Campfire: A City Building Podcast

 As it enters a new season soon, Cabin City Council Members Jon Hillis and Phil Levin join for an episode to talk about Cabin’s vision of building a Network City.  Jon and Phil discuss the evolution of Cabin in its short history, the new coliving Pass, Cabin’s core values, and Import Replacement Theory.    Topics Covered:  Board Game Preferences of Future of Cities Enthusiasts — (1:40) Cabin’s Cha...

Próspera is a budding platform city on the Honduran Island of Roatán operating under the Zone for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE) framework. The city aims to provide a place where entrepreneurs and businesses can work freely and efficiently. In this episode, Jackson sits down with co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Próspera, Gabriel Delgado, about the project. They talk about t...

What if the housing of the future wasn’t built on site but instead built in a factory and then shipped and set up within minutes of arriving? That’s what Jeff Wilson of Jupe and Natalie Rens of Astreia are working on. On this exciting dual-guest episode of Campfire, Jeff and Natalie chat with Jackson about the speed of prefab, how homes can be more tech-enabled, the favorable regulatory environmen...

Software engineer Zach Caceres writes the newsletter Startup Cities where he talks about startup cities: physical neighborhoods built by corporations. On this episode of Campfire, Zach and Jackson chat about the difference between startup and charter cities, the problem with grandiose city planning, the struggles with zoning rules, the social side of future cities, product vs. platform cities, and...

Nestled in the California Desert, Mars College can be thought of as a pop up city. It rises from the sand, disassembles, and then comes back. This week, Jackson sat down with Gene and Freeman from Mars College. They chat first about the mission behind and the logistics of constructing a city from scratch each cohort before diving into daily life. When you’re so remote, communal living is a big par...

Topics Covered:  Introduction to Phil — (1:20) Why Humans Should Build New Cities — (3:05) The Relationship Between Transportation and Cities — (4:47) The Impact of Designing Cities Around Cars — (7:30) The Desire for Walkable Neighborhoods — (8:55) Introduction to Culdesac — (10:00) Challenges for Culdesac — (12:00) Minimum Viable Community Size — (14:17) Demand for Culdesac — (14:49) Deciding on...

This week, to mark the end of Campfire’s Season 1, we have a very special episode for you. We’ve invited eight rockstar Cabin contributors on to hear about what brought them here, their work at Cabin, and the future of the DAO. Tune in to this episode to hear about Cabin’s origins, the unique considerations of working in Web3, Cabin’s programming, and the future of governance at Cabin. As a note,...

On this week’s Campfire, we sat down with Richie Bonilla from Clarity: a DAO tool that describes itself as the “Contributor Community Hub.” With Clarity, DAOs can onboard new contributors, match contributors with opportunities, log that work, and get people compensated.  Tune in to hear Jackson and Richie talk about Clarity, how Cabin is using the platform, the short + long term vision for Clarity...

On this week’s episode of Campfire, Jackson talks with Laurence Ion and Theo Beutel from VitaDAO, a DAO democratically funding longevity research. So far, they have deployed over 2 million dollars over 10+ projects with the help of their community.  Gather around to hear about the current state of science research, VitaDAO’s value proposition, their working groups, and governance structure.   Topi...

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Alona Shevchenko, co-founder and operational lead of UkraineDAO. They discuss how UkraineDAO has raised over $8 million US dollars to help defend Ukraine from the Russian invasion, counter Russian propaganda, and amplify Ukrainian voices. The episode details how wartime DAOs are different from traditional charities and nonprofits, the founding of Uk...

On this week’s episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Greydient and Mark Redito from Songcamp, a community focused on helping artists further their music careers by leveraging web3 technology. Tune into this exciting episode about how web3 is allowing artists to bypass legacy systems, build connections with their audiences, and forge community among fellow artists.  Topics Covered: Songcamp’s Fi...

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Dakotah and Marcus from Cohere, a member-owned network of co-living communities around the world. They use cutting-edge web3 technologies to create a network of changemakers to address the most pressing issues today. Gather ‘round the crackling fire with us to hear more about how the digital world is merging with the physical. How can we create succ...

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Rockwell and Nick from Invisible College, a community looking to provide people the skills necessary to effectively navigate and take advantage of the web3 world.  Grab your favorite warm beverage because here we’ll be talking about how access to content is not the issue plaguing education today, how NFTs are allowing people to define themselves out...

In episode 5 of Campfire, Jackson Steger interviews Juliet and Loni from Surge, a crypto-native talent pool of badass women building web3. While the web3 space keeps growing exponentially, one of the biggest challenges up to date is the inclusion of women. The founders of Surge discuss their NFT project that will help diversify the space and bring in more women and non-binary creators and leaders...

Julia and Jackson discuss the legal ambiguity surrounding tokens, the obstacles facing DAOs today, inflationary governance tokens, and instilling a sense of ownership within a community. Shadman Uddin from Cabin then joins the pod to talk about challenges around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in web3, and what we can do to solve them. Topics Covered:  What is Awesome People Ventures? — (02...

Topics Covered: What Seed Club is (Jess) (2:45) Jess and Nicole’s Roles in Seed Club (4:55) Leadership without traditional managerial structures (7:00) Seed Club accelerator programming (9:30) Tokenomics and token system building (12:50) Why we need more DAOs (19:15) Network effects come first then the product (23:10) Seedclub’s token exchange model (24:17) Priming in regards to the selection proc...

Get your jerseys and huddle with Flex and Commodore while they talk about the possibility of owning and the associated challenges of buying and operating an NBA team as a collective of investors using new technologies. Topics Covered: Why fans should have ownership stakes in a teams — (02:20) How Krause House works — (05:30) The scope of Krause House’s mission — (10:00) Exploration in buying an in...

In the first episode of Campfire we hosted Zakk and Jon, the founders of our very own Cabin DAO. Listen along as Zakk and Jon discuss everything from the origins and mission of Cabin, to the intricacies of nodes, network states, and emergent strategy in DAO ecosystems.  Topics Covered: What is Cabin? —  (02:35) Nodes as neighborhoods — (03:33) Brief history of decentralized cities and states — (04...

Campfire is a podcast where host Jackson Steger interview leaders that are building new cities and other new models of living for digital nomads, creators and remote workers. Campfire is produced by Cabin, which is building a new kind of city for creators called a network city. Our community is developing  a global coliving network of physical locations that we call neighborhoods. Episodes of Camp...