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Nomads. Networks. New worlds.

4Seas: A Third Space for a Third Culture

Inside an internet-born community that planted itself with open doors, in the middle of Chiang Mai

Network SchooI: A Bet on Permanence

A month inside an internet-born community trying to become a place, on an island where the infrastructure arrived before the culture.

Exit Is Not Enough

on impact and change: with your ballot, wallet, hands, or feet

Announcement: Nodes Digest

Sharing a new project I've been working on with my team

Podcast: Parallel Societies with Parallel Citizen

My first podcast appearance on camera

The Three Leviathans: God-State-Network

Religion, Nationalism, and Tribalism are a feature of humanity, not a bug

Not Your: Keys, Infrastructure, Land Title (??? )

A stress test across Crypto, Cloud, and Canadian Courts

Discord Democracy: Decentralizing Diasporas and Digital Diplomacy

Innovative coordination tools are transforming decentralized governance in digital and physical spaces. Insights from case studies in Nepal and Albania.

Network State & School 2025: Highlights

Reflections from Network State Conference in Singapore and Network School in Malaysia

How to Value Emerging Network States

Running some numbers behind the socio-techno-capital of human coordination

Decentralized Social Media: 15 Years in the Making

A brief history of decentralized social media, and a snapshot of the current landscape

Digital Fentanyl: The AI Doom Thesis

A forecast of 2030, and ways to fight our digital demons individually and collectively

Chokepoints of the ‘Decentralized’ Web

Exploring identity portability, client plurality, and social recovery

Proof of Thought: Remixing is Forking

Taking the knowledge economy more seriously

From Digital Nomad to Network Participant

Exploring NomadList's 2025 data on the average digital nomad, and addressing gaps for emerging network states

Updates on Network State Experiments (mid-2025)

Some updates and amendments from the previous post, and projects I'm looking forward to from a mid-2025 vantage point

Lessons from Network State Experiments (2023–2025)

A progress report on network states that made it to land (2023-2025). What worked, what didn't?

The Network State Manifesto

Welcome to the blog: Nomads. Networks. New worlds.