I forgot to reply to this :) Guten Tag zurück aus Bonn!
Your email made me reach out to another friend/now acquaintance who was interested in designing Life - for himself and others. It morphed into another monster altogether but his vision remains the same. I'm intrigued by the idea of 'building weak ties' (see reference to friend/now acquaintance above). And ALLFED sounds very very cool. I hope you are thriving and happy there. After reading the links you provided and the questions you asked, I'm left with a vague sense of unease - one that makes this feel cultish. I would like to sit with this feeling to analyze why I am uneasy. Bryan Johnson and his Bloodboy, referenced in part by Vitalik in the Zuzalu article, play a large part. Cults get a bad rep, we're all cultish to some extent. But this set off alarm bells. Tell me, what do you want to be made possible with pop up cities like this? What impact would snowball in 5, 10, 20 years to make a change that sprouted from a pop up city? I ride motorcycles for pleasure and travel extensively with them, sometimes with bigger groups and sometimes as solo as solo can get. I notice that bigger groups consume tremendous amounts of resources, wield a disproportionate chunk of negotiating and buying power and leave a mess in their wake for the people, who live in the space long term, to clean up. Maybe it's just motorcyclists. Or buses full of tourists. Or .. what the Goans are currently groaning about the influx of the part time Delhi and Noida population that skewed economics for the native populations. Thank you for the mental workout :) Ich freue mich, von dir wieder zu hören. Huda On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 13:45, Yeshodhara B via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > Hello fellow Silklisters, (not sure if that is the right name, but has a > nice ring to it) > > Guten Tag! > It’s an absolute pleasure to be here and part of this awesome community. > Thank you for having me here Udhay :) > > A quick intro—I'm Yesh. I was born in Bangalore, but Berlin is home now. > I'm someone who's pro-humanity and a techno-optimist but with a dash of > healthy pessimism (keeps things interesting!). I’m constantly asking: how > do we help humanity not just survive, but truly thrive in the long term? > > By day, I work as a project manager at ALLFED <http://ALLFED.info>, where > we focus on global food resilience (preparing for events that could take > out 10% or more of the global food supply—think nuclear winter or other fun > apocalyptic scenarios). By night, I channel my engineering and physics > background into designing hyper-stable structures for satellite > <https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-third-generation> applications. > > For the past 8 months, I’ve been working on something a bit more > experimental and communal—ZuGrama <http://zugrama.org>. It’s a pop-up > village in India that I’m co-building with another fellow Silklister, Dr. > Anish Mohammed. Think of it as a place where the world’s brightest > minds—scientists, engineers, cryptographers, builders—don’t just work > together but live together, collaborate deeply, and push the boundaries of > what’s possible. It’s inspired by Zuzalu > <https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/10/06/why-i-built-zuzalu/> (which > Vitalik Buterin kicked off), and it pulls from Balaji’s concept of network > states. It feels like the right time for these kinds of experiments, with > similar projects popping up in other corners of the world — 1 > <https://balajis.com/p/network-school>, 2 <https://vitalia.city/>. > > What are your thoughts on pop-up villages or these “networked state” > concepts? Do they excite you? If you could be part of one, what kind of > experiences would you want to have? > > Looking forward to diving into some awesome conversations with you all! > > Best, Yesh > -- > Silklist mailing list > Silklist@lists.digeratus.in > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > -- Huda Masood +91 9886796967
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