Where technologists confront geopolitics
El Salvador, 2026 | Version 0.1 — An Open Signal
Ten years ago, the technologists who saw what was coming in American politics were dismissed—until 2025 proved their foresight.
In five years, those who go down the geopolitical rabbit hole will be proven just as right.
We are living through a quiet wager. As powers clash and narratives collapse, a new order is not declared, but reshuffled—in the shadows. The industrial engine stalled. Productivity peaked, then drifted. Money detached from means and meaning.
And yet, too many in tech still move as if the old rules apply:
Optimizing. Scaling. Fundraising.
While the map beneath our feet turns to sand.
So I'm going down the rabbit hole.
Not as an expert. Not with a solution deck.
But as a scout: tracking the signals between the fracture lines.
I call this in-between space The Third Reality.
Not another conference. Not a podcast. Not a Substack.
In a post-ChatGPT world, where knowledge floods every feed, the rarest currency isn't information, but clarity, acquired instantly.
Human conversation—curated yet improvised—is how we get there.
From a quiet room. No ticket tiers. No consensus theater.
Just a circle of the most formidable minds—people you'd never see on the same stage.
Outside the algorithm. Outside your priors.
Across borders, disciplines, and belief systems. Asking the unspoken questions out loud.
Crossed wires. Unexpected pairings.
Tension, with respect.
And clarity, once tasted, is addictive.
This isn't politics. It's geopolitics—where infrastructure speaks louder than ideology.
Others call themselves Davos 2.0, but preach only to their choir.
The Third Reality orbits outside the echo chamber, into uncharted waters.
It's a geopolitical alignment crossing silicon, sovereignty, and the post-dollar world.
The first Western-led summit built to engage the global majority, not just the Western mindshare.
You may not remember our names. But you'll remember what cracked open.
A private brief, drawing from minds I've handpicked across years of work at the seams of technology and geopolitics.
All leading toward a quiet gathering—for the unmapped.
You're seeing this because you're one of the early (fewer than 100) I want to shape this with.
Not a pitch—just a probe. I'd like you to share with me:
Consider me a geopolitical scout—for technologists, tuning to early tremors.
Let's see what we uncover.
The Third Reality – El Salvador, 2026
Private, by design.
Contact the host → maggiexiao@protonmail.com