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Edge Esmeralda: My Experience - Healdsburg Tribune

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As you may have seen, I wrote a story for this week’s issue of the Healdsburg Tribune about local impressions of Edge Esmeralda, the “popup village” that came to Healdsburg for the entire month of June. This elaborate conference-meets-festival brought hundreds of international “techno optimists” — between 300 and 600 on any given day — to the hotels, event spaces and streets of our tiny town. They were mostly young people, most with a shared goal of leveraging modern technology and ancient wisdom to save the world, or at least make it a better place to live. Healdsburg’s population grew by more than 5% on certain days this month. Yet many locals barely seemed to notice the newcomers were here. During Week Two of the event, Zara Stone, a reporter for the San Francisco Standard, popped in for a day and wrote a pretty amazing recap. She called the story “Hackers on holiday: They’re building the city of the future from a summer camp in Sonoma.” TBH, it’s the piece I wish I’d written — a gr

Local Business Briefs UNCONFERENCE An Edge Esmeralda talk hosted by the Convergent Research organization at a Healdsburg hotel. As you may have seen, I wrote a story for this week’s issue of the Healdsburg Tribune about local impressions of Edge Esmeralda, the “popup village” that came to Healdsburg for the entire month of June. This elaborate conference-meets-festival brought hundreds of international “techno optimists” — between 300 and 600 on any given day — to the hotels, event spaces and streets of our tiny town. They were mostly young people, most with a sha

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