Mere Mortals Conversations

Kyrin Down & Juan Granados

What is Effective Philosophy? Juan and I simplify hard to grasp concepts into pragmatic takeaways that can be applied to every day life (fitness, goal setting, work, parenting, travel, hobbies, finances, etc.,).

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Mere Mortals Conversations

Episodes (770)

Sunday The Sovereign Individual | Will Network States Displace The Nation?
Sun Feb 8th Abundance Mindset In An Abundant World | Is An Infinite Utopia Possible?
Mon Feb 2nd Becoming An Owner Of The Network | Chris Dixon's 'Read Write Own'

Mere Mortals Conversations

Feb 15, 2026
2 hours
84 MB

Will the lowering returns on violence along with digital wealth storage lead to an exodus? In Episode #514 of ' Meanderings', Juan & I discuss: The Sovereign Individual book (1997) highly recommended by Bitcoiners, early chapters bogged in Y2K angst versus strikingly prescient calls on digital money, decentralised media and the emerging cyber economy, how portable digital wealth might change the return on violence, what sovereignty means when nation-states still control critical infrastructure, historical arcs the book frames well (church cohesion and bloat, the rise of nation-states, industrial-era labour leverage) and where its predictions remain wavy, why megapolitics is way...

Mere Mortals Conversations

The Sovereign Individual | Will Network States Displace The Nation?

Kyrin Down & Juan Granados

00:00 -01:32:05