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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.
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.
Exit Is Not Enough
In case you missed it, I had my first podcast appearance on the Speakeasy Pod where I briefly discussed the cost of exit and touch on how someone might consider exit as a viable option. Below, some expanded thoughts on the four ways you exercise your “vote” every day, and examining why the vote to exit itself, may not be enough.
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.
Not Your: Keys, Infrastructure, Land Title (???)
When It RainsTwo 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.
How to Value Emerging Network States
Running some numbers behind the socio-techno-capital of human coordination.
Digital Fentanyl: The AI Doom Thesis
Every society has a drug-defining era, an intoxicant that captures the zeitgeist and reshapes public life. For 19th-century China, it was opium. For industrial Britain, gin. In our time, the defining drug isn't a molecule but a medium: the infinite doomscroll.
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.