Patri Friedman

Most of my life these days centers around my family and my role as the Executive Director of The Seasteading Institute, a small research organization whose mission is "To establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems". Please consider joining TSI and helping us increase competition in government.

My views on politics are somewhat odd: I am a libertarian who laments current systems and dreams of better ones, yet I believe I escape many of the pitfalls of naive idealism. The best introduction to my views is my lead essay in the April 2009 issue of Cato Unbound. A longer and more detailed compedium of my views can be found on my politics page.

I am a prolific blogger: A list of my blogs.

Some other useful material:

• Tortuga - I helped found this Mountain View retrofit cohousing community. As of fall 2008, we have 13 adults and 3 kids. If you are interested in cohousing in Silicon valley, read about joining our community. Or email me for invites to our parties.
• My (non-mainstream) views on diet and exercise.
• Picasa web albums for my pictures.
• Some of My prose writing.
• The ultimate in vanity: My wikipedia entry.
• I am a Board member for 2009 of Humanity+ (formerly the World Transhumanist Association - the latter URL is currently the main site).

This page reflects who I am in my 30s. You can also go to my old home page, which reflects who I was in my 20s, and has lots more crap on it.