• About Vinay Gupta

    Vinay Gupta is a consultant on disaster relief and risk management.

    http://hexayurt.com/plan

    Dynamic Tension

    by  • March 4, 2013 • Everything Else • 17 Comments

    Although I spend a lot of time feeling powerless, I have more undivided, informed, concentrated attention on the affairs of the world than almost anybody. Because I’m self-funded (i.e. usually broke) and self-directed, I get to set my own agendas. There are very few actors with this kind of freedom. It also means that I [...]

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    A little connection

    by  • February 28, 2013 • Everything Else • 0 Comments

    “A players hire A players. B players hire C players. Then comes the Bozo explosion” This is well explained by the Dunning-Kruger effect, “Idiots are too stupid to know they are idiots.” This can be seen as a minor corollary of the “Five Laws of Stupidity” which assert that idiots are the most dangerous kind [...]

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    Fracking has saved the world? An unusual thesis

    by  • February 7, 2013 • Everything Else • 7 Comments

    Punchline: Fracking probably holds the global economy together long enough for cheap solar to take over by 2020. (note: I used to work at the Rocky Mountain Institute, and worked on http://smallisprofitable.org and http://oilendgame.com. I’ve also spent a bit of time doing geostrategy around resource conflict) Details: I’ve been sold on the risk (I’d put [...]

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    A Feather for Lifting Anvils – EdgeRyders 2.0 plans to change the world

    by  • November 26, 2012 • Everything Else • 0 Comments

    A Feather for Lifting Anvils – EdgeRyders 2.0 plans to change the world The EdgeRyders community has decided to take a crack solving the world’s problems by inventing a new collective structure: “Venture Social Capital.” The idea is to “finance” new positive, local projects using the collective power of an extended social network, with a [...]

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    Meaning: Plausible Utopias

    by  • October 19, 2012 • Everything Else • 6 Comments

    A couple of weeks ago, October 1st, I talked at the Meaning Conference. The good Will McInnes. Will invited me to give a talk at a social business sessions meetup in London, and I talked on the Hexayurt Project and Social Capital, and I guess Will wanted to see what I’d do with a broader [...]

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