The Journal of the Wandering Engineer

Facing the Future | Podcast Episode 001

I make a podcast now. It’s called Advanced Retroadaptics: Lifestyle Design at the End of the World.

It’s going to take a few episodes to flesh it out, but expect topics related to:

  • principles and theory for maximizing personal autonomy, mastery, and purpose (AMP)

  • interviews with people who’ve achieved high levels of AMP and largely escaped the clutches of industrial consumer society

  • updates on my own journey to become an autonomous nonconsumer

  • explanations and theories as to why anyone would want to become a nonconsumer, and wtf that even means

Here’s the first episode:

A Death Valley Farewell

How to Quit Your Job if you Can’t Quit Your Job