Advanced Retroadaptics

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.com/blog/2023/2/5/we-live-in-our-bus-podcast-episodes-12-and-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 is part one of my conversation - stay tuned for part 2.

Find pictures of their build at www.tylerjdisney.com/blog/2023/2/5/we-live-in-our-bus-podcast-episodes-12-and-13

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_Obomsawin
>"If you want to go far, go with friends." https://andrewwhitby.com/2020/12/25/if-you-want-to-go-fast/

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

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 funds his lifestyle and makes it all work, and a lot more.

Jack's Blog: https://animaltreks.wordpress.com/
Jack's ERE Journal: https://forum.earlyretirementextreme.com/viewtopic.php?t=3199

More show notes and links at http://tylerjdisney.com/blog/episode009jack

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 this mean for your life, your community, the lifeboat flotilla?

Full transcript, notes, and references here:
http://tylerjdisney.com/blog/2022/7/22/the-hypercompetence-loop-podcast-episode-007

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/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

The product of one day of Arti's hyperfocus:
https://soundcloud.com/user-727746809/sets/thats-dope-man-hb-jean?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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 ecoprojects across the world.

For a full transcript of the episode, go to
http://tylerjdisney.com/blog/2022/4/11/the-wandering-engineer-podcast-episode-005