Stay Hard
#016 · Olympia, Washington · founded by David Goggins
“Don't quit. Ever.”
Citizens run before sunrise. Cold plunge daily. Calluses on the mind. The polity hosts the world's hardest mile and citizens line up to suffer it.
runners, ex-military, recovering soft people.
📍Olympia, Washington
Olympia and the Pacific Northwest in general have the right combination: harsh weather, military-adjacent culture, abundant trails. Anchor in a 200-acre property with a sub-7-min-mile track, a cold plunge in a glacial creek, and a sauna for post-suffer regen.
The moral case.
American softness is a public health crisis. Stay Hard is the polity that treats discomfort as the medicine.
From idea to polity.
- 01Acquire 200 acres of Pacific NW land as the founding node
- 02Open citizenship to anyone who completes the Goggins Mile under nine minutes
- 03Charter a citizen rule: cold plunge daily, training logged
- 04Charter the polity to host the world's hardest mile annually
- 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.
Stay Hard 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.