Lifestyle Design
#018 · Lisbon, Portugal · founded by Tim Ferriss
“Geographic arbitrage is a moral right.”
Citizens earn in dollars, spend in pesos, work four hours, and read the rest. The polity moves with the seasons.
DRs, remote workers, polymath retirees in their thirties.
🇵🇹Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon is the unofficial capital of geographic arbitrage already, and Tim has Portuguese roots. Anchor the polity in Príncipe Real with citizen apartments, a coworking space, a kitchen running 80/20 nutrition, and a tasting room for citizens to test 4-Hour Body experiments.
The moral case.
Remote work is the new normal. The legacy nation-state hasn't caught up. Lifestyle Design is the first polity engineered around the actual modern knowledge worker.
From idea to polity.
- 01Anchor the Príncipe Real campus
- 02Open citizenship to anyone with three years of remote work history and a Substack or equivalent
- 03Charter a citizen rule: maximum four hours of synchronous work per day
- 04Charter the polity to subsidize seasonal moves between Lisbon, Bali, and Mexico City
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta 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.
Lifestyle Design 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.