"There is an alternative to the state."

New episode. Daniel Thompson has spent six years building communities outside the system, and his take is that the free cities movement's real bottleneck was never law or land. It's people. Getting them to actually show up, and to stay.

Digital nomadism as a stage, not the destination. Families as the key to critical mass. A broken property ladder swapped for something you genuinely own. And the case for buying a dying European village and rebuilding it with people who think like you.

Recorded in person in Próspera.
Stream it and boost on Fountain (V4V): https://fountain.fm/episode/Ozizg5VY0TnaYxMs04Lu

New episode out. I sat down with Prof. Eric Kaufmann to work out why the West feels like it's coming apart, and where it actually started.

His answer goes right back to the 1960s.

We got into immigration, identity, and the slow erosion of being able to say what you think.

Stream it on @Fountain -
https://fountain.fm/episode/FUw0E74ubpXGo4wBgyJ5

Reflections on my convo with @Tomek ⚡ K.

When asked about everything Próspera doesn't have yet, the missing coffee shop, the missing scooter rental, the missing late venue, the missing grocery store that solves the chicken-and-egg adoption problem, Tomek didn't treat any of it as a problem.

He treated it as the actual opportunity.

His view: a 200-person startup city isn't a finished product you move to. It's an open invitation. Every gap is a business someone hasn't started yet.
The legal and tax infrastructure is already in place. Próspera is the only jurisdiction on earth where you can denominate your books in Bitcoin, pay 1% corporate tax in sats, and sort residency in a few months. What's missing is the texture of normal life. That's where the next wave of builders comes in.

For anyone who has been waiting for a clean reason to start something in a charter city, this is the conversation to listen to.

https://fountain.fm/episode/uDCMkio9FJhVSCZxKKMv

Can anyone advise me?
Is a Mac Mini still a decent way to go for an AI set up at home? Looking to create a very specific AI system for podcast workflow. Won't use it for anything else. Cheers.

In case you missed it a few weeks back, this one is still worth your time, and arguably more relevant by the week.

I sat down with Lucy Connolly. A mother from Northampton who posted an angry, ugly message on X the night three children were murdered in Southport, deleted it within hours, was sentenced to 31 months, and served just over a year inside.

Where is the line between a statement that is vile and one that is criminal? When the state reaches for a prison cell over words, what does that signal, and to whom? Connolly is candid about what she wrote, what prison was actually like, and why she refuses to let the worst thing she ever posted define her.

And if you found this one interesting. This Friday I'll be dropping an interview with Canadian Prof Eric Kaufmann. Where Jordan Peterson brings the emotion, Kaufmann brings the evidence, circling the same cultural storm with survey data instead of sermons.

🎧 Listen or watch the full conversation with Lucy Connolly:

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqw2ySDFyU
🎙️ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ER6rtwYRUDZmSIgWVZ5r
🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LCsRF4EvfEqKVFkw7HGXt?si=f102b5dede09496f
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/182-jailed-for-a-tweet-lucy-connolly/id1655921100?i=1000767892682

@Efrat Fenigson has been on the show 3 times.
Catch up with her episodes in the new archive:

https://www.freecities.fm/search?q=Efrat+Fenigson

An Australian man cured his dog's cancer for $3,000. No pharma company. No FDA. Just a genome sequence, AlphaFold, and a homemade vaccine.

That story is a small window into a much bigger shift, and it's the subject of our new Free Cities Podcast episode with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City and a General Partner at Infinita VC.

Niklas has probably done more than anyone to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. We sat down in Austin to talk about why the way medicine gets made is starting to come apart, and what replaces it.

A few of the threads we pull on:
- Why aging isn't officially a disease, and why that quietly holds back one of the best-funded industries in the world.
- How China went from near zero to 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a single decade, and what that should tell the United States.
- Why Right to Try laws in Montana and New Hampshire might matter more than any federal reform.
- Robin Hanson's idea that your doctor and your life insurer should be the same company, so that someone finally has an incentive to keep you alive.
- And the question underneath all of it: why do you need permission to try to save your own life?

Apparently, a lot of this stuff is going to happen in my lifetime.
And I'm quite old. Fingers crossed.

Watch the episode 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfN8o-GN7c

New episode is up, but only for subs rn.

Niklas Anzinger has spent the last few years building a biotech hub inside Próspera. In this conversation he makes the case that the FDA's monopoly on who gets to try what medicine is costing lives, and that the cracks are finally appearing.

Dog cancer vaccines built at home for $3,000 with AlphaFold.
Sid Sijbrandij going founder mode on his own bone cancer.
China eating 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a decade.
Montana and New Hampshire quietly cracking open the Right to Try framework.
And why Próspera's insurance-based regulatory model might be the most important governance innovation nobody's talking about.

Early access on @Fountain now. General release Friday at 6.15am GMT.

https://fountain.fm/episode/d0sQp6idoayM1GrrVXHx

Most people think geopolitics is complicated.
It isn't.
It's the same playbook. For 300 years. Maritime dominance. Broken countries. Managed migration. Dollar zones. The same families. The same institutions.
Patrick Henningsen has spent decades reporting from war zones, reading the classified think tank papers, watching the narratives get manufactured in real time.
This conversation goes deep.
Ukraine. Israel. Migration. NATO. The Anglo-American Empire. The petrodollar. Why Russia didn't fold. Why Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv. Who actually benefits.
Not a conspiracy theory. A coherent picture most people have never been shown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpVqVGanLY