Christopher Smith sits down with Jackson Steger, the Founding Director of Network School, for a deep conversation about intentional community building, urban design, and the future of startup societies.

Jackson shares how Network School went from a three-month popup experiment to a thriving long-term community in Forest City, Malaysia — growing from 100 people to over 256 residents, with a roadmap toward scaling intentional living, subcultures, education, and multi-layered ecosystems. He explains why contribution, momentum, and shared purpose are essential ingredients for any community that wants to endure, and how culture becomes the foundation on which cities are truly built.

The conversation explores the realities of designing social infrastructure, the importance of predictable collisions and shared rituals, lessons from Prospera and global jurisdictions, and why environments with high density, trust, and diversity of skill sets produce more innovation. Chris and Jackson also dive into family, childhood development, physical spaces, long-term thinking, governance, and why property rights encoded in technology will define the next century.

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (September 2025)

Recorded Sept 2025 inside the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City, Malaysia.

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Chapters

00:00 — Property rights, wealth preservation & the purpose of Quantus

02:00 — Meeting Jackson & the mission behind Network School

04:00 — Scaling from 100 to 256 residents & building momentum

06:00 — Subcultures, Layer-2 communities & social infrastructure

08:00 — Long-term thinking, trust & why people stay

12:00 — Education, families & designing better learning environments

16:00 — Physical space, nature & the value of safe community

20:00 — Lessons from Prospera & global jurisdiction experiments

24:00 — Regulatory arbitrage, mobility & the rise of digital nations

28:00 — Commerce, contribution & creating sustainable cities

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (Oct 2025)

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In Episode 13 of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith sits down with Khaled Sabbagh — Jordanian entrepreneur, creator, and founder of Course Arabia — for a rare, honest conversation about entrepreneurship, timing, failure, discipline, and rebuilding yourself in a world transforming through AI and crypto.

The two explore why some founders stall while others take off, how timing can matter more than effort, and what it means to "buy back your time" in environments like Network School, where fitness, work, community, and focus blend into a high-performance rhythm. They discuss resilience, identity, failure psychology, global startup cultures, education, and what it takes to build a life — not just a company.

From Silicon Valley funding culture to Middle Eastern ambition, from crypto adoption to quantum threats, from personal discipline to self-honesty, from childhood patterns to rewriting identity — this episode blends technology, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and human development into one of the most open and energetic conversations of the season.

Recorded in Sept 2025 inside the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City, Malaysia.

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YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@1sabbagh

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Chapters

00:00 — Cybersecurity, crypto & quantum threats
02:00 — Meeting Khaled at Network School
04:00 — Buying back your time & high-performance environments
06:00 — AI, online business & the future of digital education
08:00 — Global crypto adoption & why the U.S. is behind
10:00 — Why hard work isn't enough — timing vs effort
12:00 — Startup resilience, failure psychology & rebuilding
16:00 — Silicon Valley vs Middle East startup cultures
20:00 — Personal identity, self-honesty & growth
24:00 — Network School, lifestyle design & finding flow
28:00 — Final reflections: youth, freedom & building the future

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (Oct 2025)

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In this episode of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith sits down with Vít Jedlička, the president and founder of Liberland — a micronation built on the principles of freedom, voluntary governance, and blockchain-based democracy.

Vít shares how Liberland evolved from a bold idea into a real emerging nation with citizens, elections, governance systems, and people physically building homes on its land. He explains how a "no man's land" on the Danube became a global signal for people who value sovereignty, minimal bureaucracy, voluntary taxation, and decentralized governance.

The conversation explores the rise of network states, the philosophy behind self-governance, the role of blockchain in eliminating bureaucrats, and why hundreds of thousands of people have applied for Liberland citizenship. Vít also breaks down their hybrid political structure blending democracy, monarchy, corporate governance, and smart contracts into a living constitutional system running on a sovereign blockchain.

They discuss everything from resistance to global government, to taxes as a form of failed civilization, to AI citizens, to the future of parallel societies built from the ground up. A rare look into the mindset and mechanics behind one of the world's most daring experiments in governance.

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YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@UCh29cq8F3Iz7iqyI_LRhyVQ

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/vjedlicka

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/liberlandofficial

X – https://x.com/vit_jedlicka

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Announcements – https://t.me/quantusannouncements

Chapters

00:00 — What is Liberland?

02:00 — The birth of a new nation & global demand for freedom

04:00 — Network states, sovereignty & escaping global government

06:00 — Building on the Danube: homes, blockades & real citizens

08:00 — Elections, governance & Liberland's hybrid political model

10:00 — Blockchain as constitution: removing bureaucrats

12:00 — Voluntary taxes, incentives & redefining contribution

14:00 — Childhood, responsibility & the psychology of governance

16:00 — Europe's decline, parasitism & societal incentives

18:00 — AI citizens, future governance & legal identity

20:00 — Stablecoins, privacy, monetary systems & the path forward

In Episode 11, Christopher Smith sits down with creator and strategist Sujal Lethwani to unpack how he built a 200,000-follower personal brand and a network reaching over 4 million people — all beginning as a 15-year-old posting motivational content from his bedroom.

Sujal shares the mindset, systems, failures, bans, rebuilds, and algorithmic insights that shaped his rise on Instagram, as well as the deeper story of going from a self-described "loser" in school to a leader with global reach.

This episode explores his journey through content creation, Network School, mentorship, decentralization, and the psychology behind building a long-term personal brand in the age of platform risk.

A fast-paced and inspiring conversation for creators, builders, and anyone trying to understand how attention actually works online.

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Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sujal.jethwani

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Tech Support – https://t.me/quantustechsupport
Announcements – https://t.me/quantusannouncements

⏱ Chapters

(00:00) Opening Story & Sujal's Early Motivation
(00:04) Meeting Sujal & His First Instagram Experiments
(00:09) Balaji, Network School & Moving to Dubai
(00:14) From 15-Year-Old "Loser" to Building a Community
(00:18) Global Markets: US/UK Demand, Bans & Platform Limits
(00:23) Hacks, Recoveries & Reinventing Your Brand
(00:28) Platform Dynamics: YouTube, Instagram & Permissions
(00:32) Decentralization, Nostr & Who Owns Your Followers
(00:37) Governance, Network Effects & Metcalfe's Law
(00:41) The Three-Part Framework: Foundation, Exploration, Transformation
(00:46) Culture, Diwali, Personal Philosophy & What Comes Next

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (Oct 2025)

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In this episode of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith sits down with Jake Explains — a creator whose path is anything but ordinary. Jake went from becoming the #3 RuneScape player in the world, mastering systems and optimization at an early age, to building a career in optical engineering, teaching astronomy, and finally becoming one of the fastest-growing creators in global education and geopolitics.

Jake describes how years of obsessive gameplay developed the ability to model systems, analyze incentives, and think strategically — the same mental tools he now uses to engineer viral content. He discusses the transition from aerospace and optical engineering into media, and how mastering hooks, pacing, curiosity loops, and storytelling structure turned his short-form videos into a global learning channel.

The conversation expands into quantum computing platforms — from photonic systems to NMR and topological qubits — along with the fundamentals of laser technology and the intersections between physics, engineering, and future cryptography. Jake also explores the psychology of human attention, why 99% of people interact with your brand for under a second, why he moved from space content to geopolitics, and what he's learned from building intentional communities around the world.

They dive deep into the American diet crisis, Jake's move to Asia, how environment rewires health, and why real-life community is critical for mental wellbeing in an age of digital overstimulation. The episode ties together systems thinking, global trends, technical depth, and the art of storytelling — through the lens of someone who has mastered multiple domains.

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YouTube: @JakeExplains
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Announcements — https://t.me/quantusannouncements

Chapters

00:00 — RuneScape mastery & learning to think in systems
02:00 — From engineering to content creation
04:00 — How virality works & why attention is everything
06:00 — The shift from space content to geopolitics
08:00 — What five-hour production workflows taught him
12:00 — Lasers, optical engineering & the physics behind his career
16:00 — Quantum computing platforms explained
20:00 — The American diet crisis & moving to Asia
24:00 — Community living, mental health & the digital age
28:00 — The future of encryption & quantum-era security

From The Quantus Podcast – Network School Series (Oct 2025)

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In this episode of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith and Joe Mattia sit down with Sara in WonderTech for a deeply curious conversation about AI, psychedelics, childhood development, self-awareness, cybernetics, and the ways the human mind learns, adapts, and transforms.

Sara brings insight from her background in machine learning, consciousness exploration, meditation, psychology, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), blending scientific thinking with personal experience in a way that feels both grounded and adventurous.

The discussion moves through how AI relates to human intelligence, how psychedelics can act as tools for introspection, and how meditation, confusion tolerance, and embodied awareness shape the way we learn. They explore childhood, trauma, identity, and consciousness, as well as cybernetics, feedback loops, and the idea of self-programming. The conversation also touches on what it means to "upgrade" the mind and how awareness influences creativity and intelligence.

This episode is a journey through technology, philosophy, psychology, and the strange edges of human potential.

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Sara in WonderTech
Instagram – @sarainwondertech

Christopher Smith
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Quantus Network
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https://www.quantus.com/
https://t.me/quantusnetwork
https://linktr.ee/quantusnetwork

Chapters

00:00 — Introduction & Background
02:00 — AI → Crypto: Why Chris Made the Switch
04:00 — Early Bitcoin, Mt. Gox & the 2012 Origin Story
06:00 — Money, Fairness & "Fix the Money, Fix the World"
08:00 — Psychedelics, Mind Exploration & Early Influences
10:00 — Consciousness, Cybernetics & the Human Biocomputer
14:00 — Trauma, Parts Work & Internal Family Systems
18:00 — Meditation, Awareness & Body-Based Intelligence
22:00 — Confusion Tolerance & Learning Like a Child
26:00 — AI, Intelligence & the Limits of Generalization
30:00 — Creativity, Self-Reflection & Rewriting Inner Code

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies. Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

In this episode, Christopher Smith and Joe Mattia sit down with John Kim inside the Quantus Network School Podcast Studio

Over steaming cups of tea, John shares a lifetime of insights spanning venture capital, AI, Korean history, travel, psychedelics, creativity, brain modularity, complexity theory, and how human connection shapes identity and health.

This is one of the most wide-ranging and human conversations yet — blending technology, culture, empathy, and transformation.

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John Kim
Website – https://www.johnkim.co/

Christopher Smith
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Quantus Network
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https://www.quantus.com/
https://t.me/quantusnetwork
https://linktr.ee/quantusnetwork

Chapters

00:00 — Introduction & Welcome
02:00 — John's Background: VC, AI & Building Across Industries
06:00 — Korean Family History & Visiting North Korea
10:00 — Language, Culture & How Communication Shapes Thought
14:00 — AI and the Future of Language Learning
20:00 — Tech, Empathy & Human Connection
30:00 — Psychedelics & Personal Transformation
40:00 — Brain Modularity, Autism & Creativity
50:00 — Complexity Theory & Defining Health
59:00 — Closing Thoughts

🎥 The Quantus Podcast — Network School Series (Sept 2025)
Network School brings together remote workers, digital nomads, creators, personal trainers, self-improvers, event organizers, and engineers — all collaborating to build themselves up while building the next generation of startup societies.

Founded by Balaji Srinivasan — https://x.com/balajis

📍 Recorded Sept 2025 in the Quantus popup studio at Network School, Forest City.

What happens when quantum computing, AI surveillance, and open-source movements collide?

In this episode of The Quantum Podcast, Christopher Smith (founder of Quantus Network) and Joe Mattia explore how the next generation of cryptography, privacy tools, and open protocols will determine the balance between control and freedom in the digital world.

From hidden vulnerabilities inside Bitcoin and stablecoin minting keys, to NSA secrecy, Signal's post-quantum upgrade, and the philosophy behind open source — this is a deep, technical, yet very human discussion about power, transparency, privacy, and trust.

They break down everything from "save now, decrypt later" attacks, to AI automating law, to the broken economics of intellectual property, and why encryption is ultimately about human dignity.

A must-watch for anyone thinking about the future of security, surveillance, and freedom in the quantum era.

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Christopher Smith
https://x.com/YuviLightman

Joe Mattia
https://x.com/JoeMattia

Quantus Network
https://www.quantus.com/
https://t.me/quantusnetwork
https://linktr.ee/quantusnetwork

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – Entering the real world of quantum computing
02:00 – Bitcoin mining myths vs digital signature reality
04:00 – Stablecoin minting keys & catastrophic vulnerabilities
06:00 – NSA secrecy, intelligence agencies & the hidden quantum race
08:00 – "Save now, decrypt later" and post-quantum messaging
10:00 – WhatsApp, Signal & the slow death of privacy
13:00 – AI surveillance, metadata & the illusion of consent
16:00 – AI as your lawyer: automation, bureaucracy & legal disruption
19:00 – Intellectual property, open source & why information wants to live
23:00 – Cryptography, dignity & the next generation of digital freedom