From career breakthroughs to professional milestones, explore how Curtis Yarvin made an impact.
Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is the co-founder, alongside Nick Land, of the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx), an anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophy. Yarvin's ideas have gained increasing influence on the American Right, including figures like JD Vance and Peter Thiel.
In 2002, Curtis Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform, which is a decentralized network of personal servers.
In 2002, Yarvin began work on a personal software project that later evolved into the Urbit networked computing platform.
In 2007, Curtis Yarvin began his blog, Unqualified Reservations, to promote his political views.
In 2012, under his pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin gave a talk at the BIL Conference where he introduced the acronym "RAGE," meaning "Retire All Government Employees."
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin co-founded Tlon Corp, based in San Francisco, to further develop Urbit with funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
In 2013, Curtis Yarvin largely stopped updating his blog, Unqualified Reservations, to focus on Urbit.
In 2013, Yarvin co-founded the company Tlon to oversee the Urbit project.
In 2014, Curtis Yarvin largely stopped writing on his blog Unqualified Reservations.
In April 2016, Curtis Yarvin announced that his blog Unqualified Reservations had "completed its mission" and was finished.
In 2016, Yarvin was invited to present on the functional programming aspects of Urbit at LambdaConf 2016, leading to controversy and withdrawals due to his views.
In January 2019, Curtis Yarvin left Tlon, though he retained some intellectual and financial interests in Urbit's development.
In 2019, Curtis Yarvin left Tlon, the company he co-founded to oversee Urbit, while still retaining intellectual and financial interests in the project.
In 2020, Curtis Yarvin started another blog called Gray Mirror of the Nihilist Prince, or simply Gray Mirror, on Substack.
In 2020, Yarvin started his newsletter Gray Mirror, where he continued to express his political views.
In 2024, Curtis Yarvin returned to Tlon in a role described as "wartime C.E.O," which led to the resignation of several top employees.
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