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The Obvious Interconnection Between Digital Cities, AI, Blockchain, and Psychedelics

We are rapidly approaching the most important transition in human history and several factors are coming to shake the collective belief…

2 min readMar 24, 2023

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The Real Reason Amazon Just Called Everyone Back to the Office — you won’t believe how scary it is.

With its recent demand that employees come back to the office (BTO), Amazon just tipped its hand and showed how bad the brewing real…

4 min readMar 7, 2023

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The Kift Journey Continues

Three years after launching Kift, and explorations in dynamic communal living, we have decided to end the service and close the business.

3 min readOct 6, 2023

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Who Killed the City?

The Internet’s affect on the Built Environment

1 min readAug 10, 2023

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Who Killed the City?

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What If the Future of Cities… Wasn’t Cities?

That was a tweet I posted the other day thinking about how it looked like the demand for office-centric cities was about to drop through…

5 min readMay 19, 2023

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Signs of the Urban Doom Loop — A Link Repo

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9 min readApr 6, 2023

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Everyone I Know is Following Their Dreams

Since covid hit, I’ve known dozens of people who tossed their careers aside and decided to do something radical — pursue an activity that…

4 min readMar 7, 2023

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Decentralized City

So I asked my friend Jeremy Kirshbaum’s two-word Future Forecasting AI to generate a short forecast on “Decentralized City” It gave me the…

1 min readFeb 27, 2023

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I’m here for the future

If I was only thinking about now, it would be easy. I’d be in some spectacular natural spot, with friends — eat, dance, make love…

4 min readFeb 14, 2023

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What do Kift NFTs have to do with Cities of the Future?

It’s 2022 and cities are obsolete. They were once the centers for culture, work, community, knowledge sharing, goods and services. But now…

3 min readJun 2, 2022

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Colin O'Donnell

Colin O'Donnell

Thinking about the coevolution of people, technology, and cities. CEO at Kift.com former founder at Intersection/ LinkNYC/ Control Group

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