is that it's a remote sales position, so all I need is a laptop and a phone, and as long as I have great Wi-Fi and a cell phone connection, I can do my job the exact same way As if I was doing it from home. And because of the ability to work remote, I don't need to take as much time off. I still do take some time off, but I don't need to submit for time off because I'm doing my job exactly the same way that I do it when I'm at home. And that allows me to do longer-term travel. It allows me to go somewhere for weeks or a month instead of just a couple days or a weekend. And that's transformed my life. And because of that, yes, of course I still work while I'm traveling. Of course I still read while I'm traveling. I travel because I'm working and because I'm reading and because of the position that I have. And I'm so incredibly grateful and blessed to have that opportunity, but I designed that intentionally with books like The 4-Hour Workweek in mind and using the strategies that somebody like Tim Ferriss has successfully used in his life and applied them to mine. And then boom, all of a sudden you have the ability to do all of these amazing things. So yes, I still work for another company, and yes, I still maintain all of my normal daily routines like reading and things like that. Because of those things, I've been successful, and because of those things, I have the ability to travel and to have fun and to post cool stuff, explore all of these amazing parts of the world while still maintaining my full rigorous— it's not light— rigorous routines and schedules and things like that. And I'm part of an accountability group. My accountability group meets every single week, and we set goals for the future week. We review our activity from the prior week, and we all maintain an We have an online activity tracker between meetings where we set goals and we check off the box if we accomplish certain parts of our routines and things like that. We have an activity completion percentage that is a very easy scoreboard. It shows us if we're winning or losing, or if we won the previous week or lost the previous week. And then the group kind of dives into certain activities that you may have missed, that you may have hit. So the point in telling you this is that when I travel, I have other people that are holding me accountable to hitting these goals and making sure that I don't miss steps on my routine. A 1% change in your life compounded over the next 20 years is going to lead you to a massively different outcome, a massively different place. And I don't want to let that compounding stop because momentum works in both ways. And if you lose the momentum on a routine, if you've hit it for 10 weeks in a row and all of a sudden you go to Peru for a couple weeks and you don't hit it well, you've lost that momentum. And I want to make sure that that doesn't happen. So I still maintain my routines. The people in my group They make sure that I'm preparing myself to hit certain things, and they make sure that I don't fail. So I hope this video helped to answer a couple different questions that people have asked me. I'll be able to forward this to people in the future. And yeah, if you are interested in a remote job, I would highly encourage you read The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. If you're interested in the art of long-term world travel and how to do it so that it's not so expensive, I would recommend Vagabonding. By Rolf Potts, and I'd also recommend that you just check out Book Thinkers because I have hundreds of other books that have made this possible for me. Outside of that, keep up your routines when you travel. It's so hard to do, but it will pay massive dividends over time. And with that, adios! Have a great day. Go read something, and I hope this video helped. Bye.
