Crypto - Parallel Citizen

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. Read more

How to Value Emerging Network States

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

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. Read more

Updates on Network State Experiments (mid-2025)

In the last post, we overviewed all existing network state projects from 2023-2025 which made a serious attempt at bridging from internet to land. In this post, I am sharing: 1) A corrective addendum with some updates from the previous post 2) New projects that might be next on the horizon, things worth following. Read more

Lessons from Network State Experiments (2023–2025)

My cheeky play on The American State of the Union. Read more

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