The Elysian
Elle Griffin, Jeff Fong, Matthew Prebeg, Michael Skinner, Eman Zabi, Mark Lutter, Sondre Rasch, Madison Karas, Julien 'Andrew' Starr, Ziyaad BhoratWriting about collective ownership of cities, companies, and our world. Exploring a utopian future through essay collections & print pamphlets.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 501 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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On the desire to live in a cabin in the woods
On an airplane recently I watched the Colorado River carve through the mountains in places without a road beside it. I want to live there, I thought—to hole up in a cabin in the woods. To let the world do all the crazy things it will do wit...
Why do I romanticize 18th-century chores?
Was churning butter a beautiful way to spend the day or a chore to be automated away?
Sometimes I watch Outlander and wish I lived in the 1700s. The book and series follow a time-traveling woman from the 20th century into the 18th, where s...
This sewing machine powers AI
“If everything is automated, how should I spend my leisure time?”
I’m asking an AI, but not Claude or ChatGPT. This one is trained on the works of William Morris, a textile designer during industrialized London, and a socialist who raged a...
Even Christopher Nolan prefers 70mm film
It was when I was sitting with a friend, sharing memes through bouts of silence and chortling, that I noticed the reality of what we were really doing. We were sat a cushion apart, sending every image out of the room, through a server miles...
This sewing machine powers AI—my next pamphlet drop is here
I am very for technological progress societally—yes, let’s cure the diseases and automate the cars and advance scientific understanding. But I am extremely dissatisfied with it personally—I think it’s eroded social life with the social medi...
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Exploring a utopian future through essay collections & print pamphlets. Center for Land Economics Fellow, Roots of Progress Fellow. OSV grantee.
Cities, technology, and the future | Board Chair @ YIMBY Action, Board Advisor @ the Center for Land Economics, RPI Fellow
First one to ask why and the last one to let it go
Exploring new ways of working, living, and being in the cities of the future.
Recovering entrepreneur. I write about AI, philosophy, innovation, and occasionally my cat.
Building cities
Founder and CEO of SafetyWing, building a global social safety net.
I work in spaces that bring together journalism, technology and social impact, and sometimes explore other things, too. https://madraekaras.com/
Starting new countries. Founding Director of the Startup States Society, a Geneva-based think tank advancing treaty-based state formation. Personal: starr.mc. Startup States: startupstates.swiss.
Ambition is equal parts whimsy and wise Imagination @ Mozilla , instruments @ Melo Avenue Capital. Find me on https://thinking.ziyaadbhorat.com/
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