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I don't go to pools. I don't drink margaritas.

Somehow here I am, sitting at a pool with a margarita in hand, editing my 82nd draft of a plan for the future of the human race.

My girlfriend is worried people might think I'm crazy.

“Baby,” she posits, “most people just want to make it through the day. Who really gives a shit whether humans survive in 200 years?”

She's kinda right. Fortunately, tequila takes the edge off.

For the past decade, I've been obsessed with solving a problem that very few people seem to care about. And that, in my estimation, is the biggest problem of all. But who I am to say?

Perhaps humans are destined to fail. Like so many other species before us, perhaps we're simply meant to approach a natural, unavoidable end. Maybe we deserve it.

But what if….what if we adjusted a few things, turned a few knobs, and set off in new directions. What if we could not only survive, but create an existence more exquisite than we can even imagine?! What if.

These are the ideas that consume me. I can't stop thinking about them. Dreaming about them. I burn inside with an ambition that feels out of place in the early 21st century.

We plan everything else in life: when we wake up, when we start work, meetings, social events, marriage, kids, career progression, financial goals, vacations, purchases, war, retirement, death — everything.

Why don't we have a plan for our collective survival?

If the human race were a stock on an...

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