The Compounders
#003 · Singapore · founded by Naval Ravikant
“Compound everything. Calmly.”
Citizens hold equity, write daily, lift weekly, meditate twice. No status games, no urgent meetings, no quarterly anything. The clock runs in decades.
indie hackers, solo capital allocators, philosophical engineers.
🇸🇬Singapore
Singapore is the only city-state that already runs on the compounders' values: low taxes, high trust, infrastructure that just works, English-speaking, time zone friendly to both California and London. Anchor in a quiet neighborhood like Bukit Timah. Citizens lease apartments individually and share a common library, a meditation hall, a gym, a tea house. No conferences, no networking events, no swag.
The moral case.
The internet has made it possible to be wealthy without being famous. Status games are losing to compounding games. The Compounders is the first network state where citizenship is proof you opted out of the rat race and into the patient one.
From idea to polity.
- 01Charter the polity around Naval's existing 'How to Get Rich' framework
- 02Onboard 200 citizens via written application and a compounding test
- 03Establish the citizen library, meditation hall, and tea house in Bukit Timah
- 04Publish the Compounders Almanack as the founding text
- 05Charter a parallel digital citizenship via on-chain attestation for those who can't relocate
Why I sent you this link.
I have lived at Network School for over a year. I have watched the network state thesis go from a book to a real, lived experiment. I have seen Balaji put it to work, and I have seen what is missing.
The missing piece is a federation. A meta-layer that gives every distinct community a constitutional home, a shared census, an interoperable passport, an anthem, and a way to recognize each other as legitimate.
That is what Interneta is. The United States of Interneta. The optimistic meta-layer for network states.
The Compounders is what I think you would build, if you decided to build one. The One Commandment is what I have inferred from your public work. The site scout, the next steps, the citizenry: all educated guesses. They are wrong wherever you say so.
If any of this lands, I would love a fifteen-minute conversation. If none of it lands, I would still love your reply telling me where I missed.