Writing
On the science and practice of daily reflection — why putting your life into words changes how you think, feel, and grow.
July 29, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#024 — Anna Sokol: a life given to a meditation community
A Network School conversation with Anna Sokol, a meditation and awareness instructor who left Ukraine for Australia at sixteen and gave much of her twenties to Giving School, a meditation community with retreat centers in Latvia. On attention as the one tool we have, why most fear lives in the head, and what actually makes a community last: a whole-hearted shared goal, ongoing education, and everyone treating the project as their own.
Read →July 28, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#023 — Velveteen: the artist who helps founders tell their story
A Network School conversation with the artist Velveteen (Miriam Reza): a senior-year car crash that broke both hands, learning to draw left-handed to finish her art-school portfolio, studying design at NC State, moving from dark charcoal to bright animal-filled paintings meant to bring people joy, hidden symbols in her community pieces, her years in NFTs and film, and founding Chymira to turn deep tech research into a clear story. On what separates human art from AI: you put a piece of your soul into it.
Read →July 26, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#022 — Daria Chernozub: going global by going local
A Network School conversation with Daria Chernozub (Dasha), who leads global adoption for Dash. From a Russian central-bank sandbox and a first coin bought because it shared her name, to DevRel in Cyprus, local hubs for the Internet Computer, a year on Koh Phangan, and her rule for scaling anything: go global by going local.
Read →July 25, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#021 — Anton Pecherkin: from 40+ hackathons to ContentDAO
A conversation at Network School with Anton Pecherkin, a Web3 engineer who won something like forty to fifty hackathons across Europe, then built a blockchain agency (green-energy NFT certificates piloted on Semakau Island in Singapore) before founding ContentDAO. On treating judges as the spec, hating dependency hell, and building “Google Ads for small content creators” with pay held in escrow until the post ships.
Read →July 21, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#020 — The Best Consumer in the World: Ashish Sood
A conversation at Network School with Ashish Sood — a serial founder (a nightlife app, personal lending in India, an RWA tokenization platform) who now runs Curious Ventures, a fund that follows network states. On “founder fraud” and living where founders live, why money is only a multiplier, the paper prototype that got his first app built for free, and reading with your ears and eyes at once.
Read →July 20, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#019 — 30 Years in Robotics, Shenzhen, and Claude Code: Tony Lopez
A conversation at Network School with Tony Lopez — an electronics and robotics engineer who went from a childhood MSX computer in Spain to aerospace work with the European Space Agency, four years building lithium iron phosphate batteries in Shenzhen, and a nomadic decade through Georgia and Southeast Asia. On how a PID controller works, why he reads Shenzhen as a learning environment, the “Claude Code moment,” and creativity as the human edge.
Read →July 16, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#018 — From Hinton’s Class to “TikTok for Opinions”: Daniel Im
A conversation at Network School with Daniel Jiwoong Im — who learned ML from Geoffrey Hinton at Toronto (with Sutskever and Karpathy as TAs), trained AI models of fruit-fly brains at Janelia, and left a PhD to build companies. On the arc from an AI search engine and crypto market data to UBet’s betting AMM and Belief Market, a “TikTok for opinions,” and the wisdom of crowds that ties it all together.
Read →July 15, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#017 — Psytrance Festivals to Tokenized Stocks: Peter Donaldson
A wide-ranging conversation at Network School with Peter Donaldson — cellist at three, festival producer in China for fifteen years, now business development at STOX, an intent-based exchange for tokenized equities. On a music app that paid artists in 24 hours, MEV as an old human habit, and why convenience should build community instead of isolating us.
Read →July 14, 2026 · 5 min read
LLP#016 — Own Your AI, or Be Owned By It: David Johnston
A conversation at Network School with David Johnston — the man who coined the term “DApps” in 2013 — now lead technologist on Morpheus, a permissionless network for decentralized, private AI. On riding every tech wave from biodiesel to Bitcoin, what Morpheus actually is, and why owning your AI is the new question of freedom.
Read →July 13, 2026 · 6 min read
LLP#015 — Building a Quantum-Proof Bitcoin: Chris of Quantus
A wide-ranging conversation at Network School with Chris Smith — UV Lightman — founder of Quantus, a proof-of-work blockchain built to survive the day quantum computers can break Bitcoin’s cryptography. On Shor’s algorithm and the efficient-attack problem, what money actually is, a stranger from NIST, local AI as an exocortex, and using both halves of your brain.
Read →July 11, 2026 · 8 min read
The Founder Who Teaches Kids to Build With Chopsticks
A conversation at Network School with Chong Ing Kai, the 22-year-old founder of Stick ’Em — who went from building flamethrowers to winning a US$1M Hult Prize for making STEAM education accessible. On problem clarity, why he’d delay AI for kids, the day he risked jail to win a million dollars, and holding the tension every social entrepreneur faces.
Read →July 9, 2026 · 8 min read
The Signals of Life: Ethereum, Biomarkers, and Bioregions — a Conversation with Koss
A wide-ranging chat recorded at Network School with Koss — a Venezuelan builder who came to Ethereum through hyperinflation and now works in decentralized storage. On crypto’s grassroots origins, social networks built on biomarkers instead of screens, reading the signals of living systems and whole bioregions, and inventing the future rather than predicting it.
Read →July 4, 2026 · 11 min read
The Loop and the Page: Why Rumination Predicts Depression — and Journaling Can Do the Opposite
Replaying a bad day in your head reliably predicts depression. Writing it down — done right — is one of the most studied self-help tools in psychology. Same raw material, opposite outcomes. Here is the difference, the science behind it, and how to journal for growth instead of feeding the loop.
Read →July 4, 2026 · 10 min read
The Other Half of Journaling: Writing to Build Your Mind, Not Just Empty It
Most journaling advice tells you to dump the noise and walk away lighter. But there’s an older, opposite practice — writing to think, to appreciate, and to understand — and the research says it’s where the real returns are.
Read →July 4, 2026 · 9 min read
The 750-Word Habit: Who Does It, Why It Works, and When It Doesn’t
Authors, founders, and ordinary people empty their minds onto the page every morning — roughly 750 words, private, unedited. Where the habit comes from, what four decades of research says it does, why privacy is the active ingredient, and the honest fine print.
Read →July 3, 2026 · 6 min read
The Soul Constellation: A Galaxy You Own
Why we’re turning your journaling into a living, one-of-one piece of art you truly own — how every 750-word day becomes a star placed by the meaning of your words, and why privacy is guaranteed by the math, not a promise.
Read →July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
What 750 Words a Day Does to Your Mind
Forty years of research on daily journaling — from working memory and focus to sleep, mood, and well-being. The science behind a 750-word daily entry, and why it compounds.
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