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by Vinay Gupta • August 16, 2011 • The Big Deal • 21 Comments
Positive action from global economic disaster.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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More wrapping up loose ends.
by Vinay Gupta • August 15, 2011 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
As the new world that we’re in, post US sovereign default crisis, Norwegian shootings and London riots settles in, I’m feeling a strong pull to wind up more parts of my life. For the time being, I’m substantially done with politics. I’ve made all the arguments I need to. I’m not saying that I won’t [...]
Read more →On survival – how to do basic threat modeling
by Vinay Gupta • August 9, 2011 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
((The Gupta State Failure Management Archive, 4.3gb of lectures and documents on managing state failure, is in the Public Domain and available for download.)) The London Situation: Threat Modeling I was asked today to think about gear lists for the London situation, and about framing the risks of being in London period. I’m not sure [...]
Read more →The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times
by Vinay Gupta • August 6, 2011 • Everything Else • 11 Comments
I’ve just released 4.3gb of files on State Failure and contingency management into the public domain at Archive.org. You can browse, watch and download individual files there. There is the start of a collaborative “reader’s guide” on Appropedia. You can also download the entire set as a TAR file from Archive.org or try bit Bittorrent [...]
Read more →How to think about survival
by Vinay Gupta • August 4, 2011 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
((from a post made to the Reddit PostCollapse forum – just kind of a braindump to help some folks out who were just starting to grapple with these problems. Survival Epistemologist!)) ((The Gupta State Failure Management Archive, 4.3gb of lectures and documents on managing state failure, is in the Public Domain and available for download.)) [...]
Read more →Declaring victory
by Vinay Gupta • August 3, 2011 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
It’s come time for me to “declare victory” on two projects. 1) The Institute for Collapsonomics got going on this blog well over two years ago, in March 2009. The US has just narrowly avoided a sovereign default at which point there is no further need to argue about whether economic risks to the global [...]
Read more →On the Practical Exercise of Power – or why the Old White Dudes keep winning
by Vinay Gupta • July 26, 2011 • Everything Else • 4 Comments
Umair Haque would like a taste of power. My suggestion is: let’s leave those stuck in a predictable, homogeneous, stagnating, we’d-believe-you-more-if-you-were-an-old-white-dude past in the past. Let’s smash through the iron curtains of the status quo–by creating the future. {source: Sidenotes: Smashing The Status Quo’s Iron Curtains} The reason the Old White Dudes (OWD) are in [...]
Read more →Hexayurt H13 at the Cloughjordan Ecovillage
by Vinay Gupta • June 30, 2011 • Hexayurt • 9 Comments
We just built a Hexayurt H13 at the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. The H13 was designed by Scott Davis and Dylan Toymaker. The H13 adds one panel to the “classic” H12 hexayurt, but that one extra sheet of plywood gets an 8′ roof line and three times the walkable space inside the hexayurt. It’s a really beautiful [...]
Read more →The Winchester School of Art / The Future We Deserve Talk & Dialogue
by Vinay Gupta • June 28, 2011 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Nick Stewart invited me to the Winchester School of Art to do a talk on The Future We Deserve, and to do a panel discussion with him afterwards. I think you’ll agree we had a fascinating time. I’m very pleased with this video because at last there’s a coherent explanation of the models behind The [...]
Read more →Introducing the Governance Antipattern Library
by Vinay Gupta • June 14, 2011 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
This is a placeholder for a later blog post.
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