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Anastasia Kalinina and Gary Sheng

Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Participants: Gary Sheng, Anastasia Kalinina, Pion Medvedeva Emails: pion@yourjustice.life, anastasia@restate.global

Summary​

Discussion covered Gary's background, current vision and projects (including the "American Davos" initiative), potential collaboration areas with Anastasia, and shared philosophy on systems change.

Transcript​

Personal Updates & Background​

  • Recently graduated top of class from Gauntlet AI engineering bootcamp
  • Selected by billionaire Joe Liemandt (one of Texas's wealthiest) to lead cultural/political strategy
  • Previous experience:
    • Worked at Google as software engineer (started 2015)
    • Led social media activism reaching ~1B impressions in 2017
    • Founded civic education program that trained 2,000+ students across 70+ countries
    • Organized major crypto/tech events in Montenegro, Istanbul, and Denver

Current Vision & Projects​

  • Leading initiative to create "American Davos" in Austin, Texas
  • Focus on aggregating:
    • World's top intellectual talent
    • Capital to fund solutions to humanity's hardest problems
  • Goal: Help 1B kids access personalized AI tutors
  • Timeline: First major event planned for July 2025
  • Strategic approach: Building human coordination layer to enable:
    • Nuclear renaissance
    • Personal AI tutors
    • New territory investment
    • European space race advancement

Collaboration with Anastasia​

  • Anastasia's current work:
    • Leading research/consultancy on innovative policy and system change
    • Working with governments from France to Saudi Arabia
    • Developing new economic, social, and education models
    • Creating "conscious Davos" events
  • Potential collaboration areas:
    • Virtual state institute development
    • Policy reform implementation
    • Network state and pop-up city initiatives
    • Connecting emerging ideas with current government needs

Philosophy & Approach​

  • Emphasis on "flow state" vs "network state" thinking
  • Target audience: ~1.5-2% of population who:
    • Believe in human potential
    • Maintain abundance mindset
    • Show high agency
    • Actively connect people/resources
  • Evolution from previous activism:
    • Moved from anger-based engagement to positive impact
    • Overcame money-related trauma
    • Integrated spiritual perspective into systems change
  • Focus on creating "miraculous collisions" between high-frequency individuals

Original chat transcript: https://notes.granola.ai/p/ffb0a5ac-a6ea-490e-86dc-6ae04ef495fc