Meia Alsup

Some things about me:

• Grew up in CA - loved it, and then I discovered one can live without a car
• Studied computer science and materials things at MIT, grateful to have made incredible friends who I love and inspire me
• I do software and sometimes bio / AI things in NYC, where I am grateful for public transit, arts and culture, and to be surrounded by people chasing all kinds of different dreams!
• Currently learning from the amazing people at SPC
• Started a company
• I spent some time conducting organic inspections for the USDA
• I have spent a bunch of time thinking about agriculture, food systems, the electric grid, renewables, genomics, artificial wombs, eating disorder recovery, AI therapy, recruiting
• not to be confused with gen Z Alsup, the smarter and funnier one

Some things I am curently thinking about. If you have any insights I would love if you sent me an email with your thoughts, or to grab coffee!:

• Do all parents want their kids to have a better life than they did? What if their life is already great? In an abundant world and society, what do you teach your kids to strive for?
• What needs to happen to implement the rail + property model in the US?
• Who is working on artificial wombs? Can I help? When will it be ready?
• I don't care about luxury goods. I just want to live a car-less life with community and loved ones around me. For some reason, in the US this is priced as a luxury good. Therefore to my great disdain there is in fact a luxury good I want. How do we make cities the affordable default and do away with the soulless parking lot nature of suburbia?

Some things I believe or have spent a lot of time thinking about:

• Today regenerative agriculture is a cute thing dedicated individual farmers do at small scale, while the masses are fed by the harvests of mass-market mono-culture operations. Plants, like all life, thrive in diverse polyculture environments. Today all supply chains and equipment are designed for monoculture systems. What if equipment were redesigned around polyculture systems - so we could have a diverse soil-friendly ecosystem that is also more human friendly, that still works within capitalism. If anyone is working on this, I would love to do everything I can to help.