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The medieval monk who pioneered digital nomadism

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Centuries before trust-fund kids bought camper vans to find themselves, a 14th-century Japanese monk nailed the aesthetic. Yoshida Kenko wrote an entire manifesto on why society is inherently trash and everyone should just wander around staring at cherry blossoms, officially inventing the pretentious, minimalist digital nomad lifestyle 700 years early.

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