Hi, I’m the person behind SlowNomad.
I’m 33, Chinese, and I’ve spent the last five years working at a concrete batching plant in Uganda.
It’s engineering-adjacent work, with about six days off a year — three at Christmas and three at Easter.
My commute takes roughly five seconds. My office is right next to my bedroom.
Most days start at 6 a.m.: some squats, a walk, no breakfast. There’s a briefing at 7:30, work until noon, lunch at the site canteen, then back to work until 6. After that, I usually take another walk before sitting down at my computer to study.
Not exactly the background you’d expect from someone learning SEO and GEO from scratch.
How this started
Something changed on an ordinary night in August 2026.
It was a full-moon night, and I was standing outside talking to the night-shift guard.
At some point I said, half-joking:
“I might be in Africa for the rest of my life.”
The moment I said it out loud, it didn’t feel like a joke anymore.
I went back to my room and did what I usually do when I can’t sleep — started scrolling through travel videos.
Eventually, I came across a creator called “Chestnut.” That led me to the idea of digital nomads.
And then I fell down the rabbit hole.
For the next three days, I researched almost nothing else.
What does it actually take to become a digital nomad?
How long does it take?
What skills can be done remotely?
And, more importantly:
Could someone with no technical background and average English realistically pull this off?
That’s eventually how I found SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization).
They looked like skills I could actually start learning with what I already had:
A laptop.
An internet connection.
Time.
And a willingness to keep going even when I had no idea what I was doing.
So I decided to give myself two years.
The plan: don’t quit, build first
I’m not quitting my job.
At least not yet.
Right now, this job gives me something incredibly useful: income, stability, and time to learn.
There isn’t much to do around here after work, which means I can usually put four or more hours into learning SEO, GEO, WordPress, English content, and digital marketing.
So that’s the plan.
Keep working during the day.
Build this at night.
I don’t want to pretend I’m already an SEO expert or sell advice I haven’t tested myself.
SlowNomad is the experiment.
This website is where I’ll try things for real, watch what happens, document what works, admit what doesn’t, and hopefully get a little better each month.
If it works, the destination might eventually be somewhere like Chiang Mai or Bali — actually earning a location-independent income instead of just watching other people do it on YouTube.
If it doesn’t?
Well, that’s part of the experiment too.
What you’ll find here
On SlowNomad, I’ll be sharing:
- Real SEO and GEO experiments using this exact website — what I try, what moves the needle, and what doesn’t.
- My learning process, including mistakes, dead ends, and things that don’t go as planned.
- Research into building a location-independent career, from the perspective of someone starting without the usual advantages.
- Life and work in Africa, the ordinary and unfiltered version rather than the highlight reel.
Some of the more personal, day-to-day stories here are written in Chinese first. That’s still the language in which I process those experiences most naturally.
For the practical side — SEO, GEO, WordPress, experiments, and what I’m learning — I’ll increasingly write in English.
I’m not sure where all of this will lead yet.
That’s kind of the point.
Let’s see how far I actually get.
