# The Eternal Optimist

> A collection of random thoughts on how to improve society and make my kid proud.

## Recent Posts

- [2026: Betting on Ephemeral Cities](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/2026-betting-on-ephemeral-cities): My Pop-Up City Picks and Building the Next Wave in Portugal
- [The New Sovereigns: Why Self-Sufficient Cities Are Rising as Safe Havens](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/the-new-sovereigns-why-self-sufficient-cities-are-rising-as-safe-havens-1): When borders fail and states stumble, will city-states and island refuges become the world’s ultimate Plan B?
- [Experiencing the Future of Governance: Free Cities Conference 2025 in Prague](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/experiencing-the-future-of-governance-free-cities-conference-2025-in-prague)
- [Red Planet, New Rules: A Constitution for Mars](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/red-planet-new-rules-a-constitution-for-mars): As humans land on Mars, survival will come first, but governance will soon follow. How necessity, technology, and cooperation could shape the first digital-born society in human history.
- [From Singapore With Optimism: My Network States Week Recap](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/from-singapore-with-optimism-my-network-states-week-recap): A journey through ideas, people, and the emerging frontier of Network States
- [Mapping the Experiments in Network States](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/mapping-the-experiments-in-network-states): From charter cities to pop-up villages, mapping the living experiments of tomorrow’s societies.
- [Campsites Are the Original Network States](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/campsites-are-the-original-network-states): Campsites mirror the principles of network states: shared community, equal living spaces, and vibrant communal areas where culture is built.
- [Resetting, not reforming!](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/resetting-not-reforming): Fixing the world by reforming takes many cycles of generations to take place and become effective. Recreating a system might be faster, but only affects a small group. Let's explore the two.
- [Are we back to the Dark Ages?](https://paragraph.com/@hypermario/are-we-back-to-the-dark-ages): There's this feeling in the air that we're going backwards in time and submitting ourselves to the Dark Ages again. Is that true? Let's try to find out!

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