Parallel Citizen

Parallel Citizen is a guide for those building sovereign lives and systems beyond the legacy world.

I write about, and track the frontier of cloud-first civilization: network states, startup cities, cryptographic law, decentralized media, and digital diasporas. If you’re more interested in founding systems than complaining about them, you’re in the right place.

This isn’t tech hype or exit-maximalism. It’s techno-realism: a search for coordination at the edges of collapse. What happens when small groups, aligned by values and connected by encrypted networks, prototype new institutions - and then land them in the real world?

Ongoing essays, dispatches, and research reports offer:

• Ground-floor coverage of network-state experiments and special zones

• Playbooks for decentralized culture-building and digital sovereignty

• Geopolitical updates for cloud-native dissidents

• Reflections on governance, spirituality, and cultural infrastructure

• Analysis on where tech, identity, and civilization are heading next

I write for builders, tech optimists, and global citizens.
The culturally agile, politically unorthodox, and open to experimental living.
The ones charting exits—not from broken institutions, but from dead paradigms.

If you’ve ever wondered about political and technological exit, and what a post pax-Americana world might look like, welcome to the network.

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