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Ruggedize Your Life.
Smart choices about where and how you live are the key to surviving and thriving in a planetary crisis. Are you ready?
 • Alex Steffen
Discontinuity is the Job
The planetary crisis and your career: 12 key insights.
 • Alex Steffen
We’re not yet ready for what’s already happened
Welcome to discontinuity, population: everyone
 • Alex Steffen
Old thinking will break your brain.
Why updating the way we look at the world is so critical now, and so hard, and how we can get better at doing it.
 • Alex Steffen
We all live in California, now.
Discontinuity is blowing up, all around us, now, everywhere — and the biggest changes are still incoming.
 • Alex Steffen
This is how a bubble ends: not with a bang, but a discount.
It's begun. We're not ready.
 • Alex Steffen
The Transapocalyptic Now
It's not the end of the world, but it is the end of the world as we've known it. Here's how to make sense of it.
 • Alex Steffen
What is your plan for the planetary crisis?
Six weeks of accelerated insight into how to ruggedize your life.
 • Alex Steffen
The Relocation Bottleneck and You
How the "climate squeeze" is making it harder to find a home that's relatively safe, and why the problem will almost certainly get worse.
 • Alex Steffen
This Letter Could Ruggedize Your Life.
Announcing "A Crash Course in Personal Ruggedization," starting September 8th. You're going to want to check this out.
 • Alex Steffen
Relative Safety in the Planetary Crisis
That nowhere is safe does not mean every place is equally unsafe. Choose wisely.
 • Alex Steffen
⭐️ YOU, TOO, CAN BE A CLIMATE REFUGEE!
10 simple steps for increasing your chances for displacement and ruination.
 • Alex Steffen
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