In this episode, Johanna and Eric pull back the curtain on six years of off‑grid life during times that have been at least interesting, at a minimum. We talk about how collapse actually feels day to day, the small frictions that add up, and the surprising ways technology both cushions and accelerates the unraveling.
Some highlights:
What living off-grid really looks like compared to the prepper fantasy
How our definition of “collapse” has changed over six years
Where tech genuinely helps, and where it quietly makes things worse
Practical takeaways if you’re collapse‑curious but still grid‑tied
. We also dive deeper into this post in the process. If you’re new here, this essay is the best on-ramp to our collapse framework:
Collapse Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Plenty of people predict a coming collapse while others prepare for a kind of sci-fi apocalypse that sends us back to the dark ages overnight or reduces society to a brutal, Hobbesian state of nature. But history doesn’t play out nicely over 2 hours like a blockbuster screenplay, neither have historical collapses, especially at the scale of something li…
We’d also love to hear from you. What’s your working definition of ‘collapse’ right now, and how does it show up where you live? Let us know in the comments.
