Eugène Delacroix. “La Liberté guidant le peuple” (1830) United, we stand. Maximalist brainworms seem inevitable in a tribalistic society like ours, bu...

Cults Everything is a cult –– powered by human faith and devotion to keeping the bit going for as long as possible Indoctrination by incumbent cults...

The Big One Rumbling preceded the explosions; hopeless wailing followed. Chemicals, debris, and smoke filled the air –– a deadly haze of incalculable ...

Preamble; thank you 0xcarnation for teasing my limits and Kitsama for the “good shit” encouraging feedback. shoutout to zerotwross for dealing with my...

Atomic fission can power our species several lifetimes over, or end most of it in mere minutes. Crypto, like all technology, is neutral –– credibly so...

Spend more than a day on Ethereum’s Mainnet and you’ll realize gas fees are a bottleneck. These fees go to miners –– those providing computation power...

pend more than a day on Ethereum’s Mainnet and you’ll realize gas fees are a bottleneck. These fees go to miners –– those providing computation power ...

Spend more than a day on Ethereum’s Mainnet and you’ll realize gas fees are a bottleneck. These fees go to the miners –– those providing computation p...

DICEology –– Information Networks, Holo-Organizations, Unlimited Human Progress
 Current implementations of DAOs are flawed and no one has yet come cl...

“We are servants of the Secret Fire, wielders of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the S...

"Emergent System Maximalism" These are the closely related –– yet significantly different –– terms that I use to understand the impact of crypto. My g...

Web3 has succeeded in making “governance” cool again. Whether through ~~air~~ responsibility drops or treasury bribes, active participation has been b...

After posting about LCE in the CCS DAO Discord I connected with Olli Tiainen, author of a new public good: DIOs - Decentralized Impact Organizations. ...

The Graph Network exemplifies the benefits of web3: decentralized, permissionless, and composable. Several teams develop the product, anyone is free t...

In the summer of 2020 a group of residents in the city of Palo Alto set out on a noble mission: keep elected city officials accountable for their acti...