The City of the Dropout

This city is defined by what it leaves behind. It is a place of unlearning, where credentials are traded for direct experience. The streets are paths of "unconnectedness," designed to break the habits of traditional success.

The citizens document their dreams in weekly logs, treating their own lives as open-source projects. They value the strenuous life, the physical drift, the refusal to follow the paved road.

"To find this city," the map says, "you must first leave the university."