# http://hexayurt.com/coat > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [37]. 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: document (Text), 2023 (from the career record), https://hexayurt.com/coat/. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): The built garment of the Hexacloak clothing component: a cheap hooded coat (the Hexacoat, 2023) protecting the individual against cold; the cloth-rectangle cloak design itself is developed in 724/727 (2024). - Career works it belongs to: - Hexacoat (2023): A hooded coat cut from woobie blanket fabric, made to order by a Chinese wholesale factory for about £25. - Avoid Winter War: Hexayurts and #Occupy (2011): Reply to requests to supply the Occupy camps for winter: after listing the winter kit, including folding... (suggested by machine) - Hexacloak (2023): A hooded cloak from standard 60-inch cloth with no manufacturing step: drape, tie, twist a double loop.... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. - Topics: ESCROWNYM / cryptographic ethics / People’s Cloud (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Burning Man (1 here; 90 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.28 (1.00 is the top), number 273 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [287] [test edit (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/287.md); [288] [test (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/288.md); [782] [FutureRant w/ Gabriel D Vine - Vinay Gupta TEASER (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/782.md) - On the same works, just after: [727] [Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md); [724] [Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.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: http://hexayurt.com/coat, document, 2023, https://hexayurt.com/coat/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [37], https://guptaoption.com/texts/37.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://hexayurt.com/coat/) http://hexayurt.com/coatPublished using Google DocsReport abuseLearn morehttp://hexayurt.com/coatUpdated automatically every 5 minutes The Coat The woobie is a simple nylon and polyester blanket, often called The Greatest Military Invention Ever Fielded. People have been cutting them into smoking jackets or other garments for years. I got curious, and ordered one from a Chinese factory which makes woobies and many other things. They made me prototype with some special features I wanted, and it is great, and now you can order them online directly from China for £25 each, or less in bulk. You’re buying directly from a Chinese wholesale manufacturer. They’d rather you bought a minimum of ten - or three hundred. They can make them in a variety of sizes, and optionally they can leave off the pockets, which is ideal for jackets that will get shared or left in piles at a venue. There are lots of variants. The coats are insanely warm, because they cover so much of your body - it’s like wearing a sleeping bag. They’re very light - it weighs like nothing. The fabric feels very soft. Detailing is excellent - note the buttons, sleeves, and collar. There is a full hood. My hope is that you can order online, and work with the manufacturers to refine and customize the design. For larger production runs they can custom-print the fabric. They tell me that you can order a “mixed batch” of garments - different sizes in a single run, and they’ll work with you to make it convenient. My hope is that for the next Burning Man, theme camps will get a run of coats made right out of the camp dues, one coat per person and some extras for guests, so folks will be warm in the middle of the night when they’re out there in their party clothes. Remember to order the “no pockets” option - order without pockets, and folks won’t lose their IDs if they leave their coat somewhere and then forget where it is when they’re out dancing. Once we get pretty good at these, we can start manufacturing them for homeless folks. That’s step two. Brought to you by the same folks who brought you the hexayurt. --- End of [37] http://hexayurt.com/coat. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.