Kia Ora, Nihao and hello! Welcome to the Chiwi Journal Podcast. I’m your host Camellia Yang.

My guest today is Doug Antin. He is the Founder and Author of TSI Global Media, a company covering the Digital Age and how the current digital transformation creates a new class of people. Doug is also writing The Sovereign Individual Weekly Newsletter, providing insights, analysis, and actionable advice helping you become a Sovereign Individual and make the most of the digital transformation.

We discussed:

1. What’s the definition of the Sovereign Individual? Why should you care?
2. How does a book written 20 years ago perfectly predict our current world?
3. What digital trends support sovereign individual lifestyles?
4. How do we deal with information abundance as a content creator?
5. What role does blockchain and bitcoin play in this Sovereign Individual movement?
6. Is there a conflict between becoming a sovereign individual vs be part of the community?
7. Why should you have multiple citizenships?
8. What stops people from becoming sovereign individuals? What’s the reason behind that?
9. How to cultivate multiple income streams?
10. If you can live and work anywhere, where would you go, and what criteria to consider?
11. What’s the difference between a sovereign individual and an anarchist?
12. How to build the system to run a weekly newsletter?
13. Which three books to read when consider being a sovereign individual?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• How to Start a New Country by Balaji Srinivasan
• Neo-medievalism
• The Sovereign Individual Weekly
• Important Things About the Digital Age
• Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• Night as Frontier: Colonizing the World After Dark by Murray Melbin

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