Devon Zuegel

But then we ended up getting to this place where we thought, oh, everything has to be controlled. Everything has to be planned. The width of your hallways, the distance of your house from the road. And we ended up, I think, overdoing it, frankly.

But then we ended up getting to this place where we thought, oh, everything has to be controlled. Everything has to be planned. The width of your hallways, the distance of your house from the road. And we ended up, I think, overdoing it, frankly.

I think it's important for us to revisit what should be planned and what should be left to a more organic process where people can solve their problems on their own.

I think it's important for us to revisit what should be planned and what should be left to a more organic process where people can solve their problems on their own.

My basic framework is that there are some core decisions like making sure that everybody has access to clean water and that there are reasonable transportation networks throughout a city that allow things to be connected that do have to be planned in advance. But things like what color do you paint your house, especially for a big city, doesn't necessarily have to be so controlled.

My basic framework is that there are some core decisions like making sure that everybody has access to clean water and that there are reasonable transportation networks throughout a city that allow things to be connected that do have to be planned in advance. But things like what color do you paint your house, especially for a big city, doesn't necessarily have to be so controlled.

I do think that you might have subsets of communities that still choose to do that. Sort of like a federal system, you want to have as many decisions pushed to the lowest level as possible so that the local level can make choices, but then also recognizing that there are some that require a more global solution, but always trying to push it down to that local level as much as possible.

I do think that you might have subsets of communities that still choose to do that. Sort of like a federal system, you want to have as many decisions pushed to the lowest level as possible so that the local level can make choices, but then also recognizing that there are some that require a more global solution, but always trying to push it down to that local level as much as possible.

Oh, I've learned so much from Michael Nielsen. I think probably the number one biggest thing from Michael is always having a sense of wonder in everything I do and everything I see and I learn. I was traveling in Japan last year and Michael happened to be in Japan as well. So we ended up hanging around Japan for a while together and

Oh, I've learned so much from Michael Nielsen. I think probably the number one biggest thing from Michael is always having a sense of wonder in everything I do and everything I see and I learn. I was traveling in Japan last year and Michael happened to be in Japan as well. So we ended up hanging around Japan for a while together and

And he was doing a world tour at the time of all these different iconic places. Like in Japan, he was going to bamboo forests. Also, he went to Hiroshima to see where the bomb was dropped. And he went to all these world historic places. It made me realize that I had gotten jaded where I thought, oh, there's all these tourists. That's a tourist spot. I'm not going to go there.

And he was doing a world tour at the time of all these different iconic places. Like in Japan, he was going to bamboo forests. Also, he went to Hiroshima to see where the bomb was dropped. And he went to all these world historic places. It made me realize that I had gotten jaded where I thought, oh, there's all these tourists. That's a tourist spot. I'm not going to go there.

But seeing Michael go like, no, this is one of the most important places in the world for world history. In the case of Hiroshima, it was the place where one of the first atomic bombs was dropped. That is an inflection point in world history. And.

But seeing Michael go like, no, this is one of the most important places in the world for world history. In the case of Hiroshima, it was the place where one of the first atomic bombs was dropped. That is an inflection point in world history. And.

I think basically Michael has reminded me to not be jaded and always see the wonder and how special things are, as opposed to getting into a more perhaps cynical worldview.

I think basically Michael has reminded me to not be jaded and always see the wonder and how special things are, as opposed to getting into a more perhaps cynical worldview.

Yeah, so this is the really fun event I host with some friends each year called Frontier Camp. And we take about 120 people that we admire to go camping for a weekend in Northern California. And the theme is frontier technology. We define that really broadly.

Yeah, so this is the really fun event I host with some friends each year called Frontier Camp. And we take about 120 people that we admire to go camping for a weekend in Northern California. And the theme is frontier technology. We define that really broadly.

It includes things from gene editing and supersonic flight, but also people who are working on the frontier of California land use policy and things like that. Basically, anyone who's pushing the frontier of what they're doing is fair game with a particular focus on hard tech.

It includes things from gene editing and supersonic flight, but also people who are working on the frontier of California land use policy and things like that. Basically, anyone who's pushing the frontier of what they're doing is fair game with a particular focus on hard tech.