Piotrek Bodera

Helping digital nomads build lasting relationships through slow travel.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Great news @levelsio! Revolut finally offers Portuguese IBAN and MB Way.

No more relying on sketchy apps from ActivoBank and other local banks.

Revolut won a long battle with lobbyists, and many NHR residents like myself can at last utilize the best nomad-friendly bank app.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Nobody tells you this about digital nomadism: it's not one breakthrough that made it possible. It's six. Cheap flights. Small devices. Mobile internet. Borderless payments. Digital visas. Remote work. None alone matters. Together they established freedom.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Email in 1997: folders within folders, drag messages manually, 5 MB attachment cap, slow desktop client.

Email in 2026 with Hey: one column, automatic triage, no attachment limit, mobile at full feature parity. It took 30 years to rethink it.

What email app do you use and why?

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Unpopular take in Kuala Lumpur: Grab and Foodpanda are bad for vegans. The apps don't verify inventory, dishes lack ingredient details, and real vegan options are thin. Order directly from real vegan restaurants instead. Pinxin's frozen Penang dishes beat any KL delivery app.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Two years living in Kuala Lumpur taught me one thing: this city has plenty of hidden vegan gems. Five spots changed how I eat in Malaysia. Saving them here so you don't have to scroll HappyCow.

[Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo]

In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization:

1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically.

2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts.

3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer.

4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things.

5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode (+2.4%) and ChatGPT (+2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero.

6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products.

7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating.

8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time.

9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap).

10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

"you should focus on one startup"

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Every email client is stuck in the 1990s. Multi-column folders, manual rules, attachments capped at 25 MB.

Hey is the only modern email client I've used. One column, automatic triage, no size limits. (not affiliated/sponsored just happy customer)

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Every email client is stuck in the 1990s. Multi-column folders, manual rules, attachments capped at 25 MB.

Hey is the only modern email client I've used. One column, automatic triage, no size limits. (not affiliated/sponsored just happy customer)

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

One year on Hey. Migrated from iCloud Mail in May 2025, mid-travel through Japan. Now every other email client feels broken to me. The core insight: your inbox is a to-do list anyone can populate. Hey is the only client built around that fact.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Most people don't really want total freedom in their lives and businesses.

They want someone or something to blame when things go wrong.

100% freedom means accepting that everything is your fault, both good and bad, true or untrue.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Kuala Lumpur 2019: vegan dining meant one Sala location in Desa Sri Hartamas.

Kuala Lumpur 2026: Kusa, Hungry Tapir, Minf Houze, Tiny Food Cafe, plus Pinxin frozen delivery.

What are your vegan experiences in KL?

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: digital nomadism isn't escapism. It's a return to the default. Humans were seasonal nomads for most of our history. Cities are a recent invention. Staying in one place your entire life is the historical anomaly. Not the other way around.

Do you agree?

[Marc Lou @marclou]

10 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway:

Don't you dare give up.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Moving countries in 1995: travel agent for flights, a desktop PC in your luggage, wallet thick with cash, months queuing at embassies, fax machines for paperwork.

Moving in 2026: AirAsia, laptop, Wise, e-visa, land tomorrow.

Same act. Different planet.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

In his last video @Casey said he stopped using social media.

Last year, it took him 12 months to make 6 videos.

This year, it took him 6 months to make 12.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

I conversed for an hour with Ana Baute, who runs Bencomo Coliving in north Tenerife with her brother. She's a local guide, photographer, and now a community builder. Her mission is to address the epidemic of nomad loneliness.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

38% of digital nomads don't eat meat. That changes how we travel. We don't pick destinations for the beaches anymore. We pick them for whether HappyCow has more than three pins on the map. Kuala Lumpur passes that filter spectacularly.

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Hungry Tapir in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown has a special place in my heart. It's where I had my first date with my partner. Their vegan Nasi Lemak with mushroom and tempeh keeps me coming back.

What's your favorite vegan place in Malaysia's capital?

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Tenerife 2006: package holidays, all-inclusive resorts, 7-day stay, tourists who never leave the bar.

Tenerife 2026: affordable flights, community colivings, 90-day stays, digital nomads who explore culture and nature.

What's your Tenerife experience?

[Piotrek Bodera @nerdontour]

Most people stay where they're born. I didn't. After Poland came Italy, Japan, Australia, Spain, and now Malaysia. Here's what actually made swapping home bases possible — and it's not what most nomad influencers tell you.