# vinay gupta | be you. (part 8 of 8)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [172], part 8 of 8. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages.

## Where this source sits

- Source: document (Web page), 2014-05-22 (publication data), https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/. Text: document text
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Third-party digest of his talks; index into the plan's ideas.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut.
  - Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011): Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect.
  - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine)
  - Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): Essay drafted live in public: smart contracts as capitalism's calculus, with richer instruments than cash... (suggested by machine)
  - The Future of Stuff (2020): Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things. (suggested by machine)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy.
  - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it.
  - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction.
  - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community.
  - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum.
  - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans.
- Ideas developed here: 30-year plan (Hexayurt; target revised upward, now 300 million)
- Topics: Tweets & captured social feeds (39%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Leashless (238 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 1 undated); programmer capitalism (4 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); basic income (11 here; 21 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); interoperability (9 here; 17 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); ecocide (4 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); basic needs (8 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); contracts (49 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated); equity crowdfunding (7 here; 14 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); smart contracts (31 here; 110 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Mother of Hydrogen (4 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2012)
- The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Mattereum; smart contracts; tokenization; Silicon Valley; Shatner; ICO; Internet of Agreements; cypherpunk; collectibles; DAO
- Importance: core-text score 0.26 (1.00 is the top), number 307 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [752] [Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md): same career work: Hexayurt
  - [711] [Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md): same career work: Hexayurt
- On the same works, just before: [698] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - End Homelessness |... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/698.md); [700] [Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/700.md); [316] [Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md)
- On the same works, just after: [73] [A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine | The... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md); [315] [Three Bureaucracies of Sharing: Owners, Managers and... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/315.md); [314] [EMF2014 hexayurt talk Hexayurts, Distributed... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md)

## Reading it

Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it.

Cite as: vinay gupta | be you., document, 2014-05-22, https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [172], https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md.

## Passages, part 8 of 8
[passage 92](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) practice then poured onto the internet in the form of work that was done to org docs and pre standards for things like search data when we moved onto the web.. that bedrock of librarianship and all the statistical modeling that was done on info as we are doing w internet search.. all of that stuff is why we don’t consider info to be scarce anymore.. anybody over age of 35 has an idea of what info scarcity is like when you had a question.. and parents didn’t know answer and didn’t have a book.. so..we’re in a period where we’ve got an enormous scarcity of physical things.. but we have managed over about 30 yrs to get rid of info scarcity.. we did it thru a range of things.. started w text, then images, then sound, then short films then long films.. then we did radio.. for all intents and purposes.. we went category by category.. eradicating info scarcity 5 min – so the next thing on the internets list of things to do.. notice i say internet and not the blockchain.. is to do the same .. for scarcity of physical goods.. does anybody feel like they own too much stuff and it’s poorly organized 6 min – we’ve poured into investment and production.. the consumption and waste haven’t been touched at all in order to sell something.. you have to go thru all the process of what the thing is.. why aren’t ‘selling/buying’ things .. irrelevants this is happening because we don’t have stable identities for physical things to me.. thinking we need identity .. part of the problem 7 min – as soon as you buy something.. it loses it’s value.. what that’s creating is an enormous mismatch between the production systems and the consumption systems..an enormous river of goods being trashed that are perfectly useful if we could only id what we want.. and an enormous loss of money to consumers.. because everybody is in a position that the things that we want.. typically last longer than our desire for them the mismatch we need to focus on .. first.. is what we really need/want.. ie: maté basic needs 8 min – ie: fashions change and you want to get rid of it.. but you can’t get rid of it unless you take a 50% loss or.. let go of money (any form of measuring / accounting ) your choices are: store in back of closet; give to a charity shop; or sell it on ebay.. but even selling on ebay requires a bunch of labor 9 min – why is anything going to a landfill when there are billions of people going without that is true.. but again.. and specific to climate.. we don’t need most of the things in the landfill in the first place and the answer is.. we throw away all the info.. so the objects aren’t attached to their stories.. can’t do search.. can’t find market places for these things..

[passage 93](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) landfill when there are billions of people going without that is true.. but again.. and specific to climate.. we don’t need most of the things in the landfill in the first place and the answer is.. we throw away all the info.. so the objects aren’t attached to their stories.. can’t do search.. can’t find market places for these things.. * and if we fix that.. we could keep most of the structure of the consumer society going .. where goods are still available for purchase and you can do what you like with them.. as long as they go directly to an efficient secondary market.. so the goods are in use by some human being right to the end of their (goods?) life *wow.. death wish the actual environmental impact of buying something.. is divided by all the people that subsequently use it.. so what this provides is a possible avenue for us to radically cut our environ impact and the same time we rapidly increase our quality of life not radical/rapid enough.. and still perpetuating that cancer 10 min – that creates the necessary econ incentives to do quality manufacturing of long life durable goods.. collective custodianship.. to me.. thinking we need incentives.. esp econ incentive.. is a red flag we’re doing it wrong so that’s what i think we should be working on in the blockchain space.. we need something that is the equivalent of total quality control to truly revolutionize mass production.. what i think we should be working on: hlb via 2 convers that io dance .. as the day ..[aka: not part\ial .. for (blank)’s sake ...].. a nother way we need something that is the equivalent of total quality control to truly revolutionize mass production.. t rather .. we need to let go of control.. to truly experience ie: revolution of everyday life .. getting us back to an undisturbed ecosystem we need an equivalent structure for consumption and waste management .. and we need it now as a critical part of meeting the un’s sustainable developments.. t rather.. we need a structure for augmenting our interconnectedness .. otherwise we’re still spinning our wheels on irrelevants and we need *it now.. as a critical part of getting to the energy of the energy of 9b alive people.. *ie: 2 convers as infra structure __________ vinay on cities ____________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 7:03 PM on Mon, Nov 18, 2019: “Complex systems behave unpredictably.” “Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior.” We know the lessons. We just don’t want to accept them: if you want control, you *have to* radically reduce system complexity. There’s just no way around this https://t.co/yKUYlQxWKc ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1196609809967132672?s=03 ) 2 convers ations as infra structure let go ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 1:19 PM on Sat, Jan 25, 2020: An awful lot of people really enjoyed this thread about #badthink – a new way of looking at the roots of human cruelty and short sightedness

[passage 94](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) reduce system complexity. There’s just no way around this https://t.co/yKUYlQxWKc ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1196609809967132672?s=03 ) 2 convers ations as infra structure let go ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 1:19 PM on Sat, Jan 25, 2020: An awful lot of people really enjoyed this thread about #badthink – a new way of looking at the roots of human cruelty and short sightedness as results an evolutionary heritage that we can overcome by the right kind of education and training. Just as civilization became literate ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1221165620047306752?s=03 ) rather.. by letting go of ed and train ing to fix it we need to tell the truth rather.. we need time/space to listen .. for what is already there.. _____________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 10:40 PM – 7 Mar 2020 : Fuck it, I’m doing flu. VCs! Two of the three @mattereum core team have significant infectious disease epidemiology experience. I’m a hardened pandemic strategist. Our company will survive this, and likely find new markets along the way. Our CSR will be teaching infection ctrl ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1236527195738247168?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 10:43 PM – 7 Mar 2020 : I need four more pairs of hands to accelerate the company, and grow us enough that I can put significant personal effort into saving some lives and getting the https://t.co/Oxq0JasIAs work into the hands of more people who are facing the challenges that corona virus presents. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1236527891451711488?s=17 ) ___________ vinay on rights of children ___________ *Which* human cultural traits are compatible with survival, and how do we promote those traits, and destroy the traits which threaten all life on Earth? That’s the question I should have been asking: how do we purge culture so we are no longer trapped in a global suicide cult? https://t.co/Cul3cU8u9K 1\ authenticity 2\ attachment ( maté basic needs ) via 2 convers as infra @leashless @davebryand Personal “transformation” tends to get co-opted by our deep civ norms and most transf work fails to take this into account. To go deeper than the civ operating system and stay there is the type of work I’m talking about. Seems very rare to find people actually doing that. Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nclaurence/status/1278521186217910272 begs a means/mech with a detox embed.. to ongoingly get/keep us in a humane os ie: cure ios city __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 11:16 PM on Fri, Jul 03, 2020: I can’t think of a single globally dominant cultural idea which isn’t based on lies by the time it gets to implementation. Close candidates: scientific method, free press, universal franchise for voting. Even great ideals are massively attacked and subverted. The rest is worse. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1279282992985374720?s=0 3 ) feedback loop needs to be based on listening deeper .. not on responding/conforming (rna-ing) ie: 2 convers as infra detox humanity needs: daily reset – groundhog day ness art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as re\set .. to fittingness / undisturbed ecosystem we need to let/expect our iterations to randomly change we’re not machines/machine-like ___________ There is a

[passage 95](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) ) feedback loop needs to be based on listening deeper .. not on responding/conforming (rna-ing) ie: 2 convers as infra detox humanity needs: daily reset – groundhog day ness art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as re\set .. to fittingness / undisturbed ecosystem we need to let/expect our iterations to randomly change we’re not machines/machine-like ___________ There is a an ethical, virtuous economy hiding inside of our corrupted slavery-and-ecocide economy. To reach it we need fairly strong guarantees of safety (basic income?) so we don’t slaughter each other to protect our (future) kids. The economy of virtue is small, but also huge https://t.co/xxBUMXAKBq Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1288148479668301826 imagine if we just focused on listening to the itch-in-8b-souls .. first thing.. everyday.. and used that data to augment our interconnectedness .. we might just get to a more antifragility .. best safety/protection.. if we go this deep ____________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 1:16 PM on Tue, Jul 28, 2020: After only 20 years, the mass media is now asking the same question that prompted me to start the Hexayurt Project. Let me tell you, living in the future is so frustrating at times. So frustrating. This is what the hexayurt is for. Handling this problem. https://t.co/N9voGRj5Vd ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1288191582995460096?s=03 ) resonating.. but asking .. what could everyone do/be.. this is what cure ios city is for ____________ Is this the “genius of capitalism” in progress, or is this just wasting everybody’s time? Compare https://t.co/nqzrpso3gE to https://t.co/RQ23brJHLP Do we just manufacture every variation and let “the market” sort it out *forever* or does (for example) AI come in and organize? Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1293092743984680960 what we need is an infra/org to get us back/to knowing what enough is I am impatient to redesign the material layer of the world into something which produces happiness not just for this generation, but for every generation subsequently. Poor people *can* own great things: just look at how amazing cheap android phones are these days, or e-bikes. Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1293099166982459393 webfoundation just tweeting that 2.5 million can’t afford devices New research from @A4A_Internet looks at the price and affordability of smartphones across 70 countries. They found devices are too expensive for nearly 2.5 billion people — and it’s keeping them offline. https://t.co/WGf9tfkIYH Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/webfoundation/status/1293111677802541056 Are we ready to actually solve some shit here? I’ve been ready for years. Covid and the American collapse were inevitable. Now we just have to push as hard as we can, while the old order is in trouble, to fix everything within reach. The material base layer is in deep trouble. Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1293118158304358401 material base layer won’t be fixed (legit addressed) until people are free enough to grok enough ness I need to write a piece or record a couple of podcasts on the spiritual aspects of design (i.e. right action) in a starving, boiling, warring world. We need proper spiritual attention on the *things* and that inattention is what multiplies into ecocide and climate change. https://t.co/I4dU41sbMK Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1293119295925497862

[passage 96](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) addressed) until people are free enough to grok enough ness I need to write a piece or record a couple of podcasts on the spiritual aspects of design (i.e. right action) in a starving, boiling, warring world. We need proper spiritual attention on the *things* and that inattention is what multiplies into ecocide and climate change. https://t.co/I4dU41sbMK Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1293119295925497862 if we really want to fix things.. need to let go of writing/ telling et al and.. deeper than ‘things’.. we need a refocus on itch-in-the-soul .. a means to undo our hierarchical listening (get back/to enough ness) ie: 2 convers as infra ___________ Mattereum CEO Vinay Gupta’s @leashless new book ‘The Future of Stuff’ published by @unbounders is avaialble to order! UK: https://t.co/hNed5tUTl7 US: https://t.co/dkcBxfr6MV https://t.co/ZKSYPdLHvs Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mattereum/status/1322138313864679425 not at library/prospector.. like jason’s and yanis’s.. probably won’t get to read __________ fb reply to michel – when asked if he has a special focus now: I’m convinced that if I don’t claw my way into a very strong financial position, strong enough to simply pay people to implement my vision, nothing is going to happen and I’ll die penniless like Robert Anton Wilson, who’s life’s work was worth 23 dollars each. Elon Musk was right, and I was wrong. So now I’m fully participating in capitalism, because this stuff is not going to get done unless I am in charge: anarchists, communitarians, charities, State and military all had a chance to domicile my work, and nobody had the vision and fortitude to do it. So now I’m left at 50 in empire building mode. A bit late to start, but I picked fertile ground. Brutal. And when I say “money” I’m talking about *spending* a couple of hundred million dollars a year through the critical climate refugee period – maybe 1% or more of global spending on refugee management – to show the rest of the world how to turn their money into saved lives effectively. Make no small plans. ___________ oh my. Agreed. I’ll go further. If you have an established relationship with him, I will not work with you. I’ve already passed on podcasts for this reason and will do so across the board. Very bad guy. https://t.co/GA673q8NWp Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jgreenhall/status/1450912746732544001 linked to thread that starts this way (and has vinay interacting with it – defending himself): Alright I have waited long enough for journalists to do their job: I am done @leashless, stay away from women I have heard from so many in our community—including one who is now dead—that you are absolutely horrendous behind closed doors You should not be invited to speak ever https://t.co/c3eylgoNTj Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1450374546234626048 __________ twitter convo between cory doctorow and vinay gupta @leashless @VladZamfir @mattereum I wish you all the luck in the world with your project. It sounds genuinely laudable. I will continue to ask the central question about it: “ Does the method for incentivizing participation undermine the social factors that will determine its success ?” Original

[passage 97](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) https://t.co/c3eylgoNTj Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1450374546234626048 __________ twitter convo between cory doctorow and vinay gupta @leashless @VladZamfir @mattereum I wish you all the luck in the world with your project. It sounds genuinely laudable. I will continue to ask the central question about it: “ Does the method for incentivizing participation undermine the social factors that will determine its success ?” Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1493604665375825931 perhaps thinking we need incentives is a red flag ..(to undermining ness) need: means to undo our hierarchical listening so we can org around legit needs @doctorow @VladZamfir @mattereum @avalancheavax Getting rid of oligarchy while leaving behind a functional society is extremely difficult, dangerous, and unpredictable work . It’s far harder than replacing one oligarchy with another, which *functionally speaking* is what the blockchain is doing right now: “throw the bums out.” Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1493610747208818695 not difficult.. we just aren’t listening deep enough to see it predictable is the dangerous thing ____________ ___________ ___________ ________ Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... imagine if we .. [note: this site is part of an ongoing experiment , ie: modeling hosting-life-bits ness (output ness) using my ( never just me ) brain/ idio-jargon/ self-talk as data] doing detox (self-talk).. Blog at WordPress.com. Mid Mo Design. Privacy be you. Copy shortlink Manage subscriptions Sign up Log in Report this content Loading Comments... %d

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End of [172] vinay gupta | be you., part 8 of 8. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: next on the same works, [73](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md) A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine | The... (2014); the most closely related, [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.