Thoughts on Downtown Project
In no particular order.
- Downtown Project, Tony Hsieh’s giant bold attempt to transform downtown Las Vegas into the next Austin meets tech-utopia slash Zapposland, just blew my mind.
- He’s definitely channeling Walt Disney a bit here, with a modern twist.
- Paul Carr is starting his new company there.
- Michael Arrington is also quite interested in it.
- I have a long and deep interest in the futility and audacity of planned communities (grew up in Woodbridge, CA, part of the OC, and also read Celebration, Death and Life of Great American Cities and any article or book written about cities built from scratch for a couple years there.)
- I’ve been to Dubai, in the UAE, and it was creepy, but speak about ambitious:
- Sometimes I wonder how all of my interests intersect.
- Somehow it all relates to self-improvement, health-improvement, relationship-improvement, world-improvement?
- At least I know that I’m somewhat obsessed with the core idea of improvement on any scale.
- Wouldn’t it be great to have the opportunity to build a city from your own values and ideas?
- Most of us are restricted to being mere masters of our own domain, if barely, much less masters of the environment on that scale.
- Master of My Domain was a great Seinfeld episode.
- I briefly flirted with the idea of suggesting that we move Habit Labs HQ to Downtown Vegas. Warmer, closer to SF, part of something very interesting, closer to my family… but still… Vegas. Maybe in my next life.
- Timing is everything.
- I should at least go visit next time I’m down there, right?
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Jen has me thinking...exactly what I’d do there,
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