Don't Die
#001 · Venice, California · founded by Bryan Johnson
“Death is optional.”
Citizens commit to measurable longevity. Sleep at the same hour, eat the same protocol meal, train the same forty minutes. Through osmosis, all become the healthiest version of themselves.
biohackers, Blueprint subscribers, people who quit alcohol last year.
📍Venice, California
Venice, California is already the unofficial capital of longevity. Bryan lives there. Andrew Huberman teaches there. Levels has its lab there. Walk Abbot Kinney at 7am and you will pass three biohackers before your first kombucha. Anchor a residency in a refit warehouse complex; add a sleep lab, a Joovv room, a kitchen running the Blueprint protocol on rotation; partner with a longevity clinic across PCH for HRT, NAD+, plasma exchange. The polity scales by hosting sister-pods in Boulder and Austin.
The moral case.
Healthspan, not lifespan, is the next century's most important number. The current medical system optimizes for getting you out of the hospital alive. Don't Die optimizes for never seeing the inside of one. The protocol is open source. The resentment from people watching you age slower while they don't is the only barrier, and that resentment is best escaped via a network state.
From idea to polity.
- 01Lock the Venice campus (12 month lease, option to buy)
- 02Publish v0 of the Citizen Protocol (food, sleep, training, supplementation, light exposure, social rules)
- 03Onboard the first 100 citizens at $25k/year all-in (residency + protocol + clinic access)
- 04Raise the founding $50M from Blueprint customer base (no VC dilution)
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta in year two, after 1,000 citizens
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.
Don't Die 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.