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A review post about 4Seas, Chiang Mai

I’m very grateful to be the first Crypto Resident at 4Seas, Chiang Mai. Something resonated here enough for me to extend my stay, and so I plan to work from here for the bulk of this summer. While here, I’ve given talks describing my articulation of 4Seas in its being, and becoming. Below, my observations of this physical node and network state experiment. As part of the residency program, I got 1 month free residency, meals, and community gym access. However, this review is not sponsored.

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My latest - A review of Network School and its bet on permanence out now

I’d visited Network School before, during last year’s conference. May, 2026 was different. I stayed a full month and experienced the place as a daily system rather than a singular event.
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Exit Is Not Enough

This piece explores why "exit" alone can’t solve our problems anymore, and what might come next in a world where states, platforms, and communities are all competing for your allegiance.
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The Three Leviathans: God-State-Network

We talk about God-State-Network as the three leviathans of the 21st century; a new war of worlds fought between ideology, sovereignty, and cryptographically enforced community. But this isn’t a new fight. It’s the oldest political power struggle in civilization, just reanimated in code, fiat, and faith.
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Chokepoints of the ‘Decentralized’ Web

When It Rains: Two market crises landed almost back-to-back in Oct 2025: a violent crypto flash crash and a major AWS outage. One was sparked by geopolitics, the other by technical failure. Both exposed the same thing: hidden chokepoints, fragile trust, and the difference between what you think you own and what you actually control. In crypto, if you do not hold the keys, you do not own the asset. In the cloud, if your stack lives on one provider, your uptime is similarly rented, not owned.
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From Digital Nomad to Network Participant

The digital nomad lifestyle is no longer an experiment. It’s a mature, self-sustaining class of global citizens.
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