# TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [71]. 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 (Text), 2007-10-23 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/tides-the-skinny-344. Text: document text
- 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): Pointer to the TIDES life-support demo summary.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - STAR-TIDES (2007): Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on supporting populations under stress.
  - Briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at National Defense University (2008): Recorded briefing to the STAR-TIDES team at NDU, with a seven-point outline and the reading list behind... (suggested by machine)
  - Defense Horizons 70 (2009): Co-authored National Defense University paper on supporting stressed populations with distributed talent. (suggested by machine)
  - 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)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it.
- Topics: STAR–TIDES / Starfish — distributed humanitarian knowledge networks (100%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: TIDES (4 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); SSTR (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); communications (1 here; 81 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 5 undated)
- Importance: core-text score 0.17 (1.00 is the top), number 403 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [68] [STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md): same career work: STAR-TIDES
  - [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007): same career work: STAR-TIDES
- On the same works, just before: [182] [About (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md); [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007); [68] [STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md)
- On the same works, just after: [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md); [833] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - Briefing to the... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/833.md); [55] [FREE Guptastan | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/55.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: TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2007-10-23, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/tides-the-skinny-344; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [71], https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md.

## Passages
[passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/tides-the-skinny-344) If you’ve been wondering how the TIDES Demonstration at National Defense University went, the TIDES Summary – 2.5 mb PDF – 35 pages is a good place to start. This is a first draft of the TIDES boards – we’re still missing some of the material on solar, and everything to do with satellite communications – but if you want to know what was going on at TIDES, this is a pretty good guide to what was there and what it’s good for. Includes probably the best material I’ve put out to date on infrastructure and SSTR. The full print res file is huge (25 meg,) and here

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End of [71] TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: next on the same works, [137](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) STAR-TIDES (2007); the most closely related, [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.