# Big Picture Days 3 > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [389]. 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, 2013-06-01 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EuooLcr2U. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - 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): Context. - Career works it belongs to: - Free science and engineering in the global public interest (2009): Talk deck: poverty causes a quarter to a half of 60 million deaths a year, and open source hardware gets... (suggested by machine) - Systems reformulated (2010): Meditation methods reworked and bench-tested privately with a few people. (suggested by machine) - The Fiends Give Sudden Chase (2011): Five very short horror stories, written after reading Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction. (through a work suggested by machine) - solo practice to the cutting machinery: From solo sitting in the 1980s to a taught meditation system. (through a work suggested by machine) - Importance: core-text score 0.07 (1.00 is the top), number 646 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [356] [Winter Wonderland, Trouble, Seven Sisters - Andrew C... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/356.md); [357] [Mexico - Bleak Blues - Makerhood Christmas Party (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/357.md); [358] [Run for Cover, Last Christmas - Bleak Blues - Makerhood... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/358.md) - On the same works, just after: [290] [test (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md); [247] [Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The... (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md); [576] ['12 Percent US Inflation The Flight in to Hard, Real... (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/576.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: Big Picture Days 3, video, 2013-06-01, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EuooLcr2U; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [389], https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EuooLcr2U&t=0s) first of all I want to tell you that I'm not here to sell you anything I'm not here to persuade I'm just here to share my experience of what i' I've been doing in more important so it started off starts off in 2002 uh 2002 I was working uh in basically I was working in an overhead on an overhead on uh in public services and and the audit commission looks at and how well they performing those and uh obviously the know I I I paid my dues in a large organization that was extremely held tight and um I think it's important to recognize a lot of those organizations are still extremely held tight um but that doesn't mean that we can't do anything about it um uh Yan um met my boss at a conference and he was dragged in to talk to me about what he was doing at the BBC there uh and he introduced me to two things which which which one was blocking uh it was I i' kind of heard this word but I but I had no idea what it was he showed us what bling was [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8EuooLcr2U&t=150s) and it's hard now to remember quite what a clysmic thing that was that I suddenly found to write whatever I wanted on the internet you know without asking anybody uh and I was working in an organization where you know I had to ask every was asked to go to the toilet practically you know it was it was that nailed down and here I was with the opportunity to write write stuff that anybody in the world could read if they they chose to that that do my mind the other thing that he talked about them on the back of what blogging was was these people that he met through blogging uh and he talked in particular about two two guys who were authors of the uh the clue --- End of [389] Big Picture Days 3. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [290](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md) test (2016); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.