Advanced Retroadaptics

An update on what I've been up to the past year or so and what fresh Lovecraftian horror I'm going beard-to-tentacle to with at the moment.

This is the full audio of chapter 1 of my book Deep Response .  The purpose of Deep Response is to unpack post-consumer praxis for people who are explicitly wrestling with the question of what to do about the metacrisis in their own lives, like I was. I spent years banging my head against a wall, trying to figure out how to align my actions with my understanding of the multivariate crises facing h...

In this AMA I answer questions about what I miss from being an ongrid worker/consumer, getting over the ego satisfaction of a white collar career, and getting over the dark lust for money and status.

I answer your questions about money. Do I invest? Am I coastFI? How am I handling old age and health care? Does a low cost of living mean you can't eat healthy food? etc.  My New FU Rules episode. I solicited these questions on my newsletter. Sign up for my newsletter from any page on my website tylerjdisney.com

In 2023 my friend Jack McClure, his wife Alana, and their baby Din walked most of the way from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Crest Trail. They ended at my place and spent a month here. Jack wrote a book about their experience. Find details of where to snag it here . In this conversation we talk about the book writing process, their experience on trail, and what they’ve got in mind next.

Bryan comes back on the podcast to talk about how pathological culture lets us down by failing to meet whole dimensions of human needs and then gaslighting us about it. This conversation actually triggered insights that made me make changes in my own life and see things from a fresh perspective, so I highly recommend checking it out. Find his series of posts on the forum here .

Want intellectual and creative freedom without all the administrative hassle, politics, and drama that goes along with traditional tenure responsibilities? Give this one a listen. Cody Markelz came back on to discuss his “DIY Tenure” idea. SHOW NOTES My first conversation with Cody where we go into his story in much greater depth. Tenure DIY Tenure The Art Gallery Cody is cofounding, Darmera . Cod...

I 'finished' my cooking skill month early. In this episode I reflect on how the process went and what I learned.

I explain how I 'drew a map' of my cooking ultralearning project for Skillathon 2024. https://tylerjdisney.com/blog/skillathon2024

Almost all of the work I've put into designing Skillathon 2024 comes straight from either Scott Young's book, his blog posts, or his online course Rapid Learner. In this video I go over the main concepts I'm using from Scott's work to design my Skillathon year. https://www.scotthyoung.com/ https://tylerjdisney.com/blog/skillat...

I'm going to learn one new skill each month in 2024. Blog Post Forum Thread Podcast ep21 with Cody Cody's science and art sites: https://www.codymarkelz.art/ https://www.codymarkelz.com/

Our culture suffers from an impoverished imagination of possible futures. People assume that if you don't believe in Star Trek then you are a doomer. This is dumb. Allow me to clarify.

Bryan aka Jin+Guice runs his life so he can live aligned with his values and desires: pursuing curiosity, cooking, playing music, dumpster diving, and founding a record label that makes records for free to the artist with possibility of making money on the back end. He talks with me about freedom, semiERE, how to do what you want, optimizing for fucking around, and a theoretical cost of living of...

Cody Markelz aka mountainFrugal visited me here in Ft. Dirtbag for a few days. We explored the desert, cooked, talked, and recorded this podcast episode. I feel like I've just had a crazy intense masterclass in the art of living. The calm wisdom and stoke Cody embodies is inspirational. How to live like you're going to die, how to do only what you want to do, intuitive organization and planning, r...

Continuing the theme of Skills for Freedom! I dig into high leverage skills and how to run the numbers in order to forget the numbers.

In this episode I take a closer look at the concept of comparative advantage and how we can use it to think productively about polymathic skill acquisition.

A deep dive into several frameworks for approaching skill acquisition. Where to start? What skills to pursue first? How to even think about becoming a modern polymath?

Our internet has been broken for over a month, which gave me the idea to pretend like our internet will be broken... forever. Also updates on projects TTM5K, Dry 2023, Shipshape, PCT hike, and Write a Book.

When Matt emailed me out of the blue to tell me he thought I was pessimistic and that he disagreed with several of the things I’ve said on the podcast, I knew we had to talk. We discuss: pessimism xrisk, including AI, his interest, risk at the scale of the personal life, and why Matt chose to introduce risk into his life, the lifeboat flotilla, dissensus , and more. By the way, we mention but don’...

Chris tells me how he escaped a soul-sucking engineering career, hiked the ACT and then the PCT, turned his side hustle into his main gig, and is now able to face the big questions in life like what is life for? and What's the best way to live the rest of our lives? I think Chris' story has lots of great lessons for us as we build our own stories and I'm grateful to him for sharing with us. Chris...

Monthly Update! I'm a new member of the Four Figure Club, am cranking on PV projects, quit booze, and have some thoughts on the balance between fear and love, optimism and pessimism.

I talk with Meghan and Toby, my friends who live in a converted school bus with their young son. We discuss the bus build, skills, using salvaged materials, getting over middle class baggage, running a desirable family lifestyle off of one part-time job, and community integration projects. This is part one of my conversation - stay tuned for part 2. Find pictures of their build at www.tylerjdisney...

I talk with Meghan and Toby, my friends who live in a converted school bus with their young son. We discuss the bus build, skills, using salvaged materials, getting over middle class baggage, running a desirable family lifestyle off of one part-time job, and community integration projects. This is part one of my conversation - stay tuned for part 2. Find pictures of their build at www.tylerjdisney...

I've had this relentless curiosity driving me towards unconventional living experiments, and I've had a concern for 'The Predicament'. And I've been stuck regarding both of those things for a long time. I'm not stuck anymore. The convergence of those two interests and becoming unstuck is what I want to talk about. >"Only when the last fish is caught..." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alanis_Obom...

I talk about why I'm going to stop thinking about frugality now, some interesting projects I'm planning on, and my new rules for my FU stash. https://tylerjdisney.com/blog/2023/1/11/january-monthly-post The Nate Hagens podcast episode with Vicki Robin: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/21-vicki-robin Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com