Stand-Up Call - 7/15/25
Welcome to All Hands on Deck—a special podcast for Tortuga Society members and Tortuga Media paychads.
These are recordings of Tortuga’s biweekly standup calls, in which our guys convene to update the group on progress with job stacking and assorted ventures, theorycraft business ideas, and shoot the shit on issues of the day.
Most episodes will be available to paid subscribers — our spicer discussions will be exclusive to full Tortuga Society Members.
Topics Include:
How Tortuga evolved from Walt’s personal brand into a sovereign institution
The importance of building infrastructure beyond the founder archetype
Why Theon was already acting CEO before the title made it official
Substack vs. Reddit — platforms of power, friction, and cultural bandwidth
Is Substack becoming AV slop? Why the feed is failing and what might replace it
Could we build a competitor? And if so, what should it actually look like?
Dead Internet Theory vs. the Ubiquitous Internet Theory — everything’s not fake, just everywhere
The collapse of sincerity and rise of ambient performativity
Zoomer facial optimization and what it says about social anxiety and identity
