Vinay Log

Wed Sep 2, 2020

• Pactive - [1]
• Joe Justice - recruiting.
• Literary people - land and nature. New people - machines.
• Penta - encapsulates all wrong in industrial civ. Penta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachlorophenol.
• Honeycomb polypropylene. Massively reduce number of chemicals. Glass, polypropylene, stainless steel.
• Ex - honeycomb panels.
• Every time housing becomes cheap, new regs are created to make it expensive. Ex - green belts - can't build.
• Hierarchical tax collection licensing.
• Interior wall-sound deadening will be important.
• Shed 30-40 dB of sound insulation. Everyone wants this for a bedroom.
• Recording studio - sound minimization issues required
• Interior walls - staggered studs - and nail has a rubber washer. Under where the nail goes. Between sheet rock and stud.
• Perceived size of house - sound proofing. Psychologically, if you can hear, the people are still there.
• Movable sun shades - 1 kw/m2 - cool in summer, hot in winter.
• Stick house 2x4 is always a mess.
• Habitat would be another group to pitch to. Low cost housing design.
• Rubicon - ex military adjunct to red cross. https://teamrubiconusa.org/
• Survivalist world is a good client -
• Frank lloyd wright - expandable house for returning vets.
• Nothing is an easy sale.
• Portland, Madison, Austin.
• There is urgency because of forthcoming housing crisis
• Architect has a soft skill set on managing relationships - so think about teaching architects.
• Rapid shallow enthusiasm - that's unfortunately our audience.
• Ruttger - dutchchain - odyssey - climate focus. Dutch Royal Family supports him. 3rd or 4th in line, King's bro, business school guy. Entrepreneurial stuff, ecosystem stuff. Solopreneur but connected.
• Seed Home 2 Planning

Thu Aug 20, 2020

• 38:28 - open source guillotine. Guarantee front page of Boing-Boing for 3 months.

• NODE
• Start talking about SDGs - for foundation funding. But I still think this is to be bootstrapped.
• Jay Cousins - lives in egypt, teaches peeps how to prototype. Context Craft - design prototyping for community context in Egypt.
• - Smari
• - Family Office - Gwen -
• - Riversimple
• Ruttger von Zeuder - Odyssey - Dutch
• Node - https://node.eco/ - useful as a real deal VC funded vs crowd
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Marga
• Academic/wizard - nandamarga.
• Intelligent management of task queue. My task is figuring out riddles of the universe.
• Generating context. Wizards create context.
• People are more hierarchical than they think.
• https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html
• FB - ShopHacks - pictures of peoples' toolbox.
• Market for precise description
• Consequential
• Ethical Enclave. Ethical enterprise communities.
• Automated provisioning (or procurement); automated morality
• Asset Passport
• MakerDAO - https://makerdao.com/en/team
• Distribution of power leads to idiots in charge
• https://mattereum.com/about/ - legally enforceable settlements in 160 countries.
• Critical Infrastructure Mapping -
• New project - Avalanche - open source technocrats. Ehical? Tool VC. https://www.avalabs.org/news. Emin Gun Sirer
• Ethereum - not spiritually correct
• https://gizmodo.com/garbage-crypto-product-dies-immediately-after-launch-1844718822
• Flash loans crash - https://www.coindesk.com/the-defi-flash-loan-attack-that-changed-everything
• https://defipulse.com/
• Shiftpod - Hexayurt - https://shiftpod.com/shiftpod/
• https://gridbeam.xyz/

Consultant, cultural creator, and founder of the Hexayurt project.