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This is very interesting thanks for sharing Scott. I’m curious - how are the tshirts and bag signaling?

Scott, this isn’t so much moving away from COL as it is adding another cognitive tool to the kit. Your question is good though. For the sorts of things I’ve got in mind we’re talking about floating my COL from 0.5 to 1.0 or maybe 1.5 jafi, temporarily. If an experiment came in at >>1jafi I’d have to...

“Not FI in terms of random yolo lifestyle experiments”

Small ERE thought of the day: at a certain point/circumstance, COL isn’t as important a metric to watch as net flow. Yes, duh, but I think focusing on COL can subtly limit imagination for freedom-to. For example I’m planning on crossing a FI threshold soon and then being “done” with earning money, b...

Grundomatic, your point that Tucson is already thinking about and doing something about the limitations reminds me of "The future is already here, it just isn't distributed evenly" (William Gibson) and "The ruins of the unsustainable are the frontiers of tomorrow." - (Bruce Sterl...

Yes, I'd say mmmhq is a mixtape of coworking space, makerspace, tool lending library, gym, and community-event space.

I think you guys are underestimating people's willingness to pay for something like this. I think MMMHQ is replicable in just about any decent sized city. If I lived near one, I'd sign up! I'd love to have a space like that with approximately like-minded people. I wouldn't start or co-run one, thou...

I think I remember [him building/using] that from a few MMM blog posts. I didn't know that it was at MMM HQ as opposed to his personal backyard. There are at least two - the one he built in his backyard and blogged about which is 352sf, on a permanent foundation with in-slab radiant, and the one at...

Have you considered just making a couple of these yourself and seeing what kind of market you have? I am planning on building at least one this summer and potentially another in the fall, but for use at QH/site B, not sale. You make me think, though, that I could put some adverts out and say "...

I've been intrigued by the Longmont HQ for quite some time, on paper it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, one of my takeaways was "well, yeah, most people don't need much of an excuse to come hang out and chat with people who don't suck. No need to overthink it, just make a space they can come, have...

Good points. Skills: as long as crew size is <=6 or so, I think it's enough for just one person to know specifically what they're doing for this kind of project. As a major purpose of the project is to develop skills, and overhead will be roughly $10/day per person, we won't need to be rushing in or...

An alternative to selling to campsites and WFH'ers would be to make microshelters for tiny house villages for the unhoused, taking into account common sense . I dont' know enough about how those projects work to know if it's a realistic option but it's something I'd look into. Probably not for seaso...

About 25 million people live within a 4hr drive of QH, so presumably we'd target those people. Another 10 million live a six hour drive away in case no one in SoCal wants some awesome glamping pods / backyard WFH studios. An idea would be to find people operating glamping campgrounds and the like, a...

I met with MMM himself at his HQ in Longmont, CO a couple days ago. He is super chill and down to earth. He was curious about my projects (fest, QH) and what's going on in the ERE world (ERE City). I came away encouraged about moving forward with efforts to bring people together. A few notes from my...

Okay, I've got a piratecaptainERE scheme. I'm interested in critical feedback and riffing. The basic idea: A group of us draws up articles to come together at QH and spend a ~3mo season building micro-shelters/camping pods/etc for sale on the open market. Like this , or this , or this . Design tbd, ...

Wow @AxelHeyst this is a very nice contrarian proposition. Plus I suspect you've not pulled it out of thin air as you are desert(ish?) based. I had to come up with some kind of justification for my life choices :roll:. QH gets less annual rainfall than Tucson (but has a much more secure and abundan...

I would find it extremely ironic if ERE city ended up in Tucson, or any city that gets its water from the Colorado River. (I hope this comment doesn't derail your master plans @grundomatic ;) ) Then again, Brad Lancaster lives in Tucson . For example, in my desert city of Tucson, Arizona (where we ...

The most ERE way to wash clothes is to put them in a bucket with DIY detergent etc and then take a bus a route that travels over roads with lots of potholes. Sit in the back of the bus because there’s more angular momentum back there. ETA: actual advice for hand drying: 1. wring out your garment as ...

Welcome Gewie! Sounds like you’ve made solid progress and are in the process of putting a bow on it. Looking forward to following along.

@Ego that’s the most compelling argument I’ve yet come across for an intentional community esque approach: you can screen people and boot the few bad apples that slip through.