Elle Griffin

Salt Lake City, Utah

Author at The Novelleist

Founder at The Elysian

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A self-governing forest

5 days ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is for TERRAFORM, an essay collection about the future of our planet. Support the project by collecting the digital or print edition đđ»Imagine walking through a forest that has the same rights to exist as you and me. Imagine the forest cannot be sold or harmed or killed the same way that humans cannot be sold or harmed or killed. (That is to say, not without consequences.)Now imagine it self-governs.
An online version of Da Vinci's journal?

1 week ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

Research is one of my favorite leisure activities. I love cozying up with a text, taking notes, following research rabbit holes to understand it better, and thinking through my own ideas about it. Sometimes that thinking becomes an essay, often it doesn’t, but I thought it would be fun to start sharing the notes from the margins of my research as well as annotated texts of the literature I’m studying.
A Wild Live with Elle Griffin on "How to publish a book on Substack" and creating a utopian collapse

1 week ago | sarahwilson.substack.com | Sarah Wilson |Elle Griffin

Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with recorded in an BnB in Marseilles after a 18km hike in The Callanques. My phone is sitting a top a toaster, propped up by a sugar canister. Ever professional…I’ve been following Elle’s work for a bit. At first because her utopian take on collapse challenged me when I first encountered it.
We can terraform the Earth-not just Mars

2 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is for TERRAFORM, an essay collection about the future of our planet. Support the project by collecting the digital or print edition 👇🏻Terraforming Mars has long been a trope of science fiction. Could tiny particles injected into the planet’s atmosphere warm the planet, melt its ice caps, and turn it into a habitable planet? Something that’s long interested me: Could we terraform Earth too? Could we make the parts of our world that are currently uninhabitable, habitable?
TERRAFORM: An essay collection about the future of our planet

2 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

• None Terraform is a new essay collection featuring six writers exploring the future of our planet. • None You can support the project by purchasing the digital or print pamphlet here. • None Join our TERRAFORM literary salon discussion. Paid subscribers can join for free. RSVP here. I’m excited to introduce TERRAFORM, our third cooperative media project for t…
Newsletter bundles don't work

3 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin |Evan Armstrong

I’d always wanted to create a newsletter bundle until I met . When we met a few years ago, he was an early employee at Substack and even wrote his own Substack newsletter, until it was bought by Every and he went to work for the newsletter bundle. Back then, readers like myself could subscribe for $200/year and access 5-10 writers, each writing independent newsletters for the bundle. The idea was that for one subscription fee, readers could subscribe to many writers. But it didn’t work.
Our community round has opened-let's fund this book!

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

We’ve raised nearly $60,000 in investment pledges for my book We Should Own The Economy. Learn more about the project here. Our community round is open—time to confirm your investment! Click the link in your email to confirm your investment or click here to check your confirmation status. Join our call tonight! We’ll be discussing the book, the crowdfund, and how we can build the future of capitalism. RSVP here.
How Silicon Valley got rich

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is research for my book We Should Own The Economy, which I’m writing in public. Readers can still invest in the project and earn a share of the revenue when it sells 👇🏻In 1957, eight engineers left their former semiconductor company and convinced Sherman Fairchild to back a new one. This was unusual at the time; entrepreneurship wasn’t a readily available path, and angel investment a rarity.
Why a millionaire real estate mogul bought Skinwalker Ranch

1 month ago | utahbusiness.com | Elle Griffin

“What we are witnessing could be evidence that we live in a multi-dimensional universe. That we are not alone. That we may be interacting with other entities, other intelligence,” says Brandon Fugal, real estate mogul and investor in the now infamous Skinwalker Ranch. Once owned by hotel financier and billionaire Robert Bigelow, the ranch is a 512-acre parcel of land in Utah’s Uinta Basin long reputed to be rife with paranormal activity.
Who should control AI?

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is research for a book I’m writing called We Should Own The Economy, readers can invest in the project and earn a share of profits when it’s done 👇🏻When OpenAI launched in 2015, they did so with an impressive mission: To develop AI that would benefit humanity by automating repetitive work or curing cancer, but without unintended consequences that might harm humanity, like rapidly displacing jobs or trying to kill us all.