Writing
Essays and notes on technology, teams, and building things.
- Getting AI to Improve Itself How a custom handoff command and project diary made my AI collaboration compound over time.
- Tokens and Communities: the existential question in crypto Can DAOs bring virtue back to scaled organization, or will tokens accelerate economics-only mentalities?
- Data composability: what it is and why it matters How composable data infrastructure enables permissionless innovation and why it matters for the next generation of the web.
- Identity as Information Reframing digital identity not as a credential to verify but as information to manage, share, and compose.
- Web3: a route to harness the web's Natural Monopolies Framing big tech's power to de-platform through the lens of natural monopolies, and how Web3 data interoperability can restore competition.
- Demystifying Digital Identity Breaking down the requirements, components, and options for digital and decentralized identity systems.
- The Short and Long of It: social coordination in times of crisis How COVID-19 exposes the false tradeoff between coordination and liberty, and why decentralized infrastructure is the long-term solution.
- Remembering the 'human factor' in tech networks Why designing tech networks around actual human behavior — not rational-agent models — leads to better systems.
- Entering the age of data privacy How regulation, emerging tech, and shifting public sentiment are converging to reshape data privacy.
- Joining Consensys & decentra-mania Reflections on joining the Ethereum ecosystem and why decentralized technology matters for human coordination.