In case anyone was wondering what kind of mindset inspires the leader of a group backed by a cabal of tech billionaires to secretively snap up farmland in the Central Valley for “a new city”, this passage from the LA Times has got you:

In a self-help book he co-wrote, Sramek says if given the chance to give his younger self a bit of advice, he would quote Ayn Rand: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

(Love that snooty semicolon!)