// thoughts & ideas
Writing
From time to time, I gather my thoughts and write them down. Essays and musings on technology, community, Web3, and the future of how we exist on the web.
// entries
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$HIGHER & the Case for Staying on Base (for Now)
Why momentum, not migration, should guide our next move. I don't believe we should migrate the token yet — there's still so much we can unlock right here, right now.
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Game Theory & The Likelihood of Authoritarian Outcomes
I studied political science, and game theory is the lens I still reach for. Here I model 100 scenarios to examine how democratic norms might erode or endure — and what we can actually do about it.
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Let's talk about Money Laundering in Crypto
Many legislators believe crypto is primarily a vehicle for money laundering. So I went and looked at the numbers — $800 billion to $2 trillion a year in fiat, against $22.2 billion in crypto.
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Gather DAO Concept
A thought experiment inspired by MolochDAO — raise and generate funds with the sole intention of giving them all away, in this case to fund and facilitate web3 communities gathering in real life.
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So long, Twitter. It's been real.
Fifteen years and nearly 30,000 tweets after signing up on a Blackberry Bold at 2am, a fond farewell to the platform Twitter used to be — and where I am headed instead.
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Crypto Goes to Washington DC & a Lesson on Electricity
More than 45 innovators went to Capitol Hill to talk crypto regulation. That sent me down a rabbit hole on S.661 and a simple question: how does crypto energy use compare to the appliances already in your kitchen?
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ChatGPT's SQL Bootcamp
A direct report wanted to learn SQL, so I asked ChatGPT to write a 10-week university syllabus. What came back was genuinely good — here it is in full, along with what it taught me about writing better prompts.
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