Written by a famous Valley Founder - Balaji Srinivasan, it’s a book / a movement / a community targeted for a ‘prepared’ audience.

If one doesn't need an explanation of why Bitcoin is the ‘greatest invention of mankind’, certain institutions and whole countries failed on their promises and progress got stagnant, then it’d align and enrich that feeling 10x.

Otherwise, it’s a pretty diverse mix of tech-vision, sprinkled with bits of history, and some political philosophy. Being incredibly serious on the matter it tries to discuss, I couldn’t help but feel a lack of depth and coherence in the message, while simultaneously hard to pick what that message is.

My crude interpretation - it’s a call for “independent hackers” to build a new ‘cool’ state.

With the premises being:

• Tech solves territorial attachment
• Capital is free-moving with digital currency
• Yeah - and we don’t like US ‘establishment’ politics
• And we also don't like NYT specifically (around ~100 mentions by quick search, I'd say a bit weird)

It argues for a proper state - with international recognition, land, laws, etc.

So, at some point, it goes a bit far (not in used ‘base-rate’ terminology), but from the consistency of the argument side.

i.e. To me - it’s really clear that the author wants to create a state, I’m not sure why, but still.

However, why does anyone else need to follow the call?

Even if aligned with values, the supercharged community is cool - but for appearing on the dashboard with real-time wealth estimation? Very hard to buy into that.