70,000+ parameters. 4,200+ metros. 237 countries.
A data-driven measure of what makes a city matter globally, assembled parameter by parameter across sixteen dimensions.
Explore the rankingsA studio for ideas, indices, and interfaces
Cities are the unit of civilization. Countries are accidents of it.
Citizen of Nowhere is where I think out loud about metros, movement, measurement, and the people who belong to all places and none. Some of that thinking becomes writing. Some of it becomes software.
Work
Currently liveIdentity. Consent. Audience. Activation. Measurement.
A fragmented fan-data stack resolved into one governed, activated, measurable system, built on the rankings dataset as a stand-in first-party audience: identity resolution, a consent gate, audience building with fan-level scores and plain-English queries, reverse-ETL activation, and lift measurement.
Open the StudioWriting
Notes, essays, field reports- Jul 2026
The Nowhere 100
Who Actually Runs the World, and Where That Power Sits
- Jun 2026
Every Champion Has a Hometown
What we have built since mid-June: a full sports atlas, mapped to the metros that host it.
- Jun 2026
The Velvet Rock Manifesto
The Architecture of Universal Order, and the Philosophy Beneath the Map
- Jun 2026
Introducing Zone Zero: A Sports Club for the Center of the Network
Citizen of Nowhere now has a sports identity. It belongs to the network, not the nation, and it begins by taking a name back.
- Jun 2026
The Geography of Erasure
Sport sells itself as a meritocracy. It is closer to a real estate game. Here are the champions the map forgot.
About
The phrase was meant as an insult. It was delivered from a podium, in a political speech, to describe people who considered themselves citizens of the world. The implication was that a person who belongs to everywhere belongs to nowhere, and therefore, to nothing.
I took the label and kept it, because I think the opposite is true. Someone who has lived in more than one country, who has worked across more than one language, who has built things for people who do not look like them, is not stateless in any diminished sense. They are simply loyal to the city and the idea rather than the flag.
This site is where I publish the work that follows from that orientation. Indices that take metros seriously as the organising unit of modern life. Essays on movement, measurement, and belonging. Software that makes it easier to see the world as it actually is, rather than as national summaries want you to see it.