Tortuga Testimonials
Is Walt Bismarck a grifter? Let's ask your favorite Substackers.
First a bit of context for bewildered newfriends:
Over the past few months The Tortuga Society has grown rapidly, evolving into a robust professional network, a vibrant community, and a promising startup.
Because my partner
and I are deeply invested in member curation, we’ve been promoting the Society almost exclusively through my Substack and via . As a consequence we’ve had the good fortune to draw a significant number of prominent Substackers into our ranks—at this point more than enough to credibly vouch for the organization and forevermore dispel those mean-minded accusations that poor Walt Bismarck is a nefarious grifter.If what follows isn’t sufficient and you’re still on the fence about joining, feel free to reach out in the DMs so I can walk you through our full suite of resources and we can assess if you’re a good fit. Also note that I have a full refund policy1, which means there’s literally zero risk to signing up if you’d just like to see what Tortuga is about.
But that’s enough from Cap’n Walt—my boys will take it from here.
Happy reading.
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As I am writing this, I am currently in the enviable position of trying to decide which of two job offers to accept. A Tortugan might ask, "why not both?" and the answer is because I already have a job.
While I would consider it entirely feasible for a young motivated developer to work all three of these jobs at once, in my current situation I need a little more work-life balance, so I am limiting myself to two jobs.
When I met Walt, I was already a fairly experienced Job Stacker, but Tortuga is the group that I wish had existed when I began my journey in the wild, wacky world of raiding corporate America back in 2021. Just having the benefit of learning from other people's experience versus learning the hard way would have made it worth it in and of itself. Even for an experienced job stacker, the idea sharing, the collation of job postings, and the camaraderie would be worth it, but as Walt and Theon's staffing project ramps up, Tortuga is going to be a gold mine.
One of the aspects that has been most encouraging to see, for me at least, is the degree to which new "barnacles" have gotten spun up on tech. The leadership of Tortuga has done an excellent job assembling learning paths for young fellows who have no actual tech experience, and need to "level up" before they can really even start applying for jobs. This is the kind of stuff that people pay upwards of $5000 to attend a Bootcamp to learn, but it does require a certain degree of agency to pursue. We can lead a horse to water, but we can't make him drink. I've been very encouraged by the number of guys who have come in, got trained up, and landed their first tech job in just a few months.
In a way, this is almost more valuable than job stacking. As Peter Thiel said, the hardest part is going from 0 to 1. If we want to fight the narrative that the tech sector "needs" H1B's to stay competitive, we need Americans getting spun up on tech and get into the industry. #learntocode.
Realistically, for the new guys, working one job for a year or two to really get comfortable before going for Job #2 is probably the best route. But, even that one job is probably going to be pretty high-paying, so it's not a bad deal.
Long story short, if you don't think you have the technical chops to job stack, come on in and we'll get you spun up. If you are already technically proficient, come network with the boys and let's get you that second job (or third or whatever).
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I was skeptical of the Tortuga Society at first. I toyed with the idea of joining for months, but eventually I pulled the trigger, and it has been tremendously worthwhile. The Tortuga Society has improved my life and career prospects in numerous ways, and I will always have the Captain and my fellow Tortugans to thank from here on out.
Before joining Tortuga, I was not sure where I was heading career-wise. Job-stacking seemed weird and scammy (even though it isn't), but I figured that the guys in the group could help me develop skills that would help me on my professional journey. I was completely lacking technical skills before I joined the Society, but now I am confident in many new programming abilities. At my job, I have gone from "the new guy" to "the computer guy" and have been able to revolutionize and improve various critical systems.
…and I have gotten a raise for it, which more than pays for the Tortuga entry fee.
The Tortuga Codex and curriculum put together by Walt, Theon, and Sesped (gone on a digital fast 😢) helped me to boost my skills considerably within the span of months. I can now handle data and complex information sets in ways that I did not even know before. The rest of the members provide loads of support at the drop of a hat, willing to give me tips on my learning process and workflows whenever I need, just because they are part of the society too.
Now, I am learning new technical skills nonstop, and leveraging the ability to quickly understand new concepts to get a leg up in every project I am involved in. I am not job-stacking or pulling in some crazy salary like the guys on r/overemployed, but the skills and support I gained from the Tortuga Society have tangibly improved my life by getting me a raise and expanding my career prospects
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In my own way, I've job stacked for my entire career as an attorney thus far—if you can call reselling on eBay with the occasional attorney gig on the side job stacking, that is. But when I saw what Walt and the boys over at The Tortuga Society were making with 2 or even 3+ full time jobs, it was clear these guys were next level. It seemed financially irresponsible to not try and make more money if possible. After all, I have a family to provide for. And debt—how could I ever forget about the debt.
The issue of course (as it often is) is that I am an attorney rather than a data analyst that can bag a glorified email job making graphics to show Boomer bosses how stupidly they’re spending their money. I wasn’t sure job stacking was possible for me aside from maybe finding some teaching gig.
“But ringleader, if you’re an attorney why would you ever need to job stack? Didn’t you make an easy 6 figs right out of law school?”
No. And believe it or not, five years in, and I still don’t! Unless you’re slaving away 80+ hours a week at some BigLaw firm, most attorneys in my experience bracket make under $100k after taxes in small town America. But the fact that attorney work is so different from data analysis or other STEM professions did not deter me from joining Tortuga to learn whatever I could about the process.
And learn I have. These boys are machines. Simply being privy to the robust daily conversations lit a fire under me to find a new way to supplement my income.
And I’m happy to report that I’ve now secured a contract position that provides an effective 50% pay raise to my current salary.
Without The Tortuga Society, I don’t think I would have pursued my options as aggressively, if I ever did at all!
Long live Tortuga!
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I hired a perfect fit for Sherwood Fellows through Walt’s community.
I was expecting to achieve significant pillage from our enemies, but honestly the hardest thing has been to hold the autist back from overdoing it. I must remind him regularly to take stock of his victories, drink heavily, sing heartily, otherwise it’s just pillage all the time.
The candidate was perfectly values aligned, a great culture fit, and had the exact skillset we've been looking for.
Timbers (pseudonym for a dude on here w/ several hundred subs) :
I joined Tortuga because I was seeking a community of like-minded guys who want to make money and push the culture in a right-wing direction.
Tortuga is even better than I had hoped. It's a network of driven, competent, very smart guys. If you want to stack jobs and make bank, Tortuga's resume services and repository of stackable job listings will get you there. Tortuga has also helped me grow my Substack.
Now I have a new project: I'm fleshing out an ingenious (if I do say so myself) business idea that will let us pillage Corporate America's gold. Thanks to Tortuga, I have mentors with extensive experience in the management consulting world who are helping me to turn my business idea into a reality.
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I came to this group from an entrepreneurial background - built and sold a number of companies with eight and nine digit exits over the years, and learned a lot both from doing so and from the firms I joined along the way. Ground-up tech plays, business turnarounds, even a hedge fund - can't literally say I've seen it all, but I've got a good idea what works at this point, and it's almost always foundational to have a capable team.
What's impressed me most about Tortuga thus far - as much as the group is still taking form - is how well everyone seems to be working towards the shared ethos. There hasn't been the traditional factionalism; there hasn't been as much infighting or social positioning as usually occurs. This group has been by and large pretty professional.
Given that everyone involved self-selected in as willing to work hard to get ahead, it shouldn't be any surprise that the Tortuga Society is a group with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. More than just attitude though, there's an excellent willingness to recognize the big picture and reorient around what actually matters rather than fixate on minutiae. Several excellent ideas have already come out of the team, and I think some of them will have legs enough to mint new fortunes in the next couple years - I'm very interested to see what else develops as this group continues to grow and collaborate.
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I joined Tortuga shortly after it started to search for additional work.
They have nice resources, such as a board full of job listings with relevant information, advice for applying, resume templates, and some technical tutorials.
I generally don't like groupchats but Tortuga has a nice chat; a mix of messing around and more serious conversation.
I would recommend them to anybody who is searching for work in the finance or tech sectors or even just looking for a right wing high human capital community
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How a Sensitive Young Man Joined an E-Pirate Crew
I'm a recent humanities graduate with no STEM training and the tech competence of a Midwestern Boomer. When I first asked Walt if I should join the society, he cautioned me that Tortuga was more geared toward STEM types. I decided to dive in anyway because I see this group going places, and $200 is a relatively small investment.
Every attempt to organize a group of people to the right of the average MAGA voter ends in one of three ways: FBI infiltration, a terrorist attack, or a retard rally. These outcomes are inevitable, dictated by the goals these groups pursue and the types of people they attract. Most right-wing groups have some grandiose vision of "taking back the country" from the Deep State, the Jews, or some other nebulous enemy. To achieve this, they want a revolution. The kind of person drawn to such a group is basically just a slightly more radical version of your typical conservative chud.
But when I read through Tortuga’s purpose and mission statement—getting right-wingers rich—I saw something practical and actually useful for a lot of high-human-capital guys. Since joining, I’d say the benefits I've gained fall into three main categories: self-improvement, community, and viable skills.
Self-Improvement
When it comes to self-improvement, Tortuga offers resume assistance and interview prep to help you land a high-paying job. Additionally, there are dedicated chats on health and fitness to improve your body and discussions on art and culture to sharpen your mind. But the best way to improve yourself is by having people who support and challenge you.
"Steel sharpens steel," as the old saying goes, and the metal at Tortuga is top of the line. I run a Substack account called
, and about a month ago, I published my first article. The initial draft was over 5,000 words, and my fellow Tortugans took time out of their day to read it and give me feedback. By the time I rewrote it, I had significantly revised the subject matter and completely restructured my thesis.Community
Despite being raised in a center-right household and being on the far right since I was 12, I’ve never really fit in with conservatives. I don’t like football, hunting, or small towns in the middle of nowhere. I’m not religious, and most importantly, I’m not big on intuitive thinking (common-sense arguments) or just accepting things as they are. Basically, I have no interest in "conserving" anything as my primary political objective.
This makes it really hard to find like-minded individuals in the political space. If you’re not a grug-brained good old boy who thinks thinking and art are for fags, you won’t find many friends in the conservative base. On the other hand, the second you step into any space that’s media-savvy or has a more subjective view of morality, everyone literally is a fag, and if you're to the right of Jeb Bush, they’ll call you an evil Nazi.
If you’re right-wing but a bit more artsy, into tech, drawn to esoteric politics and philosophy, or just have a perspective outside the normie conservative/chud far-rightist mold, Tortuga is a great place to meet individuals with a similar temperament and outlook.
The Tortuga crew is diverse (in a good way)—tech-savvy, high-IQ, high-openness, and hyper-agentic.
Valuable Skills
Tortuga offers a litany of instructional material on SQL, coding, and AI. I found this incredibly useful, as it covered things my own certification in data analytics neglected. Even if I were to stop now and never take a job in data, I’d still be happy with the skills I’ve learned and their applicability elsewhere.
Even if you’re not interested in data, data is very interested in you. We live in a world increasingly permeated by information, and that information is more valuable than gold. I’ve worked in politics since boyhood and throughout my adult life, and I can tell you firsthand—data and politics are inseparable. But that’s true for every industry.
I don’t care if your career is ditch-digging—someone wants to graph the volume and depth of your ditches on an Excel spreadsheet. Regardless of what field you’re in, having skills in coding, data, and AI always looks good on a resume and will be essential to avoiding replacement by a machine.
Conclusion
I'm about five months into my Tortuga subscription, and I have to say—it’s the best $200 I’ve ever spent. I’ve learned a lot, improved my skills, and in general, come out the other end a more competent adult.
A lot of Zoomers suffer from a drawn-out adolescence that lasts into their late 20s or even early 30s. I think groups like this are essential to breaking them out of it. I can't thank the W-Man and his crew enough for starting and maintaining this group, and I look forward to seeing it prosper.
21yo Zoomette intern I mentioned in this post :
I originally joined Tortuga because Noah Revoy had spoken to me about how it was a group for job stacking, and I am interested in finding more lucrative ways to make money than a singular white collar job.
As I have been building up skills to be able to secure other long-term employment (or likely to build my own business), Walt and a few other individuals have paid me to help them with some simple backend 'secretarial' work, which has been helping me significantly with some of my early financial goals.:
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By the grace of Substack’s algorithm, I first came across Walt Bismarck in the summer of 2024. Real talk—my first reaction was, "Look at this clown lolll."Why would I take some autistic racist larping as a pirate seriously? I came to Substack looking for refuge from the cesspool of social media, and on the surface, Walt embodied some of its worst aspects. Plus, as a budding geopolitical analyst, I had already moved past OSINT Twitter and was looking for higher-level discourse. Substack delivered, feeding me all kinds of well-written essays on politics, history, and social commentary. So, every time Walt popped up on my feed, I kept scrolling. This dude and his Tortuga group couldn’t have anything of value for me, right?
Turns out, I judged too soon. Walt’s article, The United States Needs a New Capital was the first to catch my eye, and after reading more of his work I had to admit—this guy could write. He was entertaining, blunt, and willing to “go there.”
My first impression of him as a weird racist white boy held up, but damn, was his work engaging. After a few months of observing Walt and Tortuga, I realized that despite not fitting the typical member mold (I’m Black, if you haven’t figured that out by now), I had common cause with the underlying mission of Tortuga.
This mission is not some money-grubbing scheme—though, securing the bag is a cheat code that unlocks many of life’s joys. What intrigued me was their take on job stacking—not just as a hustle, but as a launchpad for bigger, coordinated efforts. Though the concept of job stacking is not unique to Tortuga (There’s a prominent subreddit dedicated to this), Tortuga’s approach resonated with me. So, I joined up. And even with half-assed effort, within a few months, I landed a second remote gig in a niche industry—thanks in large part to several major assists from the other members of Tortuga.
The extra income that’ll soon be rolling in is nice, but what really sold me on Tortuga is the pirate mindset the group embodies. It’s not about pillaging—it’s about rejecting the bullshit rules designed to keep you in check. That’s the real value Tortuga can offer you: freedom. Whatever that looks like for you, the Tortuga crew help get you going in the right direction. And yeah, it’s a group built specifically to benefit White men, but if you have agency, a thick skin, and an open mind, you can still gain from what’s offered here. If you're still skeptical, talk to Walt yourself—he'll tell you straight if it's a good fit. And if it’s not? No harm done. He even offers a money-back guarantee, so you’ve got nothing to lose.
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For some time, I have examined parallel societies in the abstract, and cited examples which seemed to me effective. However, it is fortunate that I have now found a more concrete example in the Tortuga Society. This is at present an organization for building wealth through working multiple jobs remotely. Here I will briefly outline what aspects of Tortuga I have found helpful, and how men with traditional values can benefit from this organization.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Tortuga for traditionalists is that it creates a path towards supporting a family on one income. Intelligent ambitious young men coming from middle class backgrounds are often unaware of how the job market functions. This problem is especially pronounced for those coming from conformist cultures, such as Midwestern state schools. They study hard in college but end up working for five figure salaries in cube farms for the rest of their natural lives, never reaching their full potential. Many remain unable to support a family with a single income. Few realize that remote work exists, let alone the possibility of working multiple jobs concurrently. Information regarding pertinent aspects of the job market exists here that is unobtainable anywhere else. Tortuga solves this problem by allowing recent graduates to discuss these issues with experienced remote workers.
As the economic heft of Tortuga grows, the practice of jobstacking could become a very effective way of transferring funds from the monoculture to parallel societies. The Tortugans are the most enterprising group of men I have yet encountered. I have found Tortuga a great place to discuss ideas for new businesses. For this reason it is a potential foundation for a distributed economy. This aspect of Tortuga will allow it to evolve beyond job stacking into an incubator for novel institutions.
Great nations are frequently built on the bedrock of secret societies. Many such examples abound throughout history, from the Hansa to the Sons of Liberty. These organizations often provide a place for the leading lights of civilization to discuss intellectual as well as business matters. Tortuga also functions as an Academy in the original Greek sense of the word, serving as the platform for much fruitful intellectual discussion. I predict that the future of Tortuga will largely be as a networking organization of the leading citizens of Free Cantons. For these reasons, Tortuga may well open the next chapter in Western civilization.
N of 1 :
Not all that long ago I was down and out. I had thrown away the perfect job in data analysis I was working in my late twenties to move to the big city for a better dating scene. With dating I had some success, but I had a devil of a time finding another job in data. After moving to New Hampshire as a participant in the Free State Project I spent years working in factories and warehouses. I also had several temporary office jobs I got fired from. When I discovered the Tortuga Society I was a struggling financial advisor trying to build a book of business through corporate cold calling. I wanted out.
One day I saw Natural Law Institute fellow Noah Revoy tweet about a contact of his who was running a group focusing on job stacking. Although it had the optics of a get-rich-quick scheme and the one-time admittance fee was steep—especially for someone as impecunious as I was—I was willing to take a chance because the society had been recommended by someone I trusted.
When I entered the group I was immediately impressed by the immensely practical advice from “Captain” Walt I received on how to fortify my resume and prepare for interviews. I was also thoroughly impressed by the professional and intellectual caliber of the group. Best of all, however, was the eagerness of the other members to help one another achieve their professional goals. On multiple occasions other members reached out to me with advice that I had not even asked for explicitly but still found quite helpful. It was thanks to the advice of another member that I changed my job hunting strategy to one that would maximize my chances of getting a better job. This in combination with a software tool developed by another member, I was able to get multiple interviews and regain a position in data analysis, with an awesome company as well.
As you can probably tell from my backstory I'm not the most career-oriented person; and my biggest passion in life is right-wing libertarian political activism. As a political activist, however, I recognize that while money is not a determinate of political power, it is a prerequisite for it, so those who join Tortuga primarily for its ideological bent will become much more effective as activists if they follow the society's program. The sheer energy, ambition, creativity, and overall incandescence of the society has inspired me incredibly; because I took the plunge into a pirate's life with Tortuga, I have never been more optimistic about both my professional and political future than I am now.
And that’s a wrap.
At this point I’ve proven all I need to and will no longer provide a whiff of oxygen to the Haters and Losers who persist in branding Tortuga a scam. This skepticism was valid last June, understandable in August, maybe even plausible as late as December… but at this point I’ve produced such overwhelming evidence that Tortuga is a legitimate professional fraternity and not some retarded cynical Get Rich Quick Scheme that I’ve no choice but to view any remaining naysayers as operating entirely in bad faith.
Henceforth these libelous bilge rats will either get a block or a strongly-worded letter from a nice Jewish boy on Cap’n Walt’s retainer. Because at this point it’s not just my money on the line—I have a partner with real skin in the game, plus 130 good men relying on me to defend the Society’s honor and advance our business interests.
And that shit matters to me, because Tortuga is my tribe now. Every one of our members invested his time and faith and a decent chunk of change in my ability to lead us all to glory and plunder, and I don’t intend to let my boys down. That’s why I got clean, and it’s why I’ve chartered an Engagement Cartel to secure my ability to promote our interests while insulating Our Guys from algorithmic cockblocking.
Am I simply doing this to feel like a big cheese and secure myself some delicious narcissistic supply? If so I really made the wrong fucking choice, because that sort of thing was infinitely easier to come by when I was pulling in $450k / year stacking three faggoty spreadsheet jobs. It’s ludicrously easy to coast as King Narc when you’re flying in new art hoes from SeekingArrangement every other weekend and having restaurant food delivered to the step of your high rise several times a day. It’s just that after a while this lifestyle begins to feel like eating nothing but cotton candy—soon your belly craves real sustenance, and before you know it all your teeth are falling out. Whereas starting a business, taking charge of your destiny, becoming a real leader… brother, that’s filet mignon, and no craving for cheap carbs can ever degrade its worth.
So Captain Walt will offer one last testimonial, and attest that this is what Tortuga gave me: a chance to become a Serious Person—The Man Who Delivers The Goods.
And that, incidentally, is my long-term goal for everyone in the Society, because job stacking very clearly won’t be around forever. Over the coming years I expect big corpos to close most of the loopholes we’re actively exploiting while eliminating the sinecures / redundancies / bullshit jobs that facilitated the postwar era’s insane elite overproduction by serving as functional UBIs for the professional-managerial class.
And no, that isn’t just Walt Bismarck talking out of his ass. As my civicminded guncle
pointed out last August in a remarkably nuanced assessment of Tortuga, the smart money has already begun pricing this in:My hypothesis is that much of this is symptomatic of structural changes in the economy. Job-stacking can be seen as an awkward coping mechanism as the labor market shifts from 20th-century at-will employment to the kind of gig-workforce market LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman says is emerging.
In case you missed it, Hoffman recently predicted that the conventional 9-to-5 job will be obsolete by 2034 (full video here). He says AI will accelerate a paradigm shift in the workforce where workers juggle multiple contracts and jobs in a more flexible but less secure manner. His prediction sounds a lot like job-stacking writ large. Whether this is dystopian or a good thing is a topic for a separate discussion — as a teaser, imagine an era where a single person can create a unicorn company.
In the medium term you can expect the labor market to grow insanely asymmetrical as a result of this, and far more quickly than anyone is prepared to handle. W2 jobs will fall out of favor among the Pareto-distributed 10x Engineer types who generate real value, and it will soon become commonplace for some random 160 IQ autiste in his early 20s to invent an AI framework that shreds an industry’s workforce and turns him into a centimillionaire overnight. This will naturally cause deep social unrest as displaced elites find themselves without any useful skills and desperately try to eke out a niche as a grifter / prostitute / content farmer, with the ones too ugly or uncharismatic to succeed becoming revolutionaries who’ll ultimately need to be liquidated.
But in the very long run—think 30 to 40 years—life will return to being decently pleasant and stable (if insipidly painless) for everyone who makes it through this filter and we approach functional post-scarcity. I anticipate a social order wherein everyone is on a UBI and the great mass of Dopamine Cows are ruled by an elite cadre of artists and hetaira, with cells of luddite pastoralists pursuing a parallel existence in the far hinterlands. Ideally we’ll start to colonize the galaxy before this arrangement causes us to speciate too overtly… but that’s a topic for another essay.
The point is I aim to use Tortuga to encourage hustling and entrepreneurialism in my men such that in five years every one of them runs his own consultancy and is equipped to traverse the Age of Asymmetry from a position of strength and abundance.
Job stacking is a fantastic way to rapidly upskill, amass startup capital, and form a single-income family years ahead of schedule. But it oughtn’t be the terminal goal—consider even Henry Morgan turned his plunder to plantations at the first opportunity before parlaying the influence this brought him into becoming Governor of Jamaica. As it stands Corporate America is every bit as decadent and sclerotic as the Spanish Empire circa 1600, but eventually the Royal Navy will sweep the seas of pirates, and by that point I aim for every Tortugan to have fashioned himself a firm protective shell befitting that august creature from which we take our name.
And then the best of us will scale that shell into a castle—a place where our friends and allies can seek refuge; through which we can dispense largesse and patronage to likeminded artists and scholars; and from which we’re able to project genuine power.
So there’s my fuckin’ sales pitch.
If you enjoyed it come join our ranks and give Cap’n Wally your shekels.
As stated before I’m offering full refunds and absolute transparency, so if you want to join us today or tomorrow or next week there’s zero risk and we’re elated to have you.
Elsewise I’ll see you gents midyear once I double the entry fee to $1000.
assuming it’s requested within 30 days of purchase
That second testimonial was touching
“W2 jobs will fall out of favor among the Pareto-distributed 10x Engineer types who generate real value, and it will soon become commonplace for some random 160 IQ autiste in his early 20s to invent an AI framework that shreds an industry’s workforce and turns him into a centimillionaire overnight”
Absolute truth