The Time Is Now

hello friends, a gloomy Sunday in Berlin makes ample writing time. I have some interesting news from inside of my head. But let me kick you off with something funny: How to have high thoughts without getting high? Let me explain. I used to smoke a lot of weed. Idk about you but what weed does to me is it gets my head going real fast. It produces million dollar ideas at a breathtaking speed in me n...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Vivid Void . Gabe aka. VividVoid is a well known Twitter poaster, famous among other things for his good night posts that usually read “Remember who you are. Good night. I love you. See you in the morning.”, and for a while also contained a phrase akin to “remember, you’re not inferior to anybody”, together with some very dank spiritual memes....

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with xiq [read: chic]. Xiq founded the community archive , an open database and API that’s based on people uploading their tweet archives voluntarily. Xiq is also an event host, hosting XiqWeek! in 2023 and Portal in 2024. Xiq and I met at Ananta ’s birthday in Berlin in 2022, which was a big Proto-TPOT event for me. I met xiq IRL before ever seeing...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Jelger Kroese. Jelger is a cross-disciplinary academic, teacher, researcher and musician. A true multi-hyphenate. He is part of the leadership team of the “Collective Futures” minor at the University of Amsterdam. Jelger and I met at Medley , an extended residency, which I dubbed a “kindergarten for ADHD wizards”. The meme took between my frien...

hello friends, and happy new year! I hope you’re doing well. In the last couple of years, my life has been cinematic. Magical and wondrous things happen to me regularly. The baseline quality of my life has increased dramatically. Chance encounters have led to love, friendship and adventure. I’ve been a silent enjoyer of this process. I’ve not documented much of this in a way that’s accessible to o...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with river stone aka Disk Pilgrim. I’ve met a few frisbee players in the past years, and there are some specifically strong disk tossers in the TPOT crowd, especially among the Americans (shoutouts to Brent and Mage). But I’ve never met a true frisbee philosopher, someone who is more mentally obsessed with frisbee than me, and who has thought about...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Jesse Crossen . Jesse is a philosopher and my friend. We first met at Medley in Berlin, and then through our mutual friend Maeby, and then at Jesscamp. Then we went to Microsolidarity Summercamp right after, performed a magic ritual together that cured my fear of my face (that I had been hiding behind a beard for 10 years) and that cured his fe...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Jess. Jess is the organizer of the wonderful internet-people-meetup-party “Jesscamp” and, as most of my guests are, she’s a powerful wizard : ) I wanted to talk to Jess about her history with Jesscamp and TPOT, and we find a wonderful story of growing up, various arrangements of living and loving, learning how to communicate what we want and ne...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Christine. Christine asked me some questions about my sabbatical on Twitter. I invited her to ask me anything she wants, on my podcast. She asked me great questions and gave me an opportunity to tell my story on my own show, for which I'm very grateful. Christine is a big part of the community and has been building apps for it, like 3rd space,...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Rich. Rich is the founder of Microsolidarity , a community-building practice. I've been pondering getting my best friends together to form a gang, and I have many questions about it, so I thought it would be good to hear Richard's thoughts. We also went on a foray into disagreeing, anger, and finding ways back to each other, which is my favorit...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Nibras. Nibras and I got to know each other in a residency in Berlin. Nibras is an excellent interviewer and a conversation artist, and passing the mic is a bit of a sport for us. We also share an inevitable draw towards content creation, so it’s good to talk on tape together. The topic we end up converging on is “the lowering of the armor” and...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Tasshin Fogleman. In this conversation we get to know each other — we’ve never spoken before in person. We talk about our lives’ work, Twitter and TPOT, our journeys through the internet, and of course I find out lots of other things about how Tasshin thinks and sees the world. Tasshin also shares an intensely difficult personal story of grief...

Hello friends, please enjoy this podcast episode with Anansi aka. s0uldirect0r aka. Matthew. We talk about our lives, God, faith, agency and magic. If that sounds a bit far out there, I can assure you that we are doing our best to get it across in very pragmatic real-world stories and examples. Anansi is living a very cool and courageous life and I suggest you keep up with his art and adventures o...