# Index of /six_ways_to_die

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [832]. 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), 2008 (from the career record), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/six_ways_to_die/. 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 six-ways source papers.
- 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...
  - Six Ways To Die workshops (2009): Week-long design workshops built on Six Ways To Die: at Formens Hus in Sweden with the Swedish Civil... (suggested by machine)
  - Enabling humanitarian innovation (TEDxEWB) (2010): Talk for Engineers Without Borders: poverty is a permanent disaster that kills about 20 million a year,... (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.
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: 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)
- The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Six ways; Six Ways To Die
- Importance: core-text score 0.27 (1.00 is the top), number 283 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): career thread: The Cities That Will Walk Away (the six ways explained)
  - [341] [Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md): career thread: Ending Poverty With Open Hardware (the needs diagram in the talk)
- On the same works, just after: [70] [The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008); [369] [Hexayurt Project - Six Ways To Die (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/369.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: Index of /six_ways_to_die, document, 2008, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/six_ways_to_die/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [832], https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md.

## Passages
[passage 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/six_ways_to_die/) Index of /six_ways_to_die Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory - The General Survival Systems Model.pdf 2014-04-16 00:11 462K fragile plenty.pdf 2014-04-16 00:11 147K local infrastructure.pdf 2014-04-16 00:11 366K six ways to die as a grid.pdf 2014-04-16 00:11 54K

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End of [832] Index of /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, [70](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); 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.