For large companies

Hire people who give a damn—and who won’t look at their phone at work, because they can’t, because we banned phones. Open an office or innovation lab in New Athens and gain access to old-school young people: broadly educated, curious, disciplined, and with roots so they won’t quit after 6 months.

If you manage workforce expansion or readiness, or have a moral aversion to replacing your workforce with robots, we want to talk with you. Email us.

Hire people who give a damn and who won’t look at their phone at work.

Open an office in New Athens and gain access to old-school young people: broadly educated, curious, disciplined, and with roots so they won’t quit after 6 months. And they won’t look at their phone on the job because they can’t, because smartphones are banned in the entire city.

. New Athens residents will be dramatically better workers

Digital technology is good for building digital technology. Building real things in the real world, or helping real people in real life, is a different story. Smartphones and AI help us go fast online, but slow us down in the physical world—because screens are designed to keep us looking at them, not our surroundings.