We ran the first Zee Prime Residency at Edge Esmeralda 2026 ☀️
For a month, ten deep tech founders lived and built together in one house, embedded in a popup village of scientists and builders.
Curated with @ZeePrimeCap, the VC with no rules.
The recap ↓
Beyond the house, Kai Mills (@kaimicahmills) spoke on the immortality industrial complex, Jessica Frick on manufacturing in microgravity, and @camboyce on building UFO tech.
The cohort joined Long Journey for a workshop, mixer, and four co-working days.
It’s almost like earliest forms of democracy reflected this, and the unstable equilibrium that exists today is resultant of the (recent) radical departure from those designs…
Edmond Naim, governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank, barricaded himself in his office for 8 months during their civil war as he received death threats from both sides for maintaining Central Bank Independence
as far as masculine “initiation” rituals go, the tough thing is that you cannot initiate yourself
e.g. a 30 day cold shower challenge is gesturing at such a ritual, but it falls short because it’s maintained by conscious intention
whereas a true initiation is when you are thrown well beyond your intentions - where you are forced to submit to something larger than you, persist via sheer will, and thus encounter the impenetrable confidence within (which you could call the Self)
a meditation retreat can’t do this. a carefully curated trip to Europe can’t do this
you can consciously choose to sail into a storm, but the storm must take you - it must be inescapable - in order to actually cross the threshold
The manufacturing process for producing >200 million sterile screwworm flies a week can be summarized as creating a “76,000-square-foot artificial wound.”
This is grotesquely fascinating:
Listening to this Shell Game podcast, and it just occurred to me that Corporate Speak turns you into an NPC.
Unconditional platitudes and obfuscation to the point of meaninglessness.
Grizzlies are on the march, onto the prairie where people live. This range expansion into the prairie and front range, is outside of their designated recovery zone under the Endangered Species Act. Otherwise solitary grizzlies moving in groups like this are pretty rare, this is likely what they call a family group, or a couple of mothers with cubs/subadults. The bears expanding beyond the recovery zone are moving fast, 12% increases in range in just 2 years. When they do nonlethal hazing, Montana FWP they use cracker shotgun shells (12 gauge with a loud sound and flash) fired above or close to the bear. They also use paint balls, air horns, spotlights, hoses, maybe dogs. It’s time to delist these bears, turn their management over to the state wildlife agencies, and allow a scientifically informed hunting season. If the intention was to never delist these animals, then honest conversations need to begin to happen with people about what it means to share the landscape with a massive predator. The current model where coastal city NGOs sue for 20 years to prevent federal endangered species law from functioning is dishonest and batshit crazy.
These bills, along with C-22 and C-9 constitute a total erosion in Canada’s basic liberties. They interlock into making Canada essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.