# Network State 2023 Recap - Gen's Notes

### Overall Thoughts
- Nomading is a new fad, the new rich

## 1. Balaji
1. Theory
1. Practice
1. Conference

- vertical: geo-political. locations on the map
- horizontal: parallel to the existing world. media, school, startup-hub etc.

## 2. Cabin
- high speed internet
- nature at front door

Membership
- 0.2eth/year
- passport
- need vouching of an existing member to join

Features
- collecting stamps (badges, reputation)
- census
- city directory
- use token voting for attention curation
- IRL dinner hosting

History
- since 2019, tweets into the void

## 3. Neighborhood SF
- co-living community of 10-20 ppl
- ppl that met here raised $1.1b
- why aren't there more of these?
- interesting ppl are hard to coordinate

**Repeatable Machine of a Co-living Community**
1. live dashboard of recruitment status vs constraints
* constraints: non-male 40%+, 15% VC, 19 dif expertise etc.
3. Share! and ppl will naturally try to meet the constraints
4. curate an IRL event around the co-living idea, and some of the participants will eventually co-live
* This co-living may be about Climate Change / crypto / bioengineering etc.
5. for Onboarding, ask for
* intro tweet about the expertise one has
* 3 Qs you wanna ask others
* and match the two sides accordingly

## 3. Nomad
- HW, modular house
- founder 10+yr nomading, 65 countries

Problem
- consistency
- Airbnb is great, but no consistency
- convenience
- hotels are consistent, but no kitchen/work station etc.
- community
- nomad #1 complaint is loneliness

Seamless live&work experience
- Node: container box. modular house
- Village: in each nomad hub like Bali/Roatan, monthly membership place
- network

## Praxis
- the charismatic idea of creating a new city
- a lot of marriage came out of praxis
Q) What policy change would make you move to a new country/city?
- regulatory change
- investment incentive
- sandbox. Gov reach out to us to invite Praxis, make them come to their country

Q) How do you fundraise for a city, in $billions?
- demand-based fundraising
- build community first, get deposit

## 5. Culdesac
- a block in a middle of a city, in Arizona
- no car
- started in 2019 Nov, started building in 2021
- Portfolio of mobility options
- light rail
- ride share
- e-bicycle
- autonomous vehicle

## 6. Prospera
Roatan... for rich?

## Fractal
How we bootstrapped a community in NYC, with 36 residents
- plant the flag
- host the weekly meetup
- friends are invited default, +1 welcomed
- provide short-term stay

if ur frens like it, they will rent a place near you

- marginal revolution
- babies
- universities
- all the top class knowledge is open source
- rural expansion

I will show you all that it is possible, and open source the journey

## 8. Vibecamp
- found my tribe in Vibecamp!
- multi-day IRL gathering of X addicts
- in 2020, Twitter algoritm gathered like-minded ppl
- so many other camps spring up, inspired by vibecamp
- BIPublic
- agency explosion!
- if you gather a bunch of smart ppl in one room, they will work on the hard problems

## 9. Cover
- parallel construction
- modular. you can build and tear down easily
- easy compliance, faster permitting

## 10. Spectra
- founder used to work for 뉴욕 교통국 for public bikes, found Jump!
- LLR: it is so hard to change an existing city!
- VR to test urban design
- explore concept cities
- open source it, iterate on this concept city, and finally build it

## 11. A digital Island
## 12. Casa Orascom
- family fund?

## 13. MetaCartel
- gutting the chilli!

## 14. Coordinape
- DAO: globalized P2P collaboration
- we started from Yearn, how do we *reward* contributors in a decentralized manner?
What we need for collaboration
- Appreciation
- Info. flow
- Reward

## 15. Plumia (SafetyWing)
- social infra/institution is becoming obsolete -> build a new country online
SafetyWing
- 30k paying member
- Insurance, Health
- Social SafetyNet

Plumia
- Nomad Border Pass
- Passport
- like the Schengen Agreement

=> Citizenship as a Service

- countries are competing to invite nomads -> Nomad Visa
- Build diplomatic relationship w/countries
- City State -> Nation State first appeared in 1600 -> ???
- transition: what the city state did for us, now the nation state provides
- 70mil Americans wanna become a nomad
- 5yr visa to 10 countries -> MVP of Nomad Visa

## 16. Yayam
- nomad members club
- new nomad: rich, ambitious, define success in its own way
- cf) penny saving backpackers
- problem of new nomads: loneliness, drop of productivity
- solution: new OS for the new way of living
- post-office world, local conceirge, travel, dating app

## 17. Competitive Government
- Gov are the biggest in the world economy, but what's wrong? i don't like my gov. I don't like any of the gov that exists
- Gov as an industry - cartel, local monopoly, high switching cost

1. Seasteading
- cruise ships can rent law OS from the countries by holding the relevant flag
- can switch OS easily
3. Laws are open source. Free to fork
- Dubai forked London's code base
- imported London judges

- Thanks to BTC money shower, my funders are mostly from crypto