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Coming from the land of water—California’s original pioneering technology—and excited to venture North to this strange frontier, this wild third wave of the web, I wrote an open letter to the Edge Esmeralda community. At the height of the Great Depression, we built the Colorado River Aqueduct. Not just an engineering marvel, but a civic leap of faith. Modular construction, new concrete chemistries, and institutions like Kaiser were forged in that desert. What today is equal in ambition to the Colorado River Aqueduct? What equivalently forges trust beyond any single city to fuel the creation of a globe striding Megaregion? (Not stablecoins. Not even AI.) Not looking for clever answers—just inviting your curiosity. Your fire. Your half-baked ideas that scare you to share. Let’s build bridges between worlds and dream the impossible dream. Read the open letter here: https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/an-open-letter-to-the-edge-esmeralda-community-keepers-of-light-in-liminal-spaces
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Coming from the land of water—California’s original pioneering technology—and excited to venture North to this strange frontier, this wild third wave of the web, I wrote an open letter to the Edge Esmeralda community. At the height of the Great Depression, we built the Colorado River Aqueduct. Not just an engineering marvel, but a civic leap of faith. Modular construction, new concrete chemistries, and institutions like Kaiser were forged in that desert. What today is equal in ambition to the Colorado River Aqueduct? What equivalently forges trust beyond any single city to fuel the creation of a globe striding Megaregion? (Not stablecoins. Not even AI.) Not looking for clever answers—just inviting your curiosity. Your fire. Your half-baked ideas that scare you to share. Let’s build bridges between worlds and dream the impossible dream. Read the open letter here: https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/an-open-letter-to-the-edge-esmeralda-community-keepers-of-light-in-liminal-spaces
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The Gurus of the Gram and the Waning of the Church We live in curious times. As pews across the country stand half-empty—once filled with the hush of collective prayer and the swell of hymn—we turn instead to the soft glow of our screens. Today, only about 30% of U.S. adults attend religious services weekly, a steep drop from 42% just two decades ago. The church, long a central gathering place, now shares space with digital pulpits where new prophets preach in stories and reels. Their gospels are bite-sized: one-minute reflections on discipline, gratitude, self-love, resilience. The messages are clean, personal, often compelling. And they resonate—perhaps not as commandments, but as tools. Tools for coping, for centering, for meaning-making in a world that feels increasingly fragmented.
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