# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 4 of 9, 2009 to 2010)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 4 of 9, 2009 to 2010; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-5.md. 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; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### Leashless (2009)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id leashless; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- What: Manifesto on property and freedom: nobody with unmet needs is free, the Earth owns itself, and land should be leased rather than owned, with the rent shared.
- Summary: A 34-page illustrated manifesto. Its axioms: "The Earth owns itself as we own ourselves", and "The matter of your body belongs to Earth", so we owe a rent for being alive. Existing property rights derive mostly from violence; a sane system would lease land rather than own it, share the lease income among everyone, and phase out subsidies such as limited liability. Taxation is rent on state land and money rather than theft. The remedies are swadeshi, resistance to social control, and owning your own infrastructure through Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (2008): swadeshi, then the manifesto. Evidence (he says so): What is the Global Swadeshi Network? (blog) (2008-05-09) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/what-is-the-global-swadeshi-network-598; Leashless (PDF), p. 22 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Led to Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010): property from land, applied to copying. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 12 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; Leashless (PDF), p. 18 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Led to The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): an economy not based on plunder. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 7 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; The New Economy (In a Page) (2010) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf
- Sources (8, by hand first, then by importance): [831](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md) Leashless (2009); [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md) FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 2/4 - "Survival & Politics" (2016); [65](https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md) Leashless – a manifesto about freedom | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009); [56](https://guptaoption.com/texts/56.md) What is the Global Swadeshi Network? | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008); [453](https://guptaoption.com/texts/453.md) Predatory Debt Economy vs Fair Equity Economy (2025); [441](https://guptaoption.com/texts/441.md) The Necessity, Stability and Feasibility of Real Estate... (2025); [574](https://guptaoption.com/texts/574.md) Wealth Inequality (2022); [585](https://guptaoption.com/texts/585.md) ‘The Complexities of Turning Real Estate in to On Chain... (2022)

### Mapping Authority (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id mapping-authority; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/mapping_authority_vinay_gupta.pdf
- What: Slide deck on why multi-agency operations stall: who can do what, how each group runs the OODA loop, and the layered law each works inside.
- Summary: Actor capacity matrix (force projection, logistics, traits); multi-sector OODA across the international community, government, third sector and press; jurisdictional maps for NGO and military rule sets. Conclusion: explicit maps of capacities and rule sets could streamline cooperation.
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md) FluSCIM-6p-Spanish

### SCIM / INAM (2009)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id scim; https://guptaoption.com/#doc=dealing-in-security-july2010-en
- What: Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: 18 human needs across 7 scales, from the individual to the world.
- Summary: Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps. INAM is 18 needs x 7 tiers. The diagram is a shared map object. SCIM v1 4 June 2009. Book July 2010.
- Threads: STAR-TIDES; hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the map named. Evidence (he says so): Athens Hackerspace talk 13:45 (2012-09-14) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PwmbIFDIR4&t=825s; Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): pandemic as systems problem. Evidence (he says so): Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- Came from STAR-TIDES (2007): SCIM as underlying model. Evidence (he says so): Defense Horizons 70, p. 11, note 9 (2009-12) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-gpo41333.pdf#page=11
- Came from Infrastructure for Anarchists (2009): seeing the invisible grids, then mapping them. Evidence (implied by the later work): Talk outline for Jan 7th in London: Infrastructure for Anarchists (blog) (2009-01-04) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/talk-outline-for-jan-7th-in-london-infrastructure-for-anarchists-1144
- Led to Global Village Development Bank (2009): fill the cells with capital
- Led to FluSCIM (2010): Gonzalez applies the map. Evidence (he says so): FluSCIM report, English, 69 pages, p. 1, in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; FluSCIM blurb (resiliencemaps.org), in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/
- Led to Dealing in Security (2010): the framework, written up as a book. Evidence (he says so): Dealing in Security: Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping (blog) (2009-06-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/dealing-in-security-simple-critical-infrastructure-mapping-1550
- Led to Through the Looking Glass (2010): SCIM presented as risk mapping. Evidence (he says so): Through the Looking Glass talk 30:07 (2020-03-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8&t=1807s; Through the Looking Glass promo, Ireland, 26 to 28 September 2010, 0:22 (2010-09-12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cYlKkTUzM&t=22s
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): the map for planning refugee cities. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 17:30, Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps for a population in a new... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=1050s
- Led to The Living City (2009): the map drawn by who you call, for a city. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 7:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=469s; The Living City talk for Arup 10:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=619s
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [179](https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md) FluSCIM-slides-English; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [1](https://guptaoption.com/texts/1.md) Dealing in Security.July2010.en; [821](https://guptaoption.com/texts/821.md) Index of /FSFI (2008)

### Six Ways To Die workshops (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id six-ways-workshops; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/six-ways-to-die-workshop-introductory-lecture-at-formens-hus-1576
- What: Week-long design workshops built on Six Ways To Die: at Formens Hus in Sweden with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and in Eindhoven.
- Summary: September 2009 at Formens Hus, Hällefors, Sweden, an Emergency Housing Project workshop with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB): an introductory lecture, a field exercise, and team designs for each way to die, including a water-carrying backpack with purification, an integrated kitchen, a containerized biogas toilet block and an airdrop first aid kit. A shelter workshop in Eindhoven followed in October 2009.
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): taught as a design workshop. Evidence (he says so): Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens Hus (blog) (2009-09-24) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/six-ways-to-die-workshop-introductory-lecture-at-formens-hus-1576
- Came from Hope for the World (2009): the same Swedish venue, six months later. Evidence (implied by the later work): Hope For The World talk 10:00 (2017-03-21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN7q23D4rBo&t=600s; Hope for the World: my talk from the Emergency Housing workshop in Sweden (blog) (2009-03-02) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/hope-for-the-world-my-talk-from-the-emergency-housing-workshop-in-sweden-1330
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [187](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md) Six Ways To Die workshops (2009); [247](https://guptaoption.com/texts/247.md) Hexayurt Interviews Hexayurt Footage From The... (2020); [84](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md) Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009); [832](https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md) Index of /six_ways_to_die (2008)

### The Flu Code (2009)

- Crisis planning; proposal; specified; work id flu-code; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- What: Four rules of responsible behavior in a pandemic, a public service from the Institute for Collapsonomics; Wired's swine flu primer pointed readers to it.
- Summary: Flu Code 0.1 beta, 26 April 2009, "a public service from The Institute for Collapsonomics". Four rules for anyone in a pandemic-affected area: stay at home at any sign of flu; stay away from crowds and always wear a mask in public; cleanse your hands at the doorway on arrival; and encourage others to follow the rules: "The key principle is to protect each other by being responsible." Wired's swine flu primer cited it two days later.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): a pandemic plan, then a public code. Evidence (implied by the later work): Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php; The Flu Code (blog) (2009-04-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- Came from Institute for Collapsonomics (2009): a public service from the Institute for Collapsonomics. Evidence (he says so): The Flu Code (blog) (2009-04-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/the-flu-code-ethical-behavior-to-protect-each-other-1435
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md) The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2009); [53](https://guptaoption.com/texts/53.md) Wired notes the Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2009); [178](https://guptaoption.com/texts/178.md) FluSCIM-blurb

### The Living City (2009)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id living-city; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Living_City__Arup__Nov2009__Cold_Katrina.pdf
- What: A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike Bennett: how cities learned to beat fire, and two risks they have not, a pandemic and Cold Katrina, a winter failure of the US power grid.
- Summary: A presentation by Mike Bennett and Vinay Gupta of Buttered Side Down, their risk consultancy, to the engineering firm Arup, London, November 2009, with 23 slides. Bennett opens on the city as a rain forest and on how cities beat fire after Chicago, London and Tokyo burned: changed behavior, better buildings, public fire brigades and enforced building codes, change at every level from the individual to the state. Gupta sorts risks into old or new and point or systemic, and maps them with the six ways to die and Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps, drawn by tiers of bureaucracy rather than geography, because in a crisis what matters is who you call. Scenario one is a pandemic: H1N1 in 2009 against the 1918 flu, buildings flu-hardened through temperature and humidity, quarantine supply chains (about a kilogram of food per person per day, 10,000 tons a day for New York) and drugs such as insulin. Scenario two, Cold Katrina, is an attack that takes down the US electrical grid for a sustained period in winter, met by an incompetent federal response. Since nobody expects the grid can be hardened enough, the talk argues for unmaking the risk by visionary adaptation, changing systems before the crisis rather than after it, against the mind's habit of under-reacting to rare, vast risks. It closes with recommendations: resilience now plans for organizations and a pilot project with Arup. Gupta's 2012 upload notes that the discussion after the Cold Katrina section may bear on the follow-up to Hurricane Sandy; his 2021 upload says it looks prophetic in hindsight.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): the map drawn by who you call, for a city. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 7:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=469s; The Living City talk for Arup 10:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=619s
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): pandemic flu as the first city scenario. Evidence (he says so): The Living City talk for Arup 15:19 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=919s; The Living City talk for Arup 12:49 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=769s
- Led to The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): the recording, released in the archive. Evidence (he says so): Gupta State Failure Management Archive reader's guide (Appropedia) http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive
- Led to Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): lessons for city governments, four years on. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Living City talk for Arup 19:36 (2012-11-03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vBX8cIqqTI&t=1176s; Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis, p. 9 (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/Municipal_Administration_of_Cities_in_Crisis.Vinay_Gupta.pdf
- Sources (26, by hand first, then by importance): [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012); [847](https://guptaoption.com/texts/847.md) The Living City (slides; Mike Bennett & Vinay Gupta,... (2009); [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); [32](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md) Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006); [341](https://guptaoption.com/texts/341.md) Vinay Gupta - Reykjavik Digital Freedoms Conference -... (2012); [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [8](https://guptaoption.com/texts/8.md) Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013); [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [63](https://guptaoption.com/texts/63.md) Health insurance for $10 per year using the network |... (2008); [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md) this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical... (2008); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009); ...

### Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009)

- Economics of resources; model; specified; work id three-rules-social-enterprise; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf
- What: Two-page paper defining a social enterprise by how it converts financial capital into social capital and back, using the capital conversion matrix first seen at the Rocky Mountain Institute.
- Summary: There is no rigorous definition of social enterprise, so the paper builds one from triple bottom line accounting and the Capital Conversion Matrix, "a sort of 2D balance sheet" first drawn on a whiteboard at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Grameenphone is the worked example: network spending raises customers' social connectivity, which the phone ladies turn back into sales. The rules: (i) convert financial capital into social capital and back again, in an identifiable positive loop; (ii) use alignment with customers to cut conflict and transaction costs, "as trust is value"; (iii) be net positive in both, self-supporting financially and producing objectively measurable social value. Corporate social responsibility programs fail the first two rules and charities usually fail the first and third. Reprinted in the Lean Green Mattereum deck (2020).
- Threads: social enterprise
- Came from Small is Profitable (2002): the capital conversion matrix, first seen at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Evidence (implied by the later work): Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise, p. 1 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf
- Came from Global Village Development Bank (2009): lending against social capital. Evidence (implied by the later work): Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 1 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf; Global Village Development Bank, draft 2, p. 3 (2009-03-12) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/The_Global_Village_Development_Bank_v2.pdf
- Led to The Private Humanitarian Company (2010): a social enterprise for aid
- Led to Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): from social enterprise to a venture model. Evidence (implied by the later work): Capital Partners transcript, August 2016, p. 6 (2016-08) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_guy_capital_partners.pdf; Dog Atheism (Google Doc) (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit
- Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): reprinted in the 2020 deck. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 107 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Led to A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (2012): venture social capital. Evidence (implied by the later work): Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise, p. 1 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Three_Rules_for_Designing_the_Social_Enterprise.pdf; A Feather for Lifting Anvils: EdgeRyders 2.0 (blog) (2012-11-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-feather-for-lifting-anvils-edgeryders-2-0-plans-to-change-the-world-3350
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [24](https://guptaoption.com/texts/24.md) Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009); [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020)

### Visionary Adaptation (2009)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id visionary-adaptation; https://web.archive.org/web/20141109073410/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/beyond-resilience-visionary-adaptation-1374
- What: Four models of change, and the argument that crisis response must choose between restoring a system and priming it for revolution.
- Summary: Resilience, adaptation, revolutionary change and pathological resilience, where a failure to adapt leads to crisis and back to the same state. Diagram deck dated 4/4/2009 and blog post the same day.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [320](https://guptaoption.com/texts/320.md) The Living City - Buttered Side Down presentation to... (2012)

### "Complex systems behave unpredictably": Gupta's law of complex systems (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; model; specified; work id gupta-law-complex-systems; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-intellectual-history-1776
- What: Blog essay tracing his turn from physics to complexity in his 1980s schooling, and the law he draws from it: complex systems behave unpredictably.
- Summary: About 950 words, 26 June 2010. An intellectual history from his 1980s schooling, turning from physics to complexity, and the working rule he takes from it: complex systems behave unpredictably.
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Led to The Goat Rodeo Index (2010): complexity, then a scale for governance messes. Evidence (implied by the later work): Complex systems behave unpredictably: Gupta's law of complex systems (blog) (2010-06-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-intellectual-history-1776; The Goat Rodeo Index (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [74](https://guptaoption.com/texts/74.md) “Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of... (2010); [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md) Taming Black Elephants (2017); [385](https://guptaoption.com/texts/385.md) test (2013)

### Above the Basin and Tashkent Horizons (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id two-stories-2010; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Tashkent%20Horizons.pdf
- What: Two short stories: an outbreak on an orbital factory, and an agent of a guerrilla EPA in a post-crash high-tech anarchy.
- Summary: Both printed Vinay Gupta, May 20, 2010, four pages each.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012)

### Camp Danger hinge (2010) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-hinge; https://www.appropedia.org/Camp_Danger_Hexayurt_Hinge_Technique
- What: Community-designed folding Hexayurt held together by tape hinges.
- Summary: Tape-hinge folding hexayurt. Julie Danger and Chris Camp. Built at Burning Man 2010. The videos became the easiest way to learn a playa hexayurt.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): folding tape hinge. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt 0:00, tape hinges... (2011-05-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=0s; Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding Hexayurt 2:30, the hinge on... (2011-05-19) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBPY3-CpwM&t=150s
- Sources (14, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [98](https://guptaoption.com/texts/98.md) Hexayurt project/Camp danger Hexayurt hinge technique (2010); [751](https://guptaoption.com/texts/751.md) Vinay Gupta and Julie Danger on Camp Danger Semi Folding... (2011); [294](https://guptaoption.com/texts/294.md) Practice Safe Hex - Burning Man Hexayurt Safety Checklist! (2015); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [374](https://guptaoption.com/texts/374.md) The Hexayurt Project 2007 Intro Video (2007); [329](https://guptaoption.com/texts/329.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Folding Combined Endeavor (2012); [336](https://guptaoption.com/texts/336.md) RAW FOOTAGE Hexayurt Roof Cone Combined Endeavor (2012); [339](https://guptaoption.com/texts/339.md) 15 minute video on how to make Hexayurts for Burning Man (2012); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010); [290](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md) test (2016); [289](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md) test (2016); ...

### Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id copyright-digital-economy; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/COPYRIGHT_NESTA.pdf
- What: Short paper proposing land law, with rights of way and trespass, as a better model for copying than theft: "digital trespass rather than theft".
- Summary: With labor automated, fights over copyright and patents are capital and talent dividing the pie. Theft metaphors give no insight; land law does, with rights of way, trespass and nuisance. Markets rightly absorb the risk of creative work, and the law should separate "a 14 year old sending a copy of a song to five friends" from organized leaks. It ends: "discuss digital trespass rather than theft as our core terrain." The file name ties it to NESTA.
- Threads: RMI to spiral
- Came from Leashless (2009): property from land, applied to copying. Evidence (implied by the later work): Leashless (PDF), p. 12 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf; Leashless (PDF), p. 18 (2009) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/leashless_manifesto.pdf
- Sources (48, by hand first, then by importance): [820](https://guptaoption.com/texts/820.md) Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010); [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [86](https://guptaoption.com/texts/86.md) Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the... (2012); [831](https://guptaoption.com/texts/831.md) Leashless (2009); [647](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md) Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [314](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md) EMF2014 hexayurt talk Hexayurts, Distributed... (2014); [657](https://guptaoption.com/texts/657.md) Legal Panel - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [6](https://guptaoption.com/texts/6.md) Blind in the Panopticon: The decreasing marginal utility... (2012); [763](https://guptaoption.com/texts/763.md) FutureRant - Vinay Gupta Pt 2/4 - "Survival & Politics" (2016); [257](https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md) Vinay Gupta - Oslo Blockchain Day - Merging the Physical... (2019); [330](https://guptaoption.com/texts/330.md) Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Smari McCarthy (Icelandic Fab... (2012); [851](https://guptaoption.com/texts/851.md) Global governance in the era of blockchain. (2018); ...

### Dealing in Security (2010)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id dealing-in-security; https://guptaoption.com/#doc=dealing-in-security-july2010-en
- What: Book setting out Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: the 18 needs every population must meet, across 7 scales.
- Summary: July 2010, version 3.2. The source of the needs-by-scale matrix used on this page. Author: Vinay Gupta (PDF metadata).
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): the framework, written up as a book. Evidence (he says so): Dealing in Security: Simple Critical Infrastructure Mapping (blog) (2009-06-14) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/dealing-in-security-simple-critical-infrastructure-mapping-1550
- Led to The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): released into the public domain. Evidence (he says so): The Gupta State Failure Management Archive: a public resource for hard times (blog) (2011-08-06) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-gupta-state-failure-management-archive-a-public-resource-for-hard-times-2636
- Connects back to Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): offered as the toolkit for EVOKE's urban resilience mission
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009)

### Enabling humanitarian innovation (TEDxEWB) (2010)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id tedxewb-2010; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/enabling_humanitarian_innovation_TEDxEWB_2010.pdf
- What: Talk for Engineers Without Borders: poverty is a permanent disaster that kills about 20 million a year, and household infrastructure protects people.
- Summary: Six ways to die as the frame; a global Ghost Map of water, sanitation, stoves and farming; Small is Profitable on why it is not done yet.
- Sources (12, by hand first, then by importance): [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [270](https://guptaoption.com/texts/270.md) Hope For The World (2017); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [267](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md) The future of humanitarian innovation (2017); [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md) Sweden Presentation; [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [832](https://guptaoption.com/texts/832.md) Index of /six_ways_to_die (2008); [58](https://guptaoption.com/texts/58.md) Blog Action Day: Poverty – Ending Poverty with Open... (2008); [84](https://guptaoption.com/texts/84.md) Six Ways to Die Workshop introductory lecture at Formens... (2009); [332] Global Swadeshi Dialogs - Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris... (2012) (no text here); [196] Mark Charmer on Open Source Water and Sanitation... (2008) (no text here)

### FluSCIM (2010) (about him, by others)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id fluscim; https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/
- What: Another author's application of the SCIM framework to pandemic flu.
- Summary: Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz applies SCIM to pandemic influenza. Hosted on resiliencemaps.org. Comes after SPRS.
- Threads: hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu
- Came from Severe Panflu Response Strategies (H5N1) (2008): SPRS precedes FluSCIM. Evidence (implied by the later work): FluSCIM slides, English, p. 1 (Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz, 15 December 2011), in the... (2011-12-15) https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; Severe Panflu Response Strategies v0.5A (2008-03-03) https://guptaoption.com/6.SPRS.php
- Came from SCIM / INAM (2009): Gonzalez applies the map. Evidence (he says so): FluSCIM report, English, 69 pages, p. 1, in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/; FluSCIM blurb (resiliencemaps.org), in the resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim directory https://resiliencemaps.org/files/fluscim/
- Sources (17, by hand first, then by importance): [303](https://guptaoption.com/texts/303.md) How To Sell Ideas from (from Ethereum DEVCON Berlin) (2015); [689](https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md) Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (2014); [681](https://guptaoption.com/texts/681.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 1 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [173](https://guptaoption.com/texts/173.md) Index of /files/fluscim (2010); [179](https://guptaoption.com/texts/179.md) FluSCIM-slides-English; [180](https://guptaoption.com/texts/180.md) FluSCIM-slides-Spanish; [97](https://guptaoption.com/texts/97.md) The Flu Code | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2009); [685](https://guptaoption.com/texts/685.md) Pandemics and the Coronavirus Part 2 with Vinay Gupta (2020); [372](https://guptaoption.com/texts/372.md) this is not a video about coronavirus - the hypothetical... (2008); [174](https://guptaoption.com/texts/174.md) FluSCIM-69p-English; [177](https://guptaoption.com/texts/177.md) FluSCIM-84p-Spanish; [176](https://guptaoption.com/texts/176.md) FluSCIM-6p-Spanish; ...

### Free housing and 21st Century Leadership (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; model; specified; work id free-housing-leadership; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/free-housing-and-21st-century-leadership-1930
- What: Blog essay on the model of personal effectiveness he adopted after inventing the Hexayurt in 2002, with Fuller, Gandhi and Richard Stallman as the examples.
- Summary: About 1,400 words, 27 August 2010. "Buckminster Fuller and Mahatma Gandhi showed that single individuals could transform the world." After inventing the Hexayurt in 2002 he looked for a model of how to be effective, and this is roughly what he came to: institutions that own humanitarian problems have been ineffective for generations; government is slow, though the Pentagon has developed some good technology; leaders are turned into managers by building funded organizations; the right times for things come but cannot be predicted; and "all roads lead to Richard Stallman".
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): how to be effective after 2002. Evidence (he says so): Free housing and 21st Century Leadership (blog) (2010-08-27) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/free-housing-and-21st-century-leadership-1930
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [711](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md) Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014); [76](https://guptaoption.com/texts/76.md) Free housing and 21st Century Leadership | The... (2010); [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md) ODM 6981 Oxford Technology and Media Network Climate Change (2020); [315](https://guptaoption.com/texts/315.md) Three Bureaucracies of Sharing: Owners, Managers and... (2014); [114](https://guptaoption.com/texts/114.md) Tools To Not Die With: An Interview with Vinay Gupta,... (2011); [65](https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md) Leashless – a manifesto about freedom | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)

### H13 (2010) (he contributed)

- Survival hardware; built; specified; work id hy-h13; https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Hexayurt_H13
- What: Community-designed Hexayurt with a full-height door.
- Summary: One extra panel on the classic H12. Full-height doorway and more standing room. Designed by Scott Davis and Dylan Toymaker. First year on the playa: 2011.
- Threads: hexayurt builds
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): full-height door. Evidence (he says so): Appropedia: Hexayurt H13 https://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_project/Hexayurt_H13; hexayurt.com history timeline https://hexayurt.com/
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [36](https://guptaoption.com/texts/36.md) The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware housing for the world (2002); [364](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md) burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011); [104](https://guptaoption.com/texts/104.md) Hexayurt project/Hexayurt H13 (2010)

### Hexayurt Country (2010)

- Crisis planning; proposal; thesis; work id hexayurt-country; https://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/
- What: Plan to rehouse Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake in Hexayurts, financed with the money that would otherwise go on relief tents that rot within a year.
- Summary: hexayurt.com, 22 January 2010: "We can finance stable housing for Haiti for the same money that would otherwise be wasted on disposable relief tents." Hexayurt Country "is not a state of mind, it's a death rate: over 1%"; Haiti, with 10 million people and 200,000 dead so far, is Hexayurt Country. It applies Six Ways To Die and SCIM, and proposes counting the dead, with a photograph and a cause of death, to draw mortality maps that set priorities. Relief tents last a year: a million homeless people at five to a home is 200,000 homes, and $1,000 transitional shelters plus $400 first tents come to about $280 million before water and sanitation. The Hexayurt is "a tent for the real world". Three documents followed: Healing Haiti (February 2010), on development rather than rebuilding, with the Big Five priced per household; The Hexayurt in Haiti (v1.2, 16 February 2010), a 16-page plywood engineering briefing for Engineers Without Borders, at $100 per basic shelter and $200 to $500 storm-resistant; and a one-page cost spreadsheet.
- Threads: nuclear / panflu
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): Haiti. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Country: the Hexayurt Project plan for relief and reconstruction in Haiti (2010-01-22) https://hexayurt.com/hexayurt_country/
- Led to Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): Haiti, then Katrina and Sandy, for city governments
- Sources (17, by hand first, then by importance): [710](https://guptaoption.com/texts/710.md) TEDxEWB - Vinay Gupta - Enabling Humanitarian Innovation (2010); [14](https://guptaoption.com/texts/14.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); [16](https://guptaoption.com/texts/16.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [13](https://guptaoption.com/texts/13.md) Hexayurt Country (2010); [90](https://guptaoption.com/texts/90.md) The Hexayurt in Haiti – a technical description | The... (2010); [101](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md) Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007); [15](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007); [145](https://guptaoption.com/texts/145.md) Sweden Presentation; [150](https://guptaoption.com/texts/150.md) Reykjavik Hexayurt Briefing; [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md) Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis; [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md) Wisdom spirals and doom loops: the deck (2026); ...

### In a Page (2010)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id in-a-page; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/
- What: A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting one argument on a single sheet.
- Summary: Already in the graph: Why Nothing Works, The New Economy, The Private Humanitarian Company, the NESTA copyright piece. Not yet: seven thousand einsteins (talent coming online), summum bonum (predators with technology), the future in a page (an individual with a foreign policy: the Hexayurt Project), The New Politics (the black world of secret budgets), the seventh seal, why you need to get off your ass, will the next generation act? (with Edmund Harriss, Cloughjordan, 2011), a theory of history (2015), What is freedom? (2020). The Democratic Empire and Sharing our fear can make peace are proposed separately.
- Sources (43, by hand first, then by importance): [826](https://guptaoption.com/texts/826.md) Index of /in_a_page (2010); [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md) The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010); [148](https://guptaoption.com/texts/148.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [155](https://guptaoption.com/texts/155.md) Mother of Hydrogen (2012); [322](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md) Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012); [66](https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md) My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper... (2007); [106](https://guptaoption.com/texts/106.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [210](https://guptaoption.com/texts/210.md) The Future We Deserve (2012); [240](https://guptaoption.com/texts/240.md) The Future We Deserve — Introduction (2012); [52](https://guptaoption.com/texts/52.md) When? | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011); [354](https://guptaoption.com/texts/354.md) The Future We Deserve - 2 (2012); [77] I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we... (2011) (no text here); ...

### New and Developing (Africa Gathering London 2010) (2010)

- Economics of resources; specified; work id africa-gathering-2010; https://web.archive.org/web/20140907192521/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/new-and-developed-vinay-gupta-hexayurt-project-africa-gathering-london-2010-1790
- What: Talk: the Big Five household interventions, the end of aid, and where growth will come from.
- Summary: Stop smoking, filtered water, smokeless cooking, effective sanitation, improved agriculture. With the US, Europe and China constrained, growth will come from places with room for 50 percent growth in ten years.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [359](https://guptaoption.com/texts/359.md) ZOOM0004 (2011)

### Nuclear Poker (2010)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id nuclear-poker; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/nuclear_poker_card_game_proliferation.pdf
- What: A card game about nuclear proliferation and deterrence, with a 2014 Playa Edition and a half-scale quad dome bunker for Electromagnetic Field.
- Summary: 2010 sheet by Vinay Gupta and Dan Carter, GNU FDL: build from Uranium to Superpower, trade by diplomacy, test, then strike, disarm or declare Mutually Assured Destruction. 2014 Playa Edition, art by Ian Willey, rules mostly his, crowdfunded with the Nuclear Poker Hexa-Bunker for Electromagnetic Field 2014.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [776](https://guptaoption.com/texts/776.md) Vinay Gupta presents "Nuclear Poker" to the London... (2016)

### Systems reformulated (2010)

- Writing and inner practice; specified; work id meditation-reformulation
- What: Meditation methods reworked and bench-tested privately with a few people.
- Summary: 2015 London talks: went back and re-formulated the systems in 2010 or 2011, bench-testing with a small number of people in secret.
- Threads: solo practice to the cutting machinery
- Came from Internal dialogue stops (1993): then the system, rewritten. Evidence (implied by the later work): My Thoughtmenu on Enlightenment (2020) https://web.archive.org/web/20181006171655/http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-thoughtmenu-on-enlightenment-3644
- Came from Nath Sampradaya initiation (2004): lineage practice, rewritten
- Led to The cutting machinery (2015): bench test becomes teaching
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [576](https://guptaoption.com/texts/576.md) '12 Percent US Inflation The Flight in to Hard, Real... (2022); [389](https://guptaoption.com/texts/389.md) Big Picture Days 3 (2013)

### The Democratic Empire (2010)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id democratic-empire; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_democratic_empire.pdf
- What: One-page scenario of global bankruptcy: the US withdraws, China struggles for unity, core Europe huddles, and much of the developing world falls into anarchy.
- Summary: Printed London, 9 June 2010. Maps the political umbrella each nuclear arsenal would cast after a severe global financial crash.

### The Goat Rodeo Index (2010)

- Crisis planning; model; specified; work id goat-rodeo; http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064
- What: A ten-level scale for how hard a governance mess is: many actors, competing incentives, some irrational, and few good outcomes.
- Summary: Blog post, 22 October 2010: The Goat Rodeo Index, a persistent governance antipattern. Rated I (a divorce) to X (future regulation of AI and similar technologies). Expanded in the one-page Why Nothing Works (2011). Taken further as the core of Of Warlords and Rodeos, the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015).
- Threads: goat rodeo to warlords
- Came from "Complex systems behave unpredictably": Gupta's law of complex systems (2010): complexity, then a scale for governance messes. Evidence (implied by the later work): Complex systems behave unpredictably: Gupta's law of complex systems (blog) (2010-06-26) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/a-little-intellectual-history-1776; The Goat Rodeo Index (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064
- Led to Why Nothing Works: identifying and quantifying the Goat Rodeo governance antipattern (2010): the index, written up in a page. Evidence (he says so): The Goat Rodeo Index, a persistent governance antipattern (blog) (2010-10-22) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/the-goat-rodeo-complexdifficult-situation-scale-2064; Why Nothing Works (In a Page PDF) (2011-06-13) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
- Sources (4, by hand first, then by importance): [88](https://guptaoption.com/texts/88.md) The Goat Rodeo Index – a persistent Governance... (2010); [725](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012); [25](https://guptaoption.com/texts/25.md) The Goat Rodeo Index (2011); [194](https://guptaoption.com/texts/194.md) Of Warlords and Rodeos: Why Nothing Works - North... (2015)