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September 2026 - The Network State: How To Start a New Country
By: Balaji Srinivasan
Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities, or even new countries? This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state.
August 2026 - The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor.
July 2026 - Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
By: Will Guidara
Legendary restaurateur Will Guidara reveals how radical, hyper-personalized care can transform any business. This New York Times bestseller and JP Morgan NextList pick—written by the WSJ Innovator Award winner-proves that making customers feel deeply valued is the ultimate secret
The Guardian
Like all utopian visions, this one, too, is diagnostic – an answer to a growing list of “wicked” social problems like surveillance capitalism, economic stagnation, political polarization, and conflict among great powers. Just when we need leaders to solve our problems, Balaji argues, they are failing, and the reason isn’t just corruption or incompetence – the reason is technological.
Forbes
As Balaji condenses the idea in one sentence, “a network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states”.
CoinMarketCap
The Network State is an intriguing, daring, but also scattered and disorderly vision of a new use case for crypto in book form. It is Dr. Srinivasan’s proposal of how crypto and blockchains can upend societies and their formation as we know them and bootstrap the formation of entirely new ones.
