Advanced Retroadaptics

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 attempting to build a lifeboat flotilla that we can move to.

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