Anti-Defeatist | 023

Want intellectual and creative freedom without all the administrative hassle, politics, and drama that goes along with traditional tenure responsibilities? Give this one a listen. Cody Markelz came back on to discuss his “DIY Tenure” idea.

SHOW NOTES

• My first conversation with Cody where we go into his story in much greater depth.
• Tenure
• DIY Tenure
• The Art Gallery Cody is cofounding, Darmera.
• Cody’s Science Website
• Cody’s Art Website
• Skillathon 2024 (also I’m documenting my Skillathon year here).
• His 5 year plan including his DIY Master’s Programs projects
• Dustin's website / insta
• What would you do if you got zeroed out tomorrow?
• Jacob's second stoa presentation

I 'finished' my cooking skill month early. In this episode I reflect on how the process went and what I learned.

I explain how I 'drew a map' of my cooking ultralearning project for Skillathon 2024. https://tylerjdisney.com/blog/skillathon2024

Almost all of the work I've put into designing Skillathon 2024 comes straight from either Scott Young's book, his blog posts, or his online course Rapid Learner. In this video I go over the main concepts I'm using from Scott's work to design my Skillathon year.
https://www.scotthyoung.com/
https://tylerjdisney.com/blog/skillat...

I'm going to learn one new skill each month in 2024.

Blog Post
Forum Thread
Podcast ep21 with Cody

Cody's science and art sites:
https://www.codymarkelz.art/
https://www.codymarkelz.com/

Our culture suffers from an impoverished imagination of possible futures. People assume that if you don't believe in Star Trek then you are a doomer. This is dumb. Allow me to clarify.

Bryan aka Jin+Guice runs his life so he can live aligned with his values and desires: pursuing curiosity, cooking, playing music, dumpster diving, and founding a record label that makes records for free to the artist with possibility of making money on the back end. He talks with me about freedom, semiERE, how to do what you want, optimizing for fucking around, and a theoretical cost of living of "idk, bike tubes I guess".

Cody Markelz aka mountainFrugal visited me here in Ft. Dirtbag for a few days. We explored the desert, cooked, talked, and recorded this podcast episode. I feel like I've just had a crazy intense masterclass in the art of living. The calm wisdom and stoke Cody embodies is inspirational. How to live like you're going to die, how to do only what you want to do, intuitive organization and planning, relationship advice, bushcrafting, academic and startup life, Epicurean Dinners, and much more.

https://www.codymarkelz.art/
https://www.codymarkelz.com/
His ERE journal.

Continuing the theme of Skills for Freedom! I dig into high leverage skills and how to run the numbers in order to forget the numbers.

In this episode I take a closer look at the concept of comparative advantage and how we can use it to think productively about polymathic skill acquisition.