Brett Goldstein runs the newsletter https://SocialStudies.news. On Twitter he's @thatguyBG. ➡️ Get the podcast wherever you get your podcasts https://plnk.to/otherlife ➡️ Request an invitation to https://IndieThinkers.org ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRFP1J6y3y4

Andrew Hitchock bought 21 acres outside Austin to build a village DAO. We talk about the new urbanism, his vision for his village DAO called Montanoso, what he's learned from similar projects such as CabinDAO, and how he plans to make his vision happen. ✦ Andrew's village DAO, Montanoso: https://montanoso.xyz/ ✦ Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndrewhitchcock Other Life ✦ Subscribe to the coolest newsletter in the world https://OtherLife.co ✦ Get a free Urbit planet at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ We're building a new country at https://imperceptible.country IndieThinkers.org ✦ If you're working on independent intellectual work, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org 0:00 Intro 0:58 Milady the only legit NFT 3:53 Andrew's background & village DAO project 7:02 What is Montanoso? 10:18 Village architecture, material & social 15:16 Community building & sustainability 20:08 Village DAO stack 24:08 Co-op inspiration 29:13 Long-term model 34:57 Upsides & downsides of remote village life 38:51 Megacities & charter cities 42:08 Online to IRL community pivot 47:00 Why Texas? 49:10 Closing words ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_oBjhfw_RU

Philip Monk co-authored the Urbit whitepaper with Curtis Yarvin back in 2016. He's now the lead engineer working on Urbit, and a thoughtful writer as well. We discuss how to find frontiers, the philosophy of "correctness at all costs," how the current internet is captured by gradient descent, and how Urbit will achieve mass adoption. ✦ Philip on Urbit: ~wicdev-wisryt ✦ Philip's blog: https://pcmonk.me/ ✦ Get your own Urbit planet at https://imperceptible.computer ✦ Subscribe to the Other Life newsletter at https://otherlife.co ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFdsQStj4PM

Are you a self-absorbed narcissist insensitive to vulnerable people? I took some time to think this through for my own case. Music by Yung Dionysus (https://soundcloud.com/itsnvne). Subscribe to my newsletter at https://tinyletter.com/jmrphy or support my projects at https://patreon.com/jmrphy. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccm0SBqUAHE