Building a country. Liberland. Writing The Freeist on broadening individual freedom. Helping nomads bank outside the EU 🇬🇪 . Based in Georgia since 2020.

Liberland
Joined December 2021
Freedom is built. At Liberland’s 10th anniversary, I introduced The Freeist: a concept shaped by what I embody, what I live, and my deep study of what still holds freedom-seekers back, even when they’re done waiting for permission.
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I feel scared to write the obvious that's 'understandable to everyone'. The problem is the more I am on my own the more I loop in my thinking and zoom in so EVERYTHING feels obvious to me. Then I remember how the simple, clear writing is always bringing unusual insights. Go.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
Replying to @skscartoon
The endless slaughter of Ukrainian and Russians must stop. We should some sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts too. Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes.
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Lock in. Disappear from the world, tie yourself to the desk. Sleep, eat, work out, work, repeat. No relationship, no family, no friends. Usually, this is called obsessive-compulsive character, if it uses productivity and discipline to manage anxiety and emotions.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
I've been actively fighting almost guaranteed age-related loneliness for years, studies show after age 30 you start seeing friends less and when you get older especially men don't have any social life left! It's preventable, but it takes effort and initiative We've now organized 70 weekly coworking days where we meet with friends and work together, do show and tell, and try help each other make things (also hardware stuff more recently) We've also started organizing movie nights, art nights, barbecues, we watched the World Cup final on a projector screen in the garden with friends We did a collage night the other day where we bought cheap gossip magazines, colored paper, and Pritt glue, and gave everyone scissors to make their own art, I think nobody spent time on their phone for at least 4 hours, making things puts you in a flow state and it's fun to do it in a group because you talk about different stuff while making things than you would for ex having a dinner Movie nights are nice too but less popular I think cause everyone prefers to watch movies alone and also you can't really talk during a movie Coworkings range from having sometimes 20 people to sometimes just 2 people, people have their own lives, but me and @rameerez still try to organize them weekly One thing I realized is that we are usually the ones organizing stuff, but that's not a bad thing, there's even studies about this, there's usually a few people in a group who organize most of the events If nobody in your group organizes stuff, it doesn't mean nobody wants to do stuff, but you have to take the initiative to bring people together which isn't easy in a time where phones and apps and the internet are simply easier and cheaper dopamine than driving to a friends house for a party You can start with a coworking day, everyone brings their laptop, and you provide WiFi and coffee, then later you can try more types of events Having an active social life is just as important or in some studies even more important for health than physical fitness After a nice party I feel tired but satisfied, I had fun and didn't spend time on my phone or computer but instead talked and laughed with friends etc. We don't drink alcohol with very few exceptions and nor do our friends, so it's mostly just having really nice food and sparkling water or kombucha etc, and we don't really need alcohol, after a few hours it gets fun enough anyway! So I recommend everyone, take initiative, and organize something and get people together, it'll be fun! 😊
Great article on increasing solitude of our societies, in this case US but same probably in EU to a lesser extent: "Derek Thompson's essay "You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner" argues that Americans have largely stopped having people over. The headline stat comes from combining the old DDB Needham Life Style surveys Robert Putnam used in *Bowling Alone* with a new replication by Data For Progress. The share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly fell from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026, roughly a 70% drop. Most other forms of socializing also fell by double digits over the last 30 years, including cards, bars, sporting events, and volunteering. The decline in hosting was steeper than the much-discussed drop in church attendance. He rules out two comforting explanations. People haven't just moved dinners to restaurants, since solo dining is rising and face-to-face socializing is down overall. They also haven't replaced parties with other social activities. Exercise and travel are up, but exercise is mostly solitary, and time spent at home has jumped sharply since the 2010s. His explanations: 1. Harried dual-earner households. As societies get richer, leisure starts to feel like work, and planning a dinner party is basically unpaid project management. Women historically ran the family social calendar. When they moved into paid work, men didn't take over that job. He admits this can't be the whole story, because total leisure time has actually increased. 2. Intensive parenting. Parents, especially fathers, now spend far more time with their kids, and that time comes out of evenings that used to go to hosting adults. 3. Shrinking friend networks. Close friendships are declining, most sharply among people without college degrees, so hosting is becoming a luxury good. People who never host skew toward independents and non-graduates. He speculates that weaker social ties may lead to weaker party attachment, rather than the other way around. 4. Home is too comfortable. Americans spent almost two extra hours a day at home between 2003 and 2022, much of it on screens and short-form video. His closing idea is a "Lump of Leisure" theory, a twist on the Lump of Labor fallacy. Technology hasn't made human work unnecessary, but it has made other people less necessary for fun. Social leisure turns out to be finite and easy to displace. He frames this as a coordination failure rather than a personal one: a dinner party requires schedules, cleaning, food, allergies, and the risk of a dull evening, while TikTok asks nothing of you. A footnote adds that if everyone gets a bit busier, the difficulty of coordinating a get-together rises multiplicatively, so small increases in individual busyness could produce large drops in socializing overall." derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
a lot of dev types are suffering from cognitive dissonance historically, the deal was simple: > get good at coding > be compensated well for it > potentially launch a saas & the only marketing you do is talking about new features or product hunt launches that reality is gone and will never return developers are now competing against an armada of marc lou's, all of whom are substantially better at drawing attention the only thing they're left with is crying out in public because deep down they know they are - and possibly never will be - as great of a marketer as marc is
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
Very very true Lots of money if you go IRL industries now Instead of selling tech to tech people who won't buy anything because they just vibe code it themselves
I think a lot of people also get caught up in looking at people like you doing what you do and think that their only path forward is the same kind of 'sexy' projects that get 50k users overnight (without realising it took a decade of grinding to get there). No-one wants to work on the unsexy problems for boring industries. Vet clinics, pest care, HOA/community management, self storage, funeral homes, linen rental - boring stuff through which billions of dollars are flowing.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
⚠️ ALERT: Revolut falls for a FAKE government request, exposing sensitive personal information of customers in a disturbing data breach. Revolut disclosed that it complied with a fraudulent government request using a spoofed official email and valid credentials, exposing PII belonging to a group of customers. The leaked data reportedly includes passports/driving licences, verification selfies, names, DOBs, occupations, home addresses, emails, phone numbers, IBANs, account statements and full transaction histories, including Bitcoin activity. No customer funds were reportedly lost and Revolut says its systems were not hacked. The company has notified affected users and regulators and blocked the source. Social-engineering attacks are on the rise, with attackers increasingly exploiting human trust and weak verification processes rather than technical vulnerabilities.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
Replying to @wilderko
“it is not for control, but for your consumer protection”
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
This is brutal — the EU is forcing banks outside the EU to stop providing core banking services to EU residents, unless those banks set up a licensed branch inside the EU. Note that what matters is your residence, not your passport — an EU citizen who is tax resident elsewhere is not affected. If you want to avoid trouble opening an account with any non-EU bank in the future, I recommend securing residency outside the EU (we'll gladly help with Paraguay, Uruguay or Panama). As an EU resident, you may already run into problems opening a bank account outside the EU from next year. EU Directive 2024/1619 ("CRD VI") introduces a new Article 21c. From 11 January 2027, it prohibits banks established outside the EU from providing core banking services — including deposit-taking — to clients established or situated in the European Union, unless the bank operates a licensed branch in the relevant member state.
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if all your bank accounts are in the EU, all your money is dependent on one jurisdiction
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
🇵🇱🇪🇺 Poland is officially exempted from the EU's mandatory migrant relocation quota under the New Migration and Asylum Pact, nor will it pay fines for refusing to take them. Normally, the pact forces EU member states to either accept a specific quota of migrants from frontline nations or contribute a €20,000 financial equivalent per rejected individual. Poland is entirely exempt from both.
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my concept (and future book) The Freeist at @CNN from the reportage about @Liberland_org
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
I’m I can’t say I live in I can’t say I work in multiple languages My wife is I can’t say (do I even have a wife?) My company is in I can’t say I'm currently traveling in I can’t say My friends are from all over the world Loose lips 👄 sink ships 🚢 my friends
I'm French I live in Cyprus I work in English My wife is Korean My company is in Singapore I'm currently traveling in China My friends are from all over the world
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
🚨 Service Info: Wir stellen im Copiaro Shop den Versand ins EU-Ausland bis auf Weiteres ein. Die neue EU-Verpackungsverordnung PPWR verlangt ab 12.08. in jedem Zielland eigene Registrierung, Systembeteiligung und Bevollmächtigten. 🤯 Der Versand nach Deutschland und in Drittländer ist davon nicht betroffen. 👍 RIP freier Warenverkehr in der EU.🤡 Mehr dazu im Blog… 👇👇👇
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
Replying to @blocktrainer
EU Ziel erreicht - die kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen werden systematisch plattgemacht und am Ende bleiben nur noch Amazon und Co. - dazu noch KI Kennzeichnungspflicht bei Bildern in Shops Datenschutz-Irrsinn etc.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
Germany started with this packaging bullshit, it was super hard to ship books for me to Germany (but some people got Cryptocurrencies and Tamers of Entropy). Now this has expanded to whole EU and it's completely retarded. EU is regulating itself into irrelevance. What a completely batshit crazy idea, only politicians or career bureaucrats that have never created anything useful in their lives could have invented this.
🚨🚨🚨🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 Auch wir bei Blocktrainer sind von der neuen EU-Verpackungsregulierung betroffen und leider hat das auch ganz konkrete Konsequenzen für unseren Shop. Seit dem heutigen 12. August 2026 sorgt die EU-Verpackungsverordnung (PPWR) beim grenzüberschreitenden Versand an Endkunden für erheblichen zusätzlichen regulatorischen Aufwand. Wer Waren direkt in andere EU-Mitgliedstaaten versendet, muss sich mit den jeweiligen nationalen Vorgaben des Ziellandes auseinandersetzen. Dazu gehören nun unter anderem Registrierungspflichten, Systembeteiligungen, Mengenmeldungen und die Benennung eines Bevollmächtigten. Und zwar nicht einmal zentral für die gesamte EU, was ja irgendwie noch akzeptabel wäre, sondern für jedes einzelne Land separat. 🤦 Das bedeutet in der Praxis: Aus einem eigentlich simplen Versand eines Buches, unseres „Blocktrainer Terminals“ oder eines anderen Artikels aus unserem Shop wird plötzlich ein regulatorisches Projekt mit unterschiedlichen Registern, Dienstleistern, Meldepflichten, laufenden Gebühren und möglichen Sanktionen in zahlreichen Ländern. Und irgendwann muss man sich als Unternehmen dann auch die Frage stellen, ob dieser Aufwand noch in irgendeinem vernünftigen Verhältnis zu den dort erzielten Umsätzen steht. Für uns lautet die Antwort für einen Großteil der EU aktuell leider: Nein! Deshalb haben auch wir uns dazu entschieden, den Versand aus unserem Shop in andere EU-Länder bis auf Weiteres einzustellen. Eine Ausnahme machen wir für Österreich. Dort werden wir uns durch das regulatorische Wirrwarr arbeiten und die notwendigen Anforderungen erfüllen. Natürlich nicht, weil der bürokratische Aufwand dort weniger oder sinnvoller wäre, sondern schlicht deshalb, weil unsere Verkaufszahlen in Österreich groß genug sind, um diesen zusätzlichen Aufwand wirtschaftlich noch zu rechtfertigen. Für viele andere EU-Länder sieht diese Rechnung jedoch vollkommen anders aus. Das Absurde daran ist ja, dass die Europäische Union eigentlich einen gemeinsamen Binnenmarkt schaffen möchte, in dem Waren möglichst unkompliziert über Grenzen hinweg verkauft werden können. In der Realität entstehen für kleinere Händler aber zunehmend nationale Registrierungen, unterschiedliche Verfahren, zusätzliche Dienstleister und damit auch laufende Kosten. Das Team von unserem Partner @copiaro hat die Problematik in einem ausführlichen Beitrag sehr gut zusammengefasst. Man sieht wieder toll, was für ein Schwachsinn entsteht, wenn Regulierung zwar auf europäischer Ebene beschlossen wird, die praktische Umsetzung aber zu einem Flickenteppich aus nationalen Anforderungen führt. Große Konzerne können dafür Compliance-Abteilungen aufbauen und die Kosten tragen und rechtfertigen. Kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen müssen dagegen irgendwann einzelne Märkte abschalten. Und genau das tun wir jetzt, schweren Herzens. ⬇️ 🇩🇪 Deutschland: Versand wie gewohnt. 🇦🇹 Österreich: Versand bleibt bestehen und wir nehmen den zusätzlichen Aufwand auf uns. 🇪🇺 Andere EU-Länder: vorerst kein Versand mehr! Wir hoffen natürlich, dass sich die Situation künftig vereinfacht und wir den Versand wieder auf weitere Länder ausweiten können. Bis dahin bleibt uns allerdings nichts anderes übrig, als unsere Ressourcen dort einzusetzen, wo der regulatorische Aufwand noch in einem vertretbaren Verhältnis zur Nachfrage steht. Schade für unsere Kunden. Schade für kleinere Händler. Und vor allem eine ziemlich besch***e Entwicklung für den sogenannten europäischen Binnenmarkt. 😡 Euer Blocktrainer-Team
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
Everything is moatless. Except having the balls to do what AI would never suggest.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
We won’t be able to avoid Chat Control and government/corporate surveillance in the future. But we can render that surveillance worthless. A censor’s database is only valuable if what’s in it actually means something. An AI agent nullifies the evidentiary value of everything they’ve collected about you. Let’s contaminate the censors! The new privacy rule for the AI era is: Any intercepted communication must always be AI-generated. contaminatecensors.org/ In the coming weeks, I’ll be publishing a set of AI prompts on notme.chat/ that will replace all of your (Chat Control) potentially spied-on communications with AI agents who will explain to your friends and acquaintances that they can only reach you via a secure messenger. If it’s not end-to-end encrypted, it’s not you.
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Samuela Davidova | The Freeist retweeted
🇬🇪Georgia is becoming a major business hub. The country’s economy doubled in 5 years and is growing by 8% a year. International tech companies pay 0% corporate tax and just 5% on dividends and salaries. Georgia is seriously underrated as a place to visit and do business.
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