The Off-Grid Studio

Notes from a last week in the Portuguese mountains

Dear friends,
This is the last week in Foz da Cova, our small village in the Portuguese mountains.

What we achieved:

• We (Paula Kühn and me) updated our THE ROBOTS website with a new design and case studies

• We learned to make fire in an oven (It’s not as easy as it sounds)

• We set up Attio CRM to manage our contacts (yeah!)

• We sweated in the sauna and jumped into the cold river

• Pancakes

• Time and peace to work on creative projects

• Carrying 4 cubic meters of wood through the whole village

• Watched great movies (Chunking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love, Orfeu Negro, Central do Brasil)

What was challenging

• Open the door of the washing machine

• Switch on the coffee machine

• Defrosting the ice-box accidentally

Biggest takeaway

• It really is not necessary to be in a crowded city to get creative or digital work done. Actually the opposite.

• Even if you are a so called “creative-technologist”, washing- and coffee machines stay extremely complex systems

Much love,
Marius