Nadia Zhuk

[Naval @naval]

Live a disciplined life, spontaneously.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

Wholesome and beautiful. Hungary is one love.

[Balázs Orbán @BalazsOrban_HU]

🇭🇺 National Pride.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

I hope at some point people will start treating mold seriously. Mold toxicity is no joke.

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

Hey guys,

@jordanbpeterson is taking some time off of everything.

He was diagnosed with CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome) due to a genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold/bacteria in indoor air (the genetic predisposition is not that rare, it’s in about 25% of people but he has a severe version).

Over the last year or so he’s been feeling the impact of CIRS more and more. Recently he was exposed to a particularly moldy environment while helping clean out my grandfather’s house after he passed away which severely flared symptoms.

To be crystal clear - this isn’t about akathisia or medication. He’s not on any medication. It’s an immune system dysfunction.

CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome) is what has been behind his multiple health issues and random severe allergies and severe food sensitivities over the years. He’s really been suffering from this badly since 2017 we just didn’t know what it was called. Only eating meat helped keep the symptoms under control but it hasn’t been enough recently.

CIRS is also the explanation behind recent cancelled shows, cancelled events, sporadic appearance of being rundown and general weepiness (caused by pain).

He’s pausing the podcast at the moment but we’re hopeful for a somewhat speedy recovery given we at least know what’s going on, and there is treatment, and he’s responding well although it’s pretty rough.

Praise GOD that we finally know what’s been going on.

The fact that doctors don’t generally recognize that mold exposure in indoor air is causing chronic health issues is insane. The fact that this is the cause behind our food sensitivities and inability to tolerate anything other than meat (for 8 years now), multiple disorders and diseases in my family, and is virtually unrecognized by the medical community, is absurd.

Just like the medical system didn’t recognize ketogenic diets as a treatment for mental disorders 10 years ago (and still most doctors don’t).

Just like psych med withdrawal wasn’t recognized 5 years ago (and still more doctors don’t recognize it).

This indoor air quality problem that causes Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome will be commonly diagnosed in the next 5-10 years. I am positive about that.

Praying we can treat him quickly and the medical community can be more aware of CIRS and building codes can change (add ERVs to HVACs) so we can get fresh air indoors.

Everyone should take this extremely seriously if they have psych, autoimmune, or neurodegenerative disorders, or have family members they live with who suffer from these disorders as mold toxicity manifests in people exposed equally, differently.

To the people in Brazil - he apologies for not being able to make the event and definitely hopes to make it out there in the future. He apologizes for moving his European tour.

So, for now on YouTube he has episodes of the new call in Q and A show -Answer the Call- that him and I recorded together before he got really ill recently. He was very excited to put this out, helping people is what he enjoys the most. That’s why he does what he does.

We hope you guys like it, it’s out now on YouTube, @realDailyWire and all other podcasting sites and we have a few more episodes releasing tomorrow and Monday.

Thank you for the understanding 🙏🏻 prayers are appreciated.

[Jay McHale @mchale_in_flow]

You sleep 7 hours in Japan and wake up energized and healthy.

In America, the same 7 hours leaves you exhausted and reaching for coffee. And no one talks about why.

Here are 7 differences in how Japanese people sleep:

1. Average bedroom temperature: 55°F vs American 68-72°F

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

👀

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

I recently threw my $7,000 SleepNumber mattress in the garbage.

I also bought an expensive Sterns and Foster. It sucked.

I’ve come to the conclusion that memory foam is shit. Sleeps hot. No support.

8sleep is not healthy with 200 w of electricity pulsing through your body all night.

Got this about a month ago. It beats them all for $255 delivered.

Mattress industry is a scam!

Make springs great again!

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

Budapest (obviously).

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

If you could live in any city in the world right now, which one would you choose?

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

Signs you have mold toxicity:

Cognitive & Neurological

⇨ Brain fog / poor memory
⇨ Difficulty concentrating
⇨ Word-finding issues
⇨ Headaches / migraines
⇨ Light sensitivity
⇨ Mood swings, anxiety, or depression

Respiratory

⇨ Sinus congestion
⇨ Chronic cough
⇨ Shortness of breath
⇨ Wheezing or chest tightness
⇨ Recurrent infections (sinus, bronchial)

Fatigue & Pain

⇨ Chronic fatigue
⇨ Muscle aches
⇨ Joint pain (without swelling)
⇨ Weakness
⇨ Exercise intolerance

Skin & Mucous Membranes

⇨ Itchy skin or rashes
⇨ Red eyes or blurred vision
⇨ Dry eyes, dry mouth
⇨ Increased static shocks

Gut & Immune

⇨ Nausea / abdominal pain
⇨ Diarrhea or constipation
⇨ Food sensitivities
⇨ Histamine intolerance
⇨ Low-grade fevers or immune suppression

Other Common Signs

⇨ Sensitivity to chemicals or smells
⇨ Frequent urination (especially at night)
⇨ Temperature dysregulation (feeling hot/cold)
⇨ Dizziness / balance issues
⇨ Metallic taste in mouth

All of this - especially if you get better when you go outside or away from certain buildings.

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

Founders in the public: AI is writing 98% of our code. In 6 months, we won't need any developers.

Founders in DMs: Does anyone know a good React developer? $30K referral bonus and I will name my first born after you.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

@_htrap Happy New Year!

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

#dontdie

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

@BabyBelugate not yet

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

"I thought you were in a yoga retreat", just got this message on Insta.

The Network School is definitely *not* a yoga retreat, it's not "a crypto bro summer camp" either.

What is it though?

We all have different answers.

It's week 3, and I'm still trying to find mine.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

Went to my first Vipassana meditation this week at #networkschool.

First sessions were heavy; pain got processed.

Now, I feel lightness I haven't felt since childhood.

People pay $$$ to experience this in the outside world, here it's just a free event on our calendar.

Wow.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

lunch at #networkschool

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

📢I'm booked for most of October, so can't take on any more visa coaching clients - but my premium course is always available (it's self-guided), and is a great way to get endorsed on your own (on a budget).

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

Happy to announce the launch of my UK Global Talent Visa Premium Course, your ultimate resource for getting endorsed on your own.

Check it out: https://t.co/1hFcgT0Wyd

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

This week is *packed* with events, and I'm free to go to all of them - or none.

NS attracted different people. Some work full-time (remote jobs/businesses). Others are searching for the next thing to build & have more time.

I'm yet to find balance (not easy).

[Romina Roman @rominaramon]

The Network School - Day 9

A quick look at the events organized by NS'ers for today and tomorrow—packed with interesting topics and discussions. There's even more lined up for the rest of the week.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

Day at the #networkschool
- workout
- Ethereum lecture
- founder mentality lecture
- DeFi workshop
- NFTs lecture
- dinner discussion (light topics: anarchism, network states, US election, war, Eastern Europe)

Good vibes & nobody gets offended even if we disagree.

Huh.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

@rominaramon To your question: I haven't seen anyone work on this yet.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

@rominaramon This would be brilliant.

I was just having this convo - about how my grandma was recommending "cold showers" and other "biohacking" hacks all along.

Same for food (eg. pickled food).

There is so much ancestral wisdom and I'd love to learn about similarities between cultures.

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

@ksaitor @balajis sure, is there anything specific you'd like to learn more about?

[Nadia Zhuk @beetlehope]

Wrapping up Week 1 at the Network School.

The quality of people @balajis has attracted is off the charts.

Conversations continue for hours - on any topic.

Learning flows.

Things get built - very quickly.

Physical world is edited daily.

I've never seen anything like this.

[Balaji @balajis]

THE NETWORK SCHOOL

We got an island.

That’s right. Through the power of Bitcoin, we now have a beautiful island near Singapore where we’re building the Network School. We’re starting with a 90-day popup that runs from Sep 23 to Dec 23, right after the Network State Conference. Rent is only $1000/month with roommates or $2000/month solo. And we have plenty of day passes for visitors.

So, go apply online at ns dot com! Then read more below.

THE DARK TALENT
As motivation, I’ve always wanted to expand equality of opportunity around the world. Because my father was born in a desperately poor country, but with the right opportunity he was able to make something of himself. Like dark matter, he was dark talent. And for more than a decade I’ve been thinking about how to give others who are similarly situated the chance to make something of themselves. That is: I’ve been thinking about how to empower the dark talent of the world.

US universities used to fill this role, even imperfectly, and I loved Stanford when I taught there years ago. But the data shows they’ve declined in recent days. And they’re just not affordable or accessible to most of the world. So, it’s time for a new approach. And thanks to Saraswati and Satoshi, I have the resources to endow a new Internet-first institution: the Network School.

The purpose of the Network School is to articulate a vision of peace, trade, internationalism, and technology…even as the rest of the world talks about war, trade war, nationalism, and statism. To revitalize democracy for the internet era, with digital polities and verifiable votes. To train the next generation to be not just leaders of companies, but inspirations for their communities. And to pursue truth, health, and wealth by leveling up our attendees personally, physically, and professionally.

Let me now describe in more detail how the Network School works, who it’s for, and how to apply.

HOW THE NETWORK SCHOOL WORKS
The Network School is for people of all ages, not just the youth. And it’s meant to be lifelong rather than one-off, with both a structured and and an unstructured component. The structured part is about continuous daily self-improvement: learning skills, burning calories, and earning currency. Meanwhile, the unstructured part is about having fun and hanging out with people of similar values.

For short: learn, burn, earn, and fun.

Learn
The first part of the Network School is about learning technologies and humanities.

As motivation, the existing model of US undergraduate education is broken. You pay $100k+ for a four year degree, and then budget nothing for maintenance over the course of your life. It’s like paying $100k+ for a new car and budgeting nothing for maintenance.

By contrast, the Network School is about continuous education. It’s for remote workers, engineers, creators and digital nomads who want to integrate learning into their lives, rather than stopping everything to be a full-time student.

Here’s how that works. We set up mini-classrooms where you can drop in to see the problem of the day.5 You solve that problem and a proctor awards you a cryptocredential, a free non-transferable NFT sent to your crypto wallet that establishes “proof-of-learn.” Often your solution will involve putting code on GitHub/Replit (to show you understand a concept), or posting content to your social media profile (to show you understand a new AI tool). And over time, these cryptocredentials actually build up a cryptoresume proving what you know.

Our initial material focuses on founding tech communities, as distinct from tech companies. As such it touches on everything from crypto, AI, and social media to history, politics, and filmmaking. It should be useful even if you’re just growing a traditional company or building a following. Over time, of course, every branch of the sciences and humanities becomes relevant when building a community. So if this initial experiment works, we can expand branch-by-branch to build a new kind of university.

But we’re intentionally starting with something simple. Our learning is about continuous education, about solving the problem-of-the-day.

Burn
The second part of the Network School is about burning calories.

Longevity is important, but 20th century communities just aren’t physically set up to maximize physical fitness. Quite the contrary: the default mode of Western society is sedentary and sugary. Those who want to escape this need to roll their own nutrition and workout program, which takes time, money, and energy.

We’re changing that. I’ve teamed up with my friend @bryan_johnson to set up Blueprint-inspired food and fitness for the entire Network School community. Bryan will be on campus to set up the program, and then his designates will maintain it on a daily basis. Like many of you, I’ve been both fit and fat at various times, so this is a product I want to use myself.

Every member of the Network School gets a daily workout slot with a semi-personal trainer, much like a group fitness class. You run and lift in the morning at your chosen time, getting a proof-of-workout from your trainer. Your group holds you accountable for showing up. Then you get a box with your Blueprint-optimized healthy meals and head to work. The whole point is to provide willpower-as-a-service, where the community6 provides the discipline.

We’re starting with the basics of running, lifting, eating, and sleeping properly. The initial goal is to hit the limits of your genetics. But if all goes well, the biotech founders that come to the Network School will eventually help us all surpass our genetic limits, to live much longer than we otherwise would.

But again, we’re starting small! And so the “burning calories” part is about lifelong health and the workout-of-the-day.

Earn
The third part of the Network School is about earning currency.

We’ll have crypto prizes of the day for open source projects, AI content creation, and microtasks. There will be $1000 bounties every day for the duration of the program, similar to the various prizes I’ve posted on Twitter and Farcaster. And community members will post their own prizes.

Next, in keeping with the overall theme of self-improvement, we’ll have office hours to help with your job, your career, your visa status, and your funding. We’re much more invested in you than a typical college career center because our interests are aligned: the more you earn, and the stronger you are financially, the more you’ll eventually have to reinvest in the community.

Finally, we’ll have visitor hours with famous visiting technologists. As my friend Sriram noticed, when investors come through Singapore I typically do a podcast with them. Many will also visit the Network School to meet attendees, invest in them, or hire them. Others will give remote talks. And you can see the quality of visitors from the speakers in our conference and podcast.

So, earning is about constant career development and the prize-of-the-day.

Fun
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, of course. So the fourth part of the Network School is about fun.

This is the unstructured component. It’s most of what you’re here for. It’s just about assembling great people in one place: positive-sum people who believe in technological progress, internationalism, and capitalism. It’s your internet friends, coming from URL to IRL. Stanford introduced the concept of residential education, but this takes it to the next level.

In fact, our initial location is very similar to Stanford. It’s beautiful and sunny, and less than an hour from a major city (Singapore) with an international airport (Changi). That means you can be heads down during the week, head into the city on the weekends for fun, and get to just about anywhere in Asia within the same day. This is convenient for the >50% of the world that lives within the Valeriepieris circle.

We’ll do some group outings too, but most of the fun will be up to you.

WHO THE NETWORK SCHOOL IS FOR
Who is the Network School for? There are four lenses on this: demographical, ideological, professional, and personal.

Demographically
As mentioned, our focus is the dark talent. The more respect you have for legacy institutions, and the more respect they have for you, the less suitable you’ll be as an applicant.

So: the Network School is for Indian engineers and African founders, for makers from the Midwest and the Middle East, for Chinese liberals and Latin American libertarians, for Southeast Asia’s rising technologists and Europe’s remaining capitalists.

It’s for everyone who doesn’t feel part of the establishment. But it’s definitely not only for tech, because a community does not run on tech alone.

Ideologically
Ideologically, the Network School is for people who admire Western values, but who also recognize that Asia is in ascendance, and that the next world order is more properly centered around the Internet — around neutral code — than around either declining Western institutions or a rising Chinese state.

For example, the Network School is for those who understand that Bitcoin succeeds the Federal Reserve, that encryption is the only true protection against unreasonable search and seizure, that AI can deliver better opinions than any Delaware magistrate, and that democracy can be rejuvenated with cryptography. It is for those who believe in technology, harmony, internationalism, and capitalism. It’s for those who want Silicon Valley without San Francisco. And for those who want to found, fund, and find not just new companies and currencies — but new cities and new communities.

Professionally
Our ideal applicant is capable of remote work, or has enough savings to support themselves while at the Network School. For our initial cohort, we’re seeking three major groups of people in particular:

- Writers, artists, influencers, and filmmakers
- Trainers, athletes, coaches, and clinicians
- Founders, engineers, designers, and investors

These are, roughly, the demographics focused on learning, burning, and earning respectively. Of course, if you fall outside those categories but still think you have something to contribute, you should still apply to the Network School.

Personally
I should mention that the Network School is a “product” that I built for the young version of myself — the aspiring young engineer. This is the community I want to live in: a technocapitalist college town, a Stanford 2.0 that’s globally affordable and genuinely meritocratic.

So, I’ll be on campus full time. Bryan Johnson and I are supervising the setup of everything from bench press to French press. And we’ll eventually be recruiting faculty in the form of content creators, fitness influencers, and angel investors for the learn, burn, and earn portions of our program respectively. But all that in due time.

APPLYING TO THE NETWORK SCHOOL
Ok, so how do you apply to the Network School?

Just go to ns dot com and click "apply." We’ve set up a simple Luma page where you can apply in a few minutes. Then, if you pass review, we’ll send a second application where you pay rent. As mentioned, our monthly rent is $1000 (with roommates) and $2000 (solo). We also have daily and weekly rates too, but short-term visitors still need to apply.

The rent gets you an air-conditioned room on a beautiful island, with internet, gym, and access to all courses and community services. You’ll still need to handle your flights and pay for your food, but we think the overall package is extremely affordable. And so the Network School could be an amazing option for individuals or small teams looking to save money, get fit, and level up while living in paradise.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there! Just fill out the application at ns dot com, also linked in the tweet below.