New and Developed – Vinay Gupta – Hexayurt Project – Africa Gathering London 2010
by Vinay Gupta • July 4, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
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The Strategic Complexity Framework – for Dummies
by Vinay Gupta • June 26, 2010 • Everything Else • 5 Comments
I recently pestered my friend Noah Raford to summarize his understanding of Cynefin and complexity in a single page document. Noah called it the Strategic Complexity Framework. I, being still a bit dyslexic, can never keep the “simple, complicated, complex, chaotic” thing from Dave Snowdon‘s Cynefin framework straight in my head. And I think about [...]
Read more →“Complex systems behave unpredictably” – Gupta’s law of complex systems
by Vinay Gupta • June 26, 2010 • Everything Else • 5 Comments
(this post was originally called “a little intellectual history.”) A thing of any importance is discovered at least three times. In the 1980s I was a bright young thing. Several of my teachers had identified me as a once-in-a-lifetime student, but I had no idea what I wanted to do. Physics was the obvious course, [...]
Read more →15 Aphorisms on Spiritual Politics
by Vinay Gupta • June 24, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
1. Spiritual Politics is the art of the impossible. India, South Africa, America. 2. Spiritual Politics will cost you your life, metaphorically and in many cases literally. 3. If you have any choice in the matter, you have not passed. 4. The spiritual politician is both all powerful (as god) and powerless (before all others, [...]
Read more →Infrastructure is a land multiplier
by Vinay Gupta • June 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
A “force multiplier” increases the relative effectiveness of a fighting force. A gun, for example, is a force multiplier. Infrastructure is a land multiplier. For example, at five people per acre, about the maximum possible sustinable density for high intensity organic agriculture, Greater London can support about 1/4 of its current population. Therefore the “land [...]
Read more →My new About Me page
by Vinay Gupta • May 22, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
I’m Vinay Gupta. The following is a cross-section of my work. Hexayurt – the world’s cheapest, most durable emergency shelter. Free/open source. Small is Profitable – The Economist’s Book of the Year 2003, on decentralized energy economics. (editorial team) Winning the Oil Endgame – Pentagon-funded study on getting the US to zero oil consumption in [...]
Read more →My old “About Me” page
by Vinay Gupta • May 22, 2010 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
I’m about to do a new one. This is for the archives. I am best known as the creator of the Hexayurt free/open refugee shelter. I also act in a wide range of advisory and consulting tasks for clients across all sectors. If you would like to do some thinking together, write to me here. [...]
Read more →The real face of the big society
by Vinay Gupta • May 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 1 Comment
Large hexayurt-style domes – a problem solved
by Vinay Gupta • May 15, 2010 • Everything Else • 13 Comments
Edmund Harriss has solved a problem I’ve been working on off-and-on for nearly 15 years. This is splendid. Back in 1995 or so I was challenged with reducing the waste involved in making geodesic domes for Worldview Livingspace a nascent dome company. I couldn’t get the waste below about 25% because of the poor fit [...]
Read more →The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the mind
by Vinay Gupta • May 3, 2010 • Everything Else • 3 Comments
in a page is a seven essay collection describing our global situation from different perspectives. Here’s a taste. We have a serious problem. Communism leads to genocide. But Capitalism leads to ecocide. Our models of wealth are so broken that high tech societies of all kinds are inoperable on the long scale. The robo-nano-bio revolution [...]
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