Timothy Allen
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I host the Free Cities Podcast. 200+ in-person interviews about building freer places to live, and what happens when people actually move there.
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Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City just:
- Raised 108 15m stupas in nine hours with 40,000 volunteers
- Got a central bank that can hold Bitcoin
- Made a British peer chief justice
Britain can’t approve a bypass in nine years.
Small, nimble countries with a shared culture win.
- Raised 108 15m stupas in nine hours with 40,000 volunteers
- Got a central bank that can hold Bitcoin
- Made a British peer chief justice
Britain can’t approve a bypass in nine years.
Small, nimble countries with a shared culture win.
“You’re from Nagaland?”
@vikbharati couldn’t believe I’d been there. I never had to look for a place to sleep. People would come up to me and say, “Come and stay at my house.”
Full conversation 👇
fountain.fm/episode/XU4TuL…
@vikbharati couldn’t believe I’d been there. I never had to look for a place to sleep. People would come up to me and say, “Come and stay at my house.”
Full conversation 👇
fountain.fm/episode/XU4TuL…
1:02
Crypto exchanges spent the past week freezing withdrawals.
Today Paraguay’s central bank seized Ueno Bank and three million customers were locked out of their own money.
Same problem, different ledger.
Today Paraguay’s central bank seized Ueno Bank and three million customers were locked out of their own money.
Same problem, different ledger.
A lot of anxious talk about stockpiling atm. In my opinion, it’s a short-term fix for a vague problem.
Here’s the long-term strategy that worked for us: move out to the countryside and start a family.
You start thinking like a prepper quite quickly. Fewer trips to the supermarket means more food in storage. Slowly but surely you acquire more tools and fix more things than you buy. Low time preference stops being an idea and becomes a habit.
After a while it’s just a way of life. Being prepared is part of rural family culture.
Here’s the long-term strategy that worked for us: move out to the countryside and start a family.
You start thinking like a prepper quite quickly. Fewer trips to the supermarket means more food in storage. Slowly but surely you acquire more tools and fix more things than you buy. Low time preference stops being an idea and becomes a habit.
After a while it’s just a way of life. Being prepared is part of rural family culture.