Advanced Retroadaptics

Jack and I talk about how he moved to Alaska when he was 21, nine years ago, inspired by the diaries of Dick Proenneke and the strategic life-affirming philosophies of Your Money or Your Life and ERE. He built his own cabin, learned to hunt and dress game, grows his own food, got his pilots license, does adventure races in the Alaskan wilderness, and is growing his family. We talk about how he fun...

I sat down for a conversation with Ludwig, the founder of the permaculture community Rubha Phoil on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, where I spent two months. We talk about how to build a connecting culture, nature connection, and what listening to the birds has to do with... everything.

I talk about how skill acquisition and anti-consumerism can lead to increasing levels of personal freedom in your life. But what if you don't stop once you've got your freedom? What if you just... kept developing skills? What if you use an ability to drop into stoke-fueled flow to spin up a positive feedback loop, spiraling your personal system into an advanced stage of hypercompetence? What could...

I lived and worked with Arti for five weeks on an off-grid fablab in the south of Portugal. We talk about who the Belarusian people are, his time in the army, his cat and mouse game with the KGB, and the possible role ADHD plays in people rejecting dysfunctional systems of power and building things that suck less. Arti shooting his 36 year old bazooka: https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6L1HeDncF/?igsh...

How I applied the principles and strategies of episodes 1-4 to my own life, and transformed what was an idea for a webcomic into an exercise in authoring my own life. By pursuing frugality, skills, autonomy, and nonconsumer praxis, I was able to gracefully navigate a layoff and embark on a multiyear (?) hyper-lowcost round the world trip based on helping out and building skills on various ecoproje...

Stories help us make sense of our place in the world, and can help us think about our purpose, our mission. I think industrial civilization is a large ship on the ocean that has just struck an iceberg. Most people are scrambling about, trying to figure out how to save the ship. I no longer think the ship can be saved. I am trying to find and help the other passengers who are also diligently attemp...

Skills can buy you freedom which can buy you time to develop more skills. Beautiful. I talk about the Three Phases of Skill Development, and how all this internal work *is* part of the work of creating a transition society, and it's probably not for the reasons you think. Show notes at tylerjdisney.com/podcast

You can't do much if you can't do much. Securing your own personal freedom of action is the first step to becoming an effective agent in the world. Unlearning the insidious lies of consumer mindset is prerequisite.

It's shaping up to be a wild century, and I don't want to miss a thing. I also want to be able to help out where I can. Autonomy is critical. In this episode I introduce some thoughts on how to claw sovereignty back from industrial consumer society. **Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com