Mike and Euvie Gilliland on Bracing for and Hedging against an Apocalyptic World

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The Future Thinkers co-founders spent ten years as digital nomads. Now they look after 400 acres in British Columbia, where the walkie-talkies connect to Claude. On episode 111, Mike and Euvie join me to talk about Portal.Place, the project they're building near Wells Gray Provincial Park. Today it operates as a seasonal campsite rather than a residential community, with 200 to 300 people on a busy summer day. We get into what that takes: zoning and road costs, two wells and spare pumps, septic, storms that bring down trees, and six-figure annual maintenance. Then the fun part. Mike 3D printed a CNC machine for about $1,200 and uses AI to model replacement parts for old machinery. They explain the barbell strategy of running forest school and AI side by side, why Euvie's childhood during the collapse of the USSR taught her that you're only as resilient as your community, and their plans for cabins, a makerspace, festivals and a drone-scanned digital twin of the land.Guests: Mike Gilliland & Euvie Ivanova – Portal.Place: https://www.portal.place · Future Thinkers: https://futurethinkers.orgHost: Yitzy Hammer – X: https://x.com/ijhammer · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ijhammer · DLT Law: https://www.dltlaw.ioNew on Substack: https://byndthecode.substack.comMore episodes: https://www.beyondthecode.fm/Follow Beyond the Code and leave a rating. It helps more people find the show.