Hello fellow Silklisters, (not sure if that is the right name, but has a nice ring to it)
Guten Tag! It’s an absolute pleasure to be here and part of this awesome community. Thank you for having me here Udhay :) A quick intro—I'm Yesh. I was born in Bangalore, but Berlin is home now. I'm someone who's pro-humanity and a techno-optimist but with a dash of healthy pessimism (keeps things interesting!). I’m constantly asking: how do we help humanity not just survive, but truly thrive in the long term? By day, I work as a project manager at ALLFED <http://ALLFED.info>, where we focus on global food resilience (preparing for events that could take out 10% or more of the global food supply—think nuclear winter or other fun apocalyptic scenarios). By night, I channel my engineering and physics background into designing hyper-stable structures for satellite <https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-third-generation> applications. For the past 8 months, I’ve been working on something a bit more experimental and communal—ZuGrama <http://zugrama.org>. It’s a pop-up village in India that I’m co-building with another fellow Silklister, Dr. Anish Mohammed. Think of it as a place where the world’s brightest minds—scientists, engineers, cryptographers, builders—don’t just work together but live together, collaborate deeply, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. It’s inspired by Zuzalu <https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/10/06/why-i-built-zuzalu/> (which Vitalik Buterin kicked off), and it pulls from Balaji’s concept of network states. It feels like the right time for these kinds of experiments, with similar projects popping up in other corners of the world — 1 <https://balajis.com/p/network-school>, 2 <https://vitalia.city/>. What are your thoughts on pop-up villages or these “networked state” concepts? Do they excite you? If you could be part of one, what kind of experiences would you want to have? Looking forward to diving into some awesome conversations with you all! Best, Yesh
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