# Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [369]. 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/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2008-10-07 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): The first layer of the SCIM backbone: the six individual needs every relief and Harappa design must meet. - Career works it belongs to: - Six ways people die (2008): Framework: people die of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, illness or injury, so infrastructure has to answer... - Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (2008): Talk: half of all deaths are deaths from poverty, and open technology built household by household can... (suggested by machine) - Hope for the World (2009): Talk at an emergency housing workshop in Sweden: disaster relief and development aid are one problem, and... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - Ideas developed here: SCIM / six ways to die - Topics: disaster / refugee / food (60%); Burning Man shelter building (20%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: clean water (2 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); supply chains (2 here; 59 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); Six Ways To Die (1 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 3 undated); Six ways (1 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 5 undated); Red Cross (1 here; 36 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); too cold (1 here; 40 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 7 undated); too hot (1 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 6 undated); markets (2 here; 159 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 6 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): too hot - Importance: core-text score 0.54 (1.00 is the top), number 60 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [710] [TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md): same career work: Six ways people die - [335] [STAR-TIDES briefing from Vinay Gupta (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/335.md): same career work: Six ways people die - On the same works, just before: [238] [Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (Reykjavik Digital... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/238.md); [67] [Rough video from my talk in Iceland | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/67.md); [63] [Health insurance for $10 per year using the network |... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md) - On the same works, just after: [58] [Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md); [27] [Index of /hope_for_the_world (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/27.md); [64] [Hope for the World – my talk from the Emergency Housing... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/64.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: Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die, video, 2008-10-07, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [369], https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=0s) this is what we call six ways to die and basically uh your six faces out where you're too hot you're too cold um you have hunger and fundamentally if you don't die of one of those causes you're not gonna be dying then um you know hot and cold we typically manage with clothing and shelter and a few other things along those lines hunger and thirst we have supply chains that bring us water and food and for illness and injury fundamentally what we have is hospitals and security services so this is kind of um shelter this is supply this is safety and this tripod of shelter is basically the the system which collapses in disasters so shelter is typically hard physical assets i mean to some extent it's things like clothes but fundamentally what stops us doing from heat and cold most of the time is you know hard what do they call supply on the other hand is processes so supply is this continual process that generates clean water it's this continual process that generates food around you and those are continuous ongoing running transactions it's kind of metabolism and this is of course the tricky thing to maintain in disasters right something terrible happens and it's not the first three weeks that you have the problem well you know it's the first three weeks you have an immediate problem but then when everybody leaves and the cameras have gone somewhere else then the supply process runs out and people are left just screaming and then safety is typically human services oriented right by and large our resistance to illness and our resistance to injury comes from things like hospitals and doctors and there are protective infrastructures right feels like a clean water supply will protect you from all kinds of illness but if something goes wrong it's fundamentally hospitals doctors police armies and so on they're coming to deal with your problem [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=150s) so this thing a physical plan supply chains or supply metabolism and support staff is how we manage to stay alive in the developed world we've got very very good systems in each of these areas and as a result everything pretty much works so the second part of this is that you have concentric rings of [2:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=178s) supply so for example if you think about um food if you think of this ring as being household and then here you've got a town and then out here you've got a region and then out here you've got country of the world so the further you go from the individual the further you go out kind of not just in distance but also across uh jurisdictional space um if you're a westerner typically this you have very little food storage at home usually you know maybe two or three days worth of food storage then a town level you have stores which have maybe a week's worth of food storage and some warehousing and then there's a trucking fleet which moves things backwards and forwards from the global food markets which in this case happened to the poor down the line so what you have is this notion that your infrastructure is you know you've got a little bit here you've got a whole bunch of stuff at the time level and then you've got most of the actual food heavy lifting is done by these global markets in this global distribution network um on the other hand if you're one of these backyard farmers of which we've got maybe three billion on the planet almost your entire food processor is what grows in your backyard your little one in your farm you inherit from your great grandparents what that means is that disruptions out here affect you less if your infrastructure is very close to yourself very close to your center and particularly in things like wars the primary infrastructure destructions are all at the national level right in disasters the primary infrastructure disruptions are at the local level and this again is one of these critical distinctions between kind of the old school red cross model and the you know war or war as a prototype of disaster model versus the poverty as the prototype of disaster model right this is this is really the fundamental hinge of the situation is that the organizations which of war is the prototype of disaster have a completely different mindset from the organizations which have poverty as the prototype of disaster and poverty is the prototype of disaster right 30 something million people a year die of causes related to poverty [5:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=328s) the number for war hasn't been that high for i mean since the middle of the second world war if it ever reached that number it's a whole different situation um so this this model of looking at the individual and then looking at where is the infrastructure which prevents these things happening to you allows you to build up a very quick map of fundamentally what is keeping people alive and secondly where are their gaps so this is an infrastructure mapping [6:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqNOcmM9XAY&t=371s) tool --- End of [369] Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); the most closely related, [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.