
I’ve had that feeling of wanting to just disappear. Obviously I didn’t want this to happen in a less than pleasant manner (i.e. being abducted by aliens or being kidnapped for human trafficking) but of something caused by my own accord. Disappearing does take some mojo to pull off and I’m attached to my connections more than I would care to admit. But I’ve done some of the more reasonable and fairly safe ways of doing so.
Evan Ratliff, now there’s a man who’s gutsy enough to go off-grid for a month. Ratfliff who writes for Wired decided to take up the challenge of vanishing for a month while offering a finder’s prize of $5,000 to whoever could locate and identify him. This online mystery saga/reality show came about with the question: How hard is it to vanish in the digital age?
If there is one story you must read this week, this has got to be it.