One says relax. One bought a Bunker. Two founders on whether AI is coming for your job.

- Liam Martin is the co-founder of Time Doctor and Running Remote, and the creator of Peppermint, an AI tool that builds a working digital twin of you out of your emails, messages and calls. Nick Francis spent more than fifteen years building and running Help Scout as a fully remote company. Both were recorded at Running Remote in Austin.

When Timothy Allen first sat down with Liam Martin a year ago in Morocco, he was the one asking what an LLM actually was. Liam has been deep in this world for a while, which is exactly why it is worth paying attention when he says tens of millions of jobs could be gone inside twelve months, and why he has bought a chalet in the Canadian woods with its own water and power, just in case. Along the way: a digital twin that answered his accountant's questions for him, an AI that told him the premise of his conference talk was wrong and then built a better one in 78 seconds, and the p(doom) figure that AI insiders quote in private but not on stage.

Nick Francis could hardly disagree more. He calls himself an incredible optimist, and he makes a good case. His argument is that the last ten percent of any work, the craft, the judgement, the human touch, is exactly the part AI cannot do, and the part that is about to matter most. He also has a clear-eyed read on where remote work actually stands now that the pandemic push has faded, and why the second wave raises the bar rather than lowering it.

Timothy lands somewhere in between: fascinated, slightly rattled, and increasingly convinced that the one thing which holds its value is the human experience itself. A genuine argument about the future of work, in which nobody is entirely sure who is right.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

0:00:30 - Introduction to episode

0:03:02 - Veritas Villages: the Atenas reveal

0:06:47 - Start of conversation: a year on, and the floor has dropped out

0:09:10 - Distributed people to distributed intelligence

0:10:04 - The AI that rewrote a conference talk in 78 seconds

0:12:00 - Peppermint, and the digital twin that answers your emails

0:14:38 - Is it creepy? Privacy and self-sovereign AI

0:16:59 - The prepper chalet in the Canadian woods

0:17:48 - p(doom): ten percent in public, seventy to eighty in private

0:18:16 - The Anthropic security lead who moved to Austria

0:20:08 - Why Timothy wants the human experience, not the AI copy

0:22:34 - AI slop, and rejecting AI-written show notes

0:24:37 - Government oversight and the case that AGI has already happened

0:26:15 - Waymos, novelty and the human element

0:28:01 - Where is the floor?

0:29:02 - Thirty, forty, fifty percent unemployment

0:29:31 - The OpenAI maths that gives the game away

0:32:36 - Does it eat its way to the top?

0:34:32 - Typing pools, electricity and general technologies

0:36:41 - The horses of 1910

0:37:57 - Why humans will impose limits on themselves

0:39:11 - Liam's thirty percent chance of utopia

0:40:53 - Veritas Villages

0:41:37 - Nick Francis: what is the second wave of remote work?

0:43:26 - Remote before the pandemic, and why talent was the reason

0:45:21 - The trade-offs nobody mentions

0:46:57 - Retreats, Rome and crowning a Pope

0:48:42 - What is actually happening to remote work right now

0:50:28 - Hubs, Googles and the geographic perimeter problem

0:53:14 - No head office: the branding question

0:54:04 - The future of work

0:55:38 - AI: which side of the fence is Nick on?

0:56:11 - Why he is an incredible optimist

0:57:12 - Jensen Huang and the cost-cutting trap

1:00:00 - Why software as a service survives

1:02:00 - The last ten percent, and why craft is the moment

1:03:27 - Wrap-up and how to support the show

Guests: Liam Martin - Peppermint | Running Remote | Time Doctor | X | LinkedIn. Nick Francis - Help Scout | Website | LinkedIn

Liam’s first appearance on the show, recorded in Morocco a year earlier: listen here

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He knew the men who tried to start their own countries. He watched every one of them fail.

- Mark Frazier has been in this movement longer than almost anyone alive. He put out libertarian magazines in high school, and by eighteen he had been made publisher of Reason, back when it ran out of a truck driver's apartment and had three hundred subscribers. That was 1970. Over the following half century he worked on free zones in more than fifty countries, advised the Reagan administration on enterprise zones, consulted for the World Bank and USAID, and wrote the step-by-step guide on how to build these places. He is president of the nonprofit Openworld and chairs the advisory board of the Startup Societies Foundation.

Timothy Allen sits down with Mark in Próspera for a genuine oral history of the Free Cities idea, told by someone who was there for its strangest chapters. Mark knew the men who tried to start their own countries in the sixties and seventies: Werner Stiefel and his Atlantis project, Mike Oliver and the flags raised on seamounts off Tonga and Vanuatu. He was a reporter on the ground in 1975 when one of those breakaway nations collapsed, and the epiphany he had on the way home became his life's work.

What sets Mark apart is the lessons he drew from watching so much fail. Do not fall in love with a location and push, he says. Make it a prize that countries compete to win, the way he once got twelve nations bidding to host the first spaceport on Earth. And do not build an enclave that grows rich while the neighbours grow resentful. Design it from day one so the people already living there share in the upside.

From there the conversation ranges a very long way: Shenzhen and Montego Bay, the birth of offshore call centres, thirty-dollar micro-vouchers that put Sri Lankan villagers into university, and why Mark thinks AI is about to pull the rug out from under the entire free zone model. And in the final stretch it turns genuinely strange, in the best way: abundance, spirituality, whether a silicon chip can want something, and a rat experiment called Universe 25 that neither host nor guest could quite let go of.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

0:00:00 - Welcome and introduction

0:03:15 - Veritas Villages

0:07:28 - Start of conversation: fifty years in the making

0:10:32 - The lost new-country projects: Atlantis, Minerva and the seamounts

0:15:37 - The epiphany in Fiji: make it a prize to be won

0:17:06 - The spaceport prize and twelve competing countries

0:24:18 - On the ground in a failed state

0:27:32 - Montego Bay, Shenzhen and the birth of offshore work

0:32:25 - Uruguay and Zonamerica: the gold standard

0:35:22 - Anti-fragility and designing for shared upside

0:41:13 - Why Silicon Valley actually worked

0:45:12 - Build-operate-transfer, leasing land, and debt-for-equity swaps

0:49:20 - Leading with a gift, and what Próspera got right

0:53:29 - Micro-vouchers and the Sri Lankan school that reached university

1:04:06 - Forty million freelancers and the reputation problem

1:06:16 - Why AI pulls the rug out from under the free zone model

1:09:58 - The future of zones: experience, safety and serendipity

1:10:43 - A daughter, a horse, and learning from an AI Buck Brannaman

1:14:48 - The Alpha School and AI-delivered learning

1:20:28 - Hiring on proof of work, not diplomas

1:33:26 - The founder's manifesto: lead with education

1:36:13 - The gentrification trap and vesting the people who add value

1:38:36 - The Phoenicians and gifts on a beach

1:49:53 - On the fence about AI: helpful, hollowing, and dangerous

1:53:00 - Why elite capture may not come in a world of abundance

1:54:04 - Spirituality as the last human premium

2:02:36 - Universe 25 and the danger of a world without limits

2:10:17 - A prediction for the next twenty years

2:16:04 - Wrap-up and how to support the show

Guest: Mark Frazier - LinkedIn | Openworld | Startup Societies Foundation | Research papers

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A Country on the Internet, a Passport by 2050, and the Death of the CV

- Joey Flores is Head of Marketing at SafetyWing, the Y Combinator-backed company building a global social safety net for remote workers. A two-time startup founder whose YC-funded music startup was acquired, he dropped out of high school at sixteen and now lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Timothy Allen sits down with Joey at the Running Remote conference in Austin, Texas, for a conversation about building for the 21st century nomadic life. SafetyWing's pitch is simple and audacious: your healthcare, income protection and pension come from your country and stop following you the moment you live a borderless life, so they are building a safety net that travels with you instead. The endgame is to launch the first country on the internet, through Plumia, the nonprofit think tank spun out of SafetyWing and run by Lauren Razavi. They have mapped the vision to 2050, passport included.

Around the edges, the conversation ranges widely: why you cannot simply build a new Silicon Valley wherever you fancy, an unusually honest insider's view of what digital nomads are doing to cities like Oaxaca, a company culture involving rented hotels in Patagonia and a houseplant stipend, a friend allegedly building a Mach 10 passenger plane, and what AI is doing to hiring, including Joey's own story of how resume-screening software made a company founder without a degree invisible to employers.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Joey Flores - LinkedIn | SafetyWing | Plumia

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Second Passports, Plan B Residencies, and the Americas Super Cycle

- Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, an immigration agency covering residency visas across Latin America. A Canadian-American software developer, he began travelling after reading Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek and arriving in Playa del Carmen in 2018.

Timothy Allen sits down with Vance in Próspera for a practical guide to internationalising your life. They discuss the five routes to a second passport, why ancestry should usually be investigated first, why Mexico often suits Americans while Paraguay appeals to Europeans, and how some Latin American residencies can be maintained with very little time on the ground.

The conversation then turns to the larger shift Vance sees taking place across the world: declining confidence in Europe, growing optimism in Latin America, El Salvador's transformation, Dubai's sudden vulnerability, and his belief that the present economic super cycle belongs to the Americas.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Vance - My Latin Life | X | YouTube | Podcast | Newsletter

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Spencer Heath, the Entrecom Model, and the City With One Owner

– Joyce Brand is a proper OG of the Free Cities world: author of 'Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities', co-author of Spencer Heath's posthumous Economics and the Spiritual Life of Free Men, and one of the very few people in this movement who has actually lived in a Free City. She spent three years as an early resident and chronicler of Ciudad Morazán, the "blue-collar" Honduran ZEDE built not for tech founders and digital nomads but for ordinary Honduran workers, in what was statistically one of the most dangerous parts of the country.

Timothy Allen sits down with Joyce in Próspera for her first ever podcast recorded in person. It is the story of one of the great late-life plot twists: a forty-five year obsession with incentives that began with five unnecessary typewriters in Portland, Oregon in 1981, ran through a decade in Hollywood as a film editor, and ended with her moving to Honduras at 71 to watch a city rise from bare farmland. As she puts it, life begins at 70.

It is also probably the clearest explanation you will hear of the entrecom model: Spencer Heath's idea that landowners, not politicians, are the natural providers of governance services, made real by the Italian industrialist Massimo Mazzone. Along the way: why Morazán and Próspera look completely different but are structurally almost identical, and what it is like to live in a place while the incoming government campaigns on destroying the legal framework it stands on.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Joyce Brand - Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities | The Morazan Model | Linktree

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Nomad Villages, the Bali Playbook, and Building a Caribbean Frontier

– Gonçalo Hall is a pioneer of the digital nomad movement, the builder behind the world's first Nomad Village in Madeira and the founder of NomadX, who now runs the Roatán Tourism Bureau, a Próspera company whose job is to put a little-known Caribbean island on the map. A year ago, in episode 130, he told Timothy that almost nobody in the digital nomad world had heard of Próspera, and that its real problem was community and public relations. Twelve months later he has moved to Roatán with his wife and young daughter and works inside the ecosystem he was once only studying from the outside.

Timothy Allen sits down with Gonçalo in person in Próspera, having spent almost a month living and working there himself. It is a candid conversation about what is genuinely working in this frontier and what plainly is not yet, and about whether a place this early can become the builder's dream Gonçalo believes it already is.

They move from the full-circle story of two strangers meeting in Morocco to both ending up in Honduras, through the hard-won lessons of Madeira and Bali, to the thing Gonçalo says matters most and is hardest to fake: community, experience, and integrating the local people. Timothy is sceptical about the frontier gaps, the disjointedness, the missing beach and the missing cafe, and Gonçalo does not pretend they are solved. But both agree the opportunity here is unlike anything else in the space.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Gonçalo Hall - X @Gonzohall | Roatán Tourism Bureau | NomadX

Gonçalo's first appearance: EP 130 - Why Most Digital Nomads Have Never Heard of Próspera

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Community, Mesh Networks, and the Plan to Build a Parallel Society on Bitcoin

– Polycarp Nakamoto is the masked, anonymous figure at the centre of Lab 484, a research laboratory and cluster of startups based in Austin, Texas, building for Web 5: a second internet that runs peer-to-peer on Bitcoin nodes rather than the centralised choke points of the web we use today. Through Lab 484 and its flagship Archipelago operating system, the community is assembling the hardware and software for a censorship-resistant mesh network, owned by nobody and run by everybody, that they believe will be needed when the internet as we know it fails.

Timothy Allen sits down with Poly in person at a community compound near Austin for one of the more unusual conversations in the show's history. It is a conversation about whether you can rebuild the internet from the ground up on the one piece of digital infrastructure Poly considers genuinely decentralised: Bitcoin.

They move from the question of anonymity, through the architecture of a second internet (mesh networks, Bitcoin nodes, Nostr, e-cash), to the harder problem sitting underneath all of it: people. Along the way: why Poly thinks the internet has roughly five years left, what a private AI living inside a shipping-container home looks like, why he frames the whole thing as a fork between a CBDC dystopia and a sovereign solarpunk future, and a genuine back-and-forth about whether any of this survives contact with the human condition. Timothy is an old Bitcoiner who runs his own node and lives on a remote farm, so in many ways Poly is preaching to the choir. But this is not an infomercial for the sovereign life, and the scepticism is real.

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Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Polycarp Nakamoto - X @polycarpweb5 | Lab 484 | Archipelago Foundation | Archipelago live demo | Public alpha

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Building New Cities Starts With People: Digital Nomads, Families, and the Minimum Viable Society

– Daniel Thompson is the co-founder and CEO of Noma Collective, a global community of remote workers, location-independent professionals and, increasingly, families, who travel and live together in different parts of the world a month at a time. Born and raised in the UK to a family of musicians, he spent his early twenties in music marketing and PR and ran one of the biggest weekly nights in the dubstep scene before leaving to travel. After two years on the road he settled in Buenos Aires, where he launched the country's first arts members club, and spent summers running large-scale European festivals including Outlook, Dimensions and Secret Solstice. He moved to Belize in 2019, and when the pandemic hit he reopened a hotel as a pop-up co-live that became Noma Collective in 2020. He has since acquired the work-travel program Hacker Paradise, and now develops the ideas at the centre of this conversation: his "7 Stages of Remote Life" framework and his new Minimum Viable Society project. He is based in Mérida, Mexico.

Timothy Allen sits down with Daniel in Próspera for a conversation about the quiet problem underneath the whole free cities movement: not law, not land, but people. How do you actually get human beings to turn up, and then how do you get them to stay?

They move from the idea that digital nomadism is a stage rather than a destination, through Daniel's belief that families are the missing key to critical mass, to his Minimum Viable Society project and a genuine disagreement between the two men about whether you build a new community on empty land or on one of the thousands of depopulated villages already standing across southern Europe. Along the way: how Noma started by accident in a locked-down Belize hotel, why it turned out to be solving loneliness rather than infrastructure, what a portable schooling network looks like, how a broken property ladder might be replaced with subscription-to-ownership, and why integrating with the existing local community matters more than any amount of capital.

In this conversation:

Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Daniel Thompson - Noma Collective | LinkedIn | Minimum Viable Society | Instagram @nomacollectivehq

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Woke's 1960s Origins, the Race Taboo, and the End of the Progressive Era

– Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. One of the most prominent academic voices on nationalism, national identity, and political demography, he is the author of Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin, 2018) and Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution (2024, published in the United States as The Third Awokening). After two decades at Birkbeck, University of London, he left in 2023 for Buckingham, Britain's self-described free speech university, following what he calls five years of steady hostility and being "cancelled by a thousand cuts."

Timothy Allen sits down with Eric in the UK for an honest, often uncomfortable conversation about race, identity, and the things you are no longer allowed to say out loud.

They move from Kaufmann's own cancellation story across two decades in British academia, through his central argument that woke is not new but the late-stage unfolding of the 1960s, to the claim that the whole edifice traces back to a single sacred taboo around race that formed in the mid-1960s and was then stretched and weaponised. Along the way: how affirmative action quietly mutated from equal treatment into enforced equal outcomes, whether woke is driven by women entering the professions or by feminine ideas, the survey data on who actually holds these views, and the hardest stretch of the conversation for Timothy, immigration, identity, and the contested idea of white culture, where the two men disagree openly and calmly. They close on Kaufmann's forecast that the progressive era has peaked, but that years of polarisation and populism lie ahead before anything settles.

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Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Eric Kaufmann - University of Buckingham | X | sneps.net

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Self-Sovereign Medicine: Biotech, Right to Try, and the Cracks in the FDA's Monopoly

– Niklas Anzinger is a German entrepreneur who has probably done more than any single person to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. He is the founder and General Partner of Infinita VC, the first VC fund based in Próspera, Honduras, and the founder and CEO of Infinita City, formerly known as Vitalia, a network of hubs for longevity biotech acceleration. He also hosts the Stranded Technologies podcast, which has featured guests including Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan. Niklas is a returning guest to the show.

Timothy Allen sits down with Niklas in Austin, Texas, a few days after spending a month living alongside him in Próspera, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from aging as a disease and the FDA's 1962 turning point, through China's rise to 30% of global pharma licensing deals in just ten years, Sid Sijbrandij's AI-assisted cancer fight and the Australian who built a personalised cancer vaccine for his dog using AlphaFold for roughly the cost of a genome sequence, to the Right to Try movement taking shape in Montana and New Hampshire and the regulatory model that could replace the FDA monopoly, and finally to what comes next for Próspera, phase one trials as a commercial beachhead, the Massimo Mazzone profit-first model at Ciudad Morazán, and why the ZEDE framework may be the most underappreciated governance innovation of our time.

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Timestamps (audio version, includes Timothy's episode introduction):

Guest: Niklas Anzinger - LinkedIn | Infinita VC | Stranded Technologies Podcast

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