Sitting at the bar in the exclusive Delta Club at Citi Field, where his beloved Mets were in the process of sweeping the Yankees in the Subway Series, the political fixer and venture capitalist Bradley Tusk described his designs on the future.

He talked up his $10 million philanthropic campaign to build a system that would allow all Americans to vote on their phones; so far, the campaign has funded pilot programs in seven states. He enthused over an investment proposal from a Native American tribe to transform its South Carolina reservation into the “Delaware of web3.” He pointed out a massive blue billboard in the outfield advertising the blockchain firm Tezos, one of many financial technology companies he advises.

But his latest project is set firmly in the present and relies on very old technology. Mr. Tusk, 48, has opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore — one that he is marketing as family-owned and independent, a shift away from his longstanding identity as one of New York City’s premier corporate fixers.

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