Tyler Disney

Aspiring Solarpunk Polymath

[Astrid Wilde 🌞 @astridwilde1]

@visakanv self sabotaging to avoid wealth is not a virtue

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

Generally speaking I think humans want to do things that are... Fine. The way society is set up funnels people towards activities that are Not Fine, like overwork and numbing consumption and etc.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

The most punk thing anyone can do is learn the mostly boring skills required to reduce dependence on the material flows of industrial society.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

The aim is to be hard to kill, to be robust vs. Economic/natural/biophysical environmental perturbations. This frees up time attention energy for the important work of Doing Whatever You Want

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

On the upside, it helps to numb the frustration and anxiety inherent in 'modern life' that I'm fully capable of developing healthy lifestyle strategies to mitigate and overcome.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

Alcohol is an expensive performance inhibitor with long term neg health effects and elevated exposure to ruin.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

My engineer brain wants to solve everything. This predicament framework is useful for me to check myself. Am I seeking a solution to something that has none?

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

I reread JMGs The Long Descent recently. I liked his categorization of 'problems' as things that have possible solutions and 'predicaments' as things that have possible responses (along some range of appropriateness). Predicaments cannot be 'solved'.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

Adventures in cultivating self regard and the difficulty in doing what you want.

https://t.co/sM0jIghjJl

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@solarpunkcast mission accomplished!

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New podcast with my #skoolie friends!
We talk about skills, #buslife with a kid, getting over middle class baggage, living a life we find actually interesting despite what the world thinks, etc. Was great fun.

https://t.co/kHZs3Z0G6U

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

@wander_wealth Thought you meant $10k/yr at first, and I was like "oh hell yeah, my TTM CoL just got under 10k last month and I'm psyched!" and then... 😆

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

The point of postconsumer praxis isn't to reduce your personal neg impact.

It's to install the cognitive software required to imagine solutions/responses to The Predicament that aren't just greenwash.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

A middle class lifestyle: "It's like, we gave it a shot, it sucked, and let's try something different."
😂
--Favorite line from podcast conversation with my #skoolie friends, coming next week.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

This is my runway. I've earned almost no money since June '21, but my runway has been getting longer. It took work. But now that I've bought myself a longer runway... it's time to focus on the 'making things other people will love' part.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

"There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend...

The less you spend, the easier it is to make more than you spend."

Been reading @paulg's essays recently. ^ is from https://t.co/HUOySad82E

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

@paulg Those essays are gold even if you don't want to start a 'real' startup imo.

I don't want to start a startup.

But I do want to make things other people will love.

The less I spend, the more I get to focus intensely on making those things.

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

There's more to this, though. I think that the high-skill low-spend end of that graph tends to result in a higher level of personal lifestyle resilience. Because you can lose money easier than you can lose skills.

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This is approx. mental model for how much money I need to spend. The line is a constant Quality of Life curve. It's just as good to be at any point on that curve (roughly speaking).

[Tyler Disney @tfdisney]

This was my approach to getting laid off with modest savings. I focused on the skill of practical #frugality, and pushed my runway from 5yrs to 17ys.