Tech entrepreneurs spent a month living together in a pop-up community, building solar installations and water-filtration systems while hosting talks from guests like digital minister Audrey Tang. The idea was to spark spontaneous collaboration through everyday encounters on shared streets.
You've been at Edge Esmeralda. For people who have no idea what that is, could you give us, like, the 1-minute rundown?
It's a hop-up village in which they did not actually build a village. It is just a normal city where a bunch of highly agentic tech weirdos move to be each other's neighbors and hang out for a month.
And, like, do projects and—
Everything from— we just did normal meetings there. People built solar, water filtration systems. Someone built a solar A-frame. Talks— Audrey Tang was there, which is really exciting. And mostly I think the point is that you're walking down the street and you run into these other people who are building and doing very cool things.
Yeah, I've been hearing about this for a couple years and now I need to go.
