Episode Archive
"When I start with a client, I ask them what they want. And usually, the typical way of answering this question is to first think about what is possible and then choose from that. Then I say 'What would you want if anything was possible?'."
"I am very excited about El Salvador. I think they are doing great things there. I think they're going to grow a lot and there's a lot of potential. That said. My experience so far is that it's a bit similar to what's happened with the Honduran ZEDEs: That a lot of people are cheering on the sidelines, wishing the...
"A pet peeve of mine is the idea that Free Cities are going to full of Westerners... I think Most Free Cities that are successful will be local based like Morazan . Morazan can grow a lot faster than Próspera because it's target market is the people of Honduras."
"We're still at the very early stages. This is a new frontier . This is unlike anything we've ever done before on the planet. This is a whole new way of living that's just starting, it's at the very early stages and we're trying to figure out the right mix to make it work. It's kind of like designing Disneyland for...
"When the crap hits the fan in the world, people need places to go and we can't create them fast enough, we can't create them big enough. If ten percent of the world's population says 'I want to go there' we're never going to be big enough to handle that, b ut the people who are making that choice now to have that...
"On the ocean there is no way to get a monopoly on governance . You need static land on which you can win a war and climb to the top of that bloody heirarchy and control other people. On the ocean, if people can move around then governance becomes a product and the only way you can prosper is by serving customers."
"Achieve gender equality, ensure the rule of law, promote justice, and promote non-discrimination. These are the fancy words that they're using, but in reality, the deeper you go into this agenda, the more you realise that there's a plan here that aspires to absolute control over humanity."
"I think that what is significant with the pandemic is not that there was a virus, but how they used people to enforce their ideas against other people. And that is pretty scary because we like to think that we are much more modern today than, say 1930s Germany. But it was pretty obvious I think that during the pan...
"War is the health of the state . I don't think that many people really understand that. That's where the money is made: War, death, destruction. They love it. It gives them an excuse to run the money printer."
"War is the health of the state . I don't think that many people really understand that. That's where the money is made: War, death, destruction. They love it. It gives them an excuse to run the money printer."
"Freedom of speech requires a free space."
"It's so much easier to tear down and criticize than it is to actually come up with an idea for changing something and making something better — and the inspiring thing about the free city projects is that although it's still on a modest scale, there's clear evidence."
"The things I think we're worst at is how we choose leaders, and then how we delegate power, and how a leader passes on power — these are probably the three biggest fuckups that we do as human beings."
"I could see that if someone didn't get this to stop then it would just keep going — as far down as for children. And I just knew deep down 100% that that was wrong and that would cause harm, and I just couldn't let that happen."
"You don't need motivation — you need to have a very clear understanding about your identity and only take on work that that identity is loyal to. Because the days up here, there's no motivation in the world that gets you up here on a bad day."
"I want a world where people come into power, go to the room with the money, open the door — and the room is empty."
"If there was one thing I wanted to change in this world, it would have nothing to do with governments, laws, or taxes — it would simply be the way we relate to our children."
"One day we will generate more revenue from the digital realm than from the physical world."
"We asked ourselves: if we were terminally ill and had two years to live, what would we do? The answer was go and travel the world in a truck. So we built one."
"Not everyone has a sense of self-control. That's why it's easier to live according to rules someone else already set. It takes the burden of responsibility away."
"I describe myself as made in Hong Kong. I lived there for 61 years. And now I want to bring Asia to the UK's door."
