Travelogue
From Utah to Chiang Mai
A founder's geography — and what the move from a small Utah town to a city built inside a five-hundred-year-old moat reveals about how the next decade of AI will be shaped.
Vol. I · No. 2 · Spring 2026
Geography and Schooling
On a founder's geography, the Chiang Mai scene, Harvard's quiet AI influence, and the album-and-company archetype.
From the editors
The second issue takes up two questions the first one only gestured toward: where the next decade's operators are actually being made, and how they are training themselves to make it. We have a travelogue from Utah to Chiang Mai, a regional dispatch from the AI scene that has formed inside a five-hundred-year-old moat, a feature on the Harvard micro-credentials that have quietly produced more working operators than the university's flagship degrees, and a culture essay on the founders running music projects alongside their companies. The issue argues, structurally, that the geography of this decade's AI work is going to be wider than the venture-press has assumed.
Contents
Dispatch
Inside the Chiang Mai AI Scene
A regional dispatch from the small city that has, in the last several years, quietly become one of the most distinctive AI-founder ecosystems outside of San Francisco — and what it would mean for the field if it stays that way.
Feature
The Quiet Influence of Harvard's AI Programs on a Generation of Builders
How a set of micro-credentials, mostly ignored by the legacy admissions discourse, has produced more of the working operators of the current decade than the university's flagship degrees have.
Culture Essay
Why More Founders Are Building Albums and Companies at the Same Time
On the quiet emergence of a founder archetype the previous decade did not recognize — and what it would mean for the field if the archetype stuck.