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Vinay Gupta is a man between worlds, and he's got a lot of arms. Born to Scottish and Indian parents, he was programming from a young age. But looking back on the advent of web-culture in the late 90s, he found that he wasn't satisfied with the thought of sitting around on .com — Read the rest

Vinay Gupta (previously) is a polymath engineer/inventor, whose Buckminster Fuller-inspired "hexayurts" can be found all over Burning Man (and my novel Walkaway).

Vinay Gupta, creator the Hexayurt, is selling decks of the Nuclear Poker card game to raise money for materials for the Nuclear Poker Hexayurt Quaddome at EMF Camp 2014.

The superefficient Biolite woodstove will boil water in minutes from twigs and charge your phone while it does it.

The hexayurt is an update on Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome and is a sturdy, affordable, easy-to-build temporary shelter. The geometry has been adjusted slightly to make it easier to build domes from materials like plywood, insulation, plastic, cardboard and more. The hexayurts are made from only one kind of triangle: an 8' x 8' isosceles triangle, rather than the strangely-shaped triangles which are standard for Fuller-style geodesic domes. — Read the rest

Crisiscamp London co-founder Vinay Gupta discusses his "hexayurt" project — as seen in the Worldchanging book — in light of the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, and how relief tents are a "bandaid on a gunshot wound":

Relief tents are a lie: they last for a year.

Vinay Gupta has a fascinating article on WorldChanging that characterizes limited liability corporations as a form of government subsidy (because otherwise, these companies would have to take out expensive liability insurance). Gupta posits that thhis creates a "perverse incentive" to do bad things, like pollute, and wonders aloud what would happen if LLCs were phased out:

What if we phased out limited liability?