“I spent time in nature, pushed myself outside my comfort zone, made amazing new friends, and sharpened my vision.” Akshaya Dinesh reflects on the Edge City Fellowship in Patagonia, where she found balance between health and building at the frontier. Blog below 👇

“I’m grateful to Edge City for believing in my work and giving me a space to trace all of these intersections, all in the lovely, supportive context of the Fellows Cohort.” Rhea spent 4 weeks in Patagonia exploring how culture reveals itself across cities. Blog 👇

Constellation just raised ~$10M to build foundation models of the human brain. They launched at Edge Esmeralda 2025, collected neural data on-site, closed their lead investor, and assembled their founding team. All in one month. Huge congrats Avery + team!

A month in California alongside 500+ curious and high agency people from the frontiers of tech, science & culture ☀️ Join us Edge Esmeralda 2026, May 30th - June 27th. Come for a few days, weeks, or the whole month. Ticket prices increase every other week! 👇

We’re hiring the production team for Edge Esmeralda 2026 ☀️ Join us in Healdsburg, CA this June to help run a monthlong popup village built for deep work and collaboration. If you’re experienced and can commit for the full month, apply to the open roles below! 👇

Edge City Patagonia, through Jeffrey Sun’s lens ☀️ A month of building together at the frontier of tech, art, and culture.

Here are 5 examples of what d/acc looks like in practice ✨ In collaboration with N:)DES, we selected 5 projects for SHIFT Grants Round 002 to support builders working on real-world resilience and decentralized, defensive tech. What this cohort is building 👇

At Edge City Patagonia, Brian Kelleher set out to build an AI pipeline to tackle Erdős math problems as part of the Fellowship program. He succeeded and left with lasting friendships and a renewed appreciation for the human side of frontier work. Read his reflections 👇

New ways of living require new societal structures. And space to fully explore consciousness within them. Norman Ohler on nation states at Edge City Patagonia. Full podcast 👇

We published our annual Community Letter with what we’ve learned from another year of building a society incubator. In 2025, we've started to evolve from a container of community to a catalyst for startups, research & new movements. Here are 7 of our learnings from this year ☀️

“If this tool works, my child will go to school every day again.” Edge City Fellow Maxwell Opondo wrote down his reflections on building assistive tech in Patagonia and how talking to the local community reshaped his work in unexpected ways. Read his story (link below) 👇

Fresh off appearances on Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman, Norman Ohler stopped by Edge City Patagonia for a mind-expanding 90-minute conversation. We dive deep into the hidden role of drugs in history: from methamphetamine fueling the Blitzkrieg and Hitler's own dependencies, to the CIA's MKUltra experiments that derailed L... Show more

“What’s one thing you used to believe that you don’t anymore?” That question, asked during a sauna session at Edge City Patagonia, sparked a month of reflection for Emma. Her essay is a reminder that creating & building begins with curiosity and agency ✨