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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” everyday, and examining why the vote to exit itself, may not be enough.On ChangeIn 1970, economist Albert O. Hirschman published Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, a slim book that reframed how we think about dissatisfaction. When a firm, an organi...

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Podcast: Parallel Societies with Parallel Citizen
Happy 2026 everyone! What a wild year so far… (its only January). As a quick update: A lot is happening in the background as I’m building and working on a couple of projects adjacent to the space (in decentralized tech, privacy-focused authenticity, and in open metrics and dashboards within the network state and network society movement). The blog is still very much alive, but you’ll naturally see more infrequent posts. I’m also going to be visiting Network School sometime this summer for a c...
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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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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. 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. In ...
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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.
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Network State & School 2025: Highlights
Welcome to the many new subscribers who joined following the NS Conference👋. It was incredible to meet so many of you in person and put a face to our online interactions, and many others who I met for the first time. I previously compiled a list of all Network State experiments that made it onto land, including experiments covered in the last two NS conferences (2023-24). This year, I was fortunate to visit the conference in person and was lucky enough to visit the Network School campus and ...
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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” everyday, and examining why the vote to exit itself, may not be enough.On ChangeIn 1970, economist Albert O. Hirschman published Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, a slim book that reframed how we think about dissatisfaction. When a firm, an organi...

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Made with ❤️ from us, by Wagmit, Cookie, Eric, & Michael (Parallel Citizen)Hey reader! I’ve shared before that i’ve been busy working on stuff in the background. Below, I wanted to share the announcement and launch of Nodes Digest - a Substack digest publishing as part of nsnodes.com - a dashboard tracking network state experiments happening all around the world. We just published the first Nodes Digest. This is a new weekly roundup from the network-state ecosystem: projects, experiments, com...
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Jan 28
Podcast: Parallel Societies with Parallel Citizen
Happy 2026 everyone! What a wild year so far… (its only January). As a quick update: A lot is happening in the background as I’m building and working on a couple of projects adjacent to the space (in decentralized tech, privacy-focused authenticity, and in open metrics and dashboards within the network state and network society movement). The blog is still very much alive, but you’ll naturally see more infrequent posts. I’m also going to be visiting Network School sometime this summer for a c...
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Dec 2
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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Blog iconParallel Citizen
Oct 24
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. 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. In ...
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Oct 18
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.
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Oct 8
Network State & School 2025: Highlights
Welcome to the many new subscribers who joined following the NS Conference👋. It was incredible to meet so many of you in person and put a face to our online interactions, and many others who I met for the first time. I previously compiled a list of all Network State experiments that made it onto land, including experiments covered in the last two NS conferences (2023-24). This year, I was fortunate to visit the conference in person and was lucky enough to visit the Network School campus and ...
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Sep 24
How to Value Emerging Network States
Running some numbers behind the socio-techno-capital of human coordination.
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Sep 10
Decentralized Social Media: 15 Years in the Making
A brief history of decentralized social media, and a snapshot of the current landscape.
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Sep 2
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.
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Aug 28
Chokepoints of the ‘Decentralized’ Web
The promise of Web3 has always been a more decentralized, user-owned internet - a radical departure from the walled gardens and algorithmic overlords of Web2.
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Updates on Network State Experiments (mid-2025)