This site is where I’m going to begin to organize material for the oft-mentioned, never begun book, roughly entitled “How to Save The World And Not Die Trying” (title subject to change.)

Gupta Option’s first piece is about the limits of American government spending  to impact the very poor, from a risk management perspective. It’s pretty rough and ready but I wanted to break new ground today - there’ll be a bunch of “Greatest Hits” from the archives of the last year coming up in the next few weeks, in greatly revised and edited forms of course - and it was important to me to start building the context for updating those works in public.

I’m convinced that this business model problem: charities can’t absorb risk, and risk is how we do engineering, is at the core of the next steps of solving global problems.

Nobody has solved it for music, yet. Maybe it takes a bigger problem.  How do we split the risk of investing in expensive development projects without large, centralized, slow agencies in the middle grinding progress to a halt?

Silicon Valley is our model here - what’s the Appropriate Technology Silicon Valley?