Since filming this, I have moved my desk into the light and am blinded for 6 hours a day by the sun. On another note, I am insanely grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to work in all of these cool places over the past year. It’s been the experience of a lifetime. Thank you for watching and thank you for your support 🙌🙌 (Also sorry about the crackly audio at the end 😩)

As an audio engineer, the sound is fine. It's intelligible and understandable. It might not be up to your usual standards, but recording in lots of different locations and at lots of different times is difficult... and seems to result in an exponential increase in sneaky gremlins. Ask me how I know... sigh. Keep up the great work!

For those who can't access the survey it works if you change the url, after human-progress just add /survey Vanessa you should probably update the link in video description.

That "beautifully designed" survey is woefully implemented. If/When they get a version that doesn't reload every page once per second, I might even be able to read one of the questions.

As an NHS GP, in a role that our govt completely disrespects, I’m looking forward to completing the survey

The only change Covid had on my life was that now I get to work from home.

Dear Nessy! or whoever you are you beautiful human being. I am a psychologist from Turkey and I find your videos quite informative and sincere at the same time. I enjoy your way of telling your stories. Please keep going. Especially love the references parts!

Nothing changed in my life. I know myself and have no problem being alone with my thoughts 😋

I lived for 400 days in a vehicle but it wasn't a voluntary experiment. It's called unsheltered homelessness and I have PTSD now.

the survey page seems broken - keeps refreshing every couple of seconds on it's own. anyone else?

I've been able to work from home for decades, but my employer did not allow it on a permanent basis. The pandemic changed all that and I have not been into work since March 4th, 2020. I hope I never have to go back to the office for normal work. I like my four walls and have no problems staying home.

Survey page doesn't work. Keeps refreshing every couple sec.

Crazy how your video is sponsored by a company from the city that I study in. I just noticed today their logo at the main train station haha

As someone who worked a weeks in and around Joshua Tree (had to drive out to 29 Palms for cell reception), I truly love this video. However, as someone who works in post sound, you’re correct about the end having issues, but also the rest hadn’t been up to the quality you’ve shown in all past videos. I have my recommendations, but it’s probably too much for someone trying to relax more.

You know, for an eight minute video, this did a really great job at getting its point across. I wouldn't think such a short video could get the point across of such a long experiment, but it worked.

The sound is a bit off on this one. Especially in the outside scenes :

I'm a loner, so the distance and facetime with people didn't change. The only change is that I wear a mask when I'm avoiding people.

The survey doesn't work for me as the page auto-refreshes every few seconds. I learned that my faith in technology is slowly decreasing.

As a disabled person with moderate to severe ME, the pandemic barely affected my daily routine at all.

Survey broken on desktop and smartphone. Quality work, Merck!

One thing I can say for certain is that you definitely seem to have become a much happier person during this time. I'm not sure if you were just putting it out there more during your journey, but your IG account seemed to show someone who was absolutely LOVING every minute of life. It has been really cool to watch.

21 months later. I leave the house 1 or 2 days a week to get food or take care of family elders only. Work days are 10-12 hours a day M-F. Some sat/Sun/holiday hours. Not motivated to do anything. I find the only things I can do are the things I can do routinely with little thought….basically work. Work is 4-6 hours of conference calls everyday then another 4-6 hours of getting work done. 21 months later my manager has yet to call and say “how are you doing. Is there anything you need or I can help with?” I’ve put on 35 COVID pounds. Last year I put in 800 extra unpaid hours. That equals 5 months or 40 hour weeks unpaid. My employer calls that “casual” overtime. Last year I also lost 1/3 of my vacation being available for storms (I work for a utility). None of which got recognized or even acknowledged.

🎶 Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond Call me what you will!!! 🎶

I found the audio on that quite distracting, as it went odd at several points. Glad you're enjoying the new lifestyle of travelling, but do wonder if the issue was with being stuck and disconnected in one of the biggest cities in the world. Maybe try small town life for a bit?

I love brain craft!!!

Very interesting but I expected more science 😅 Also, audio is a bit bad. Maybe your mic has problems? And the link you shared doesn't work properly. The page refreshes every 3 seconds making it impossible to use. I would like to see a follow up on this topic!

For me the pandemic has shown how bad actors can really ruin life for everybody else, how greed fubars a lot of people, with excuses so lame that you wonder just why. That is what really makes me sad. We as species are really in a bad spot in term of respecting one another, and the pandemic made this even clearer. I know it is life here in this rock.

Thanks for the info. I guess, people are trying to have "one less thing to worry about", and feel better when regular needs can be addressed in a formulated way. But evolution and such is that, we grew up among trees and stuff. I'm in India now, where there is a lot of urban pollution (both noise and stuff), and have plans to move to Australia. I've lived in USA, but did not like their dependence on cars. Off_grid housing, with community_battery_energy storage seems very interesting. OK, and bye.

I have done something similar. Only difference, it was on my own terms, actually in Aussie and Kiwi land ;) During my 1.5 year journey and also after, I talked to a lot of people who travel or travelled a lot themselves. I noticed that everyone has the same big road block after 5-9 months of travelling. (there are exceptions obviously) One is the lack of purpose, the other one is having (a feel) at least some kind of "home base" to fall back on. The term "home base" can be taken very loosely. In general, the grass seems to be always greener on the other side. After long months of travelling I feel like I want to go home. After staying home for months, I feel like I really need to travel again. As for the pandemic, because of the circumstances I was in, it has been actually one of the least "problems" on my plate. So in that regard it didn't effect me that much. But most of all, I noticed (compared to other people) it's ALL about state of mind and mindset. Being inside or travelling both simply still have problems and issues. They are just different problems and issues.

This is exactly what I want to do

Exciting experiment! I guess a good start would be to open my window blinds, then build up to spending 20 minutes in nature to reap those benefits.

How my work culture was affected? Instead of working 60-70 hours from home i now work 70-80 hours from home and being 100% more succesful.

Greetings from Darmstadt, Germany! Did not to hear about Merck here on KZfaq.

This is a dream of mine. I really want to be a digital nomad.

Our parents were right: “Go Outside and Play”

You call it an experiment I call it lifestyle... We're not the same.

Definitely up ended my life but not by me getting it but by me suffering a very bad reaction to one of The vaccines that lead to a major stroke that nearly resulted my death.

I would do the survey if the site wasent refusing evey 2 seconds ill try it later

hit that like before finishing the video

What happened to the dog?

there's probably a google colab for one of the myriad audio super resolution ai algorithms out there if you're ever stuck with fuzzy audio again

Website seems broken. I scroll down and it sends me back to the top. The start survey link in the middle sends me back to the beginning... Is this an experiment on how many times we'll try the same thing expecting different results? or how many different things we'll try to get it to work?

couldn't figure out how to enter the survey

The survey does not appear to be compatible with iPad

First comment 👍🇧🇪💯

Tbh, rumination may be the bane of my personal existence. x3

why is anna from gross science not uploading?

Survey not working!

Are you no longer publishing on Nebula?

So what you're saying is that I should go ahead and buy that canal barge to live on?

I worked front line crisis intervention all through the pandemic...nothing really changed much actually, except for...everything was shittier

hello Vanessa

How did COVID up-end my life? I've not seen my family in 2 years. It upsets me a lot. I'm used to seeing them all the time. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Wow I live in Darmstadt

Best of luck on the ongoing drama.. lmao

Mmmmm interesting tho yah most ppl can't do this and I wouldn't recomande it overall. Tho I do thing there could be some interesting web site that help you escape your daying world May be like different design or different environement (fictional) Looking at a cold environement for exemple. And it probably somewhat better for the echosysteme since driveing or flying to somewhere in a plan is pretty wastefull overal. Any way I think it an interesting idea to just have different image and thing to boost your creativity tho.

Nice video, i just wanted to mention that most of the time, the sound of the video is bad.

Survey page seems broken.

Oh dem, I didn't even realise how early i were

Fix your audio, please. I like the video, though.

Did you manage to get back to Australia at some point?

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Ok video... but terrible sound in some parts...

My hate for you is Beyond my imaginations. Our King dislikes you, therefore we will too! Anything the King dislikes, I dislike. So therefore I hate you very much! Let the drama begin! ;P

18th comment. Do I get the prize

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cool wine aunt. minus the wine.

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Ah yes, another rich-centered video about happiness

Um... I'm a friend of the "privileged digital nomad without self awareness who ended up moving into a Hyatt." That's a pretty bad mischaracterization of my friend. Please consider revising your video.

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