Protocol
#017 · Topanga, California · founded by Andrew Huberman
“Light, cold, sleep, in that order.”
Mornings begin with thirty minutes of sun. Cold plunge before lunch. Caffeine after ten, never before. Sleep tracked, optimized, defended.
podcast bros, biohackers, sleep doctors, anyone who owns a NIR panel.
📍Topanga, California
Topanga and Malibu's eastern canyons are already the Huberman fan base. Anchor a citizen campus on a Topanga ridge with morning sun exposure, a cold plunge in a creek, a sauna, and a sleep lab. Citizens live in cabins arranged around a central protocol hall.
The moral case.
The internet has democratized neuroscience-derived self-optimization. Protocol is the polity that makes those protocols civic infrastructure.
From idea to polity.
- 01Acquire a Topanga ridge property as the founding node
- 02Open citizenship to anyone who follows the Huberman protocol for 90 days
- 03Charter a citizen rule: sun before screen
- 04Charter the polity to host quarterly retreats for protocol verification
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta after 500 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.
Protocol 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.