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I haven't seen it mentioned, but Boulder for me. I'm really into outdoors sports all year round, but winter sports in particular. To be able to work in a cool l

I haven't seen it mentioned, but Boulder for me. I'm really into outdoors sports all year round, but winter sports in particular. To be able to work in a cool locale that is built around that lifestyle, but also where there are a lot of good coffee spots and restaurants, and where there is a sizable tech population with many major tech companies having offices there, sounds like the best of all worlds. Having a tech population is good for me because I'm social, enjoy tech meetups, etc and don't think I could just live isolated and work from home all the time strictly. Plus a major city, Denver, is right next door.

tspike 6y ago
Even better for you then that you don't have to get a remote gig to live in Boulder.
widforss 6y ago
My current trajectory is headed for the tech side of the avalanche business, and its great. People live all over the mountains, so nobody really cares where you are, everything happens by teleconference anyway. So I basically hope to find a small house on the Cap of the North and work from there.
- tricolon 6y ago
  > the tech side of the avalanche business Can you tell me more? I've been reading more and more about avalanche safety recently.
  - widforss 6y ago
    I'm still on my master's, so I'm no expert in the subject yet. I did my bachelor's project on remote sensing of avalanches [1] and have worked with the Swedish EPA for the last year building a structured database of remotely detected avalanche activity. This summer I'll do some work on data preparation for machine learning for the Norwegian equivalent, which will hopefully turn into a master's project. I think it's a great industry, because there's lot of interesting tech that's relevant to work with (both SW and HW, mostly radio related stuff, but also infrasound and seismologic detectors), it's so small that you work internationally from the start, and the people working are ranging from mountain guides to database administrators. [1]: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74556 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74556
torgian 6y ago
I'm with you on this. Boulder is great.
chad_strategic 6y ago
Let's not advertise for Colorado. Let's just keep it our little secret. :)

tspike 6y ago

Even better for you then that you don't have to get a remote gig to live in Boulder.

widforss 6y ago

My current trajectory is headed for the tech side of the avalanche business, and its great. People live all over the mountains, so nobody really cares where you are, everything happens by teleconference anyway. So I basically hope to find a small house on the Cap of the North and work from there.

tricolon 6y ago
> the tech side of the avalanche business Can you tell me more? I've been reading more and more about avalanche safety recently.
- widforss 6y ago
  I'm still on my master's, so I'm no expert in the subject yet. I did my bachelor's project on remote sensing of avalanches [1] and have worked with the Swedish EPA for the last year building a structured database of remotely detected avalanche activity. This summer I'll do some work on data preparation for machine learning for the Norwegian equivalent, which will hopefully turn into a master's project. I think it's a great industry, because there's lot of interesting tech that's relevant to work with (both SW and HW, mostly radio related stuff, but also infrasound and seismologic detectors), it's so small that you work internationally from the start, and the people working are ranging from mountain guides to database administrators. [1]: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74556 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74556

torgian 6y ago

I'm with you on this. Boulder is great.

chad_strategic 6y ago

Let's not advertise for Colorado. Let's just keep it our little secret. :)