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Advanced Retroadaptics
by Tyler Disney
I think consumer society is an arrangement without a future. I'm trying to figure out how to become a postconsumer and spend my time working on the lifeboat flotilla. This podcast is about practical, personal choices we can make to meet the future we're actually going to get head on.
Episodes
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The Horror of Freedom | Episode 034
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.
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You Are Walking Into A Trap: Deep Response Chapter 1 | ep033
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,...
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AMA2 Getting Over the Dark Lust for Money and Status | Episode 032
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.
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I answer questions about money | Episode 031
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...
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Walking the PCT with a Baby | Episode 030
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...
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Meeting our Needs in a Pathological Culture episode 029
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…
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DIY Tenure with Cody Markelz Episode 028
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…
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Skillathon Cooking Debrief ep27
I 'finished' my cooking skill month early. In this episode I reflect on how the process went and what I learned.
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Mapping Ultralearning Projects | Episode 026
I explain how I 'drew a map' of my cooking ultralearning project for Skillathon 2024. https://tylerjdisney.com/blog/skillathon2024
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Intense DIY Skill Acquisition: Ultralearning Win Loops | 025
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/...
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Skillathon 2024 | 024
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/
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Anti-Defeatist | 023
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.
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piratecaptainERE | 022
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…
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A Master in the Art of Living - Cody Markelz | Episode 021
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…
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High Leverage Skills | Episode 20
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.
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Comparative Advantage and Skill Acquisition ep 019
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.
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Polymathic Skill Acquisition Episode 018
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?
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April Projects Update | Episode 17
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.
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Pessimism, Xrisk, Dissensus, and Sailing Adventures, a Flotilla Chat | Episode 16
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...
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Freedom-To, Thru-Hiking, Side Hustles, and Occupy, a Flotilla Chat with Chris | Episode 15
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…
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Fear and Love - Journal Entry 202302 | Episode 14
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.
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Our Bus is Our Home Part 2 | Episode 13
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…
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Our Bus Is Our Home, Part 1 | Episode 012
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…
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Who This Is For and What I Am Doing Here | 011
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...
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I'm Done with Frugality, and my New FU Stash Rules | Podcast Episode 10
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:...
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Building a Life on His Own Terms: Jack McClure | 009
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...
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Listening to the Birds: A Conversation | 008
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.
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The Hypercompetence Loop | 007
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...
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A Conversation with a Belarusian Bazookaman | 006
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…
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The Wandering Engineer | Episode 005
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...
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The Lifeboat Flotilla | 004
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...
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The Skill Ratchet | 003
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...
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Claw your freedom back from the maw of consumer culture | 002
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.
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Facing the Future | 001
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I think consumer society is an arrangement without a future. I'm trying to figure out how to become a postconsumer and spend my time working on the lifeboat flotilla. This podcast is about practical, personal choices we can make to meet the future we're actually going to get head on.
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Tyler Disney
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