Parallel Citizen

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

We don’t have an idea shortage, we have an attribution shortage. Memetic ideas flash through feeds, go viral, and then vanish. They’re rarely nurtured or credited, but rather evolve in fragmented ways.

The digital nomad lifestyle is no longer an experiment. It’s a mature, self-sustaining class of global citizens.

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.

My cheeky play on The American State of the Union.

Adapted from Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto.