Establishing Tech-Focused Remote Outposts for a Plan B Prep
With uncertainty in the environment around us, many people are trying to establish an escape plan. One escape we are seeing as a pattern is the outpost/bunker genre we seeing trending in video games, subculture, and even having a music genre.
However, there is another angle – the ability to setup an operational center away from the city or a tech center. A space for micro-entrepreneurs assisted by artificial intelligence and remote talent to create solutions or provide specialized services.
In this article we want to discuss these outposts and how to start planning for one. I see the modern outpost model of both an escape/opportunity space. It is a space that is more realistic than a downtown office space to run micro-entrepreneurial business models and may be a better choice.
Outpost Background
Before we get started, there is an genre called outpost ambiance themed around outpost designs, a darker offshoot of study hop. So the above is an example of such a video.
An outpost is a real estate space where you setup for your business to conduct operations. The type of operations is key. Let’s discuss some entities that setup outposts.
Government. The government is the biggest outpost creator in the world. They setup secret outposts to run surveillance, torture programs, intelligence gathering, special military operations.
Kooks. These are people are considered conspiracy theorists that ran into the mountain cabins. But the kooks are usually the “wise ones” considered SME in their area of practice.
Cartels. Dealer spots, trap houses, stash house, grow farms, brothels, weapon cache, are all outposts and setups by the cartel to manage their operations and grip on a region and area.
Lone Wolves. These types are considered survivalists who have a background in military or law enforcement and mainly about man vs wild quest in solitude. They build their home, hunt their food and companioned with a hunter-grade dog. In urban areas, this would be someone like John Wick.
Cults. These are the religious and racist nutjobs who setup compounds in remote areas and slowly and quietly take over rural towns with their nutjob followers and members.
In this article, we are looking at the new paradigm of an ex-corpo running a cyberpunk agency in a remote outpost. Be mindful this is not new – Silicon Valley has plenty of these kinds of characters who have nice remote forest homes outside the Valley in the mountains I had to drive up mountain roads to visit and discuss high-tech and Undernet stuff back in the 1990s.
Modern Outpost Model
We do not recommend some kook building their own cabin or these goofy YouTube videos of someone building their own bunker – they building that only for the clicks and views. What we recommend is operating in plain sight – get a mountain cabin.
The problem with that is the demand and cost of a mountain cabin even in rural areas in the Appalachians are expensive and up in the $300k to $400k range. The next section is going to discuss global options for cheaper but there are advantages that are baked in the high price for an American option.
Even at $350k for a nice mountain cabin, you have access to water and sewer, gun ownership, right to privacy, right to enterprise, and able to purchase the proper remote data center setup to run your operation.
Don’t balk at the price. Go and check your 401K, you got the money so stop tripping – lol, don’t tell us you waiting to be old and pooping in an adult diaper before you figured out you should have hustled that 401K money when you was in your 40s and 50s.
You do not have time to build a cabin and play survivalist; your job is to hook up the operational equipment to run your outpost and setup the global escape hustle in silence.