Using Cryptocurrency to Strong-Arm Prudent Policy Decisions
Summary: I believe that policymakers can leverage the benefits of transparency and neutrality offered by cryptocurrencies to better align economic incentives for prudent policy decisions.IncentivesAt their core, I think incentives represent a way to weaponize a personal psychology to get someone to act in a specific way. Most basically, this creates two corollaries: (i) The less someone originally wants to do something, the more powerful the psychological weapon has to be, and (ii) People who...
Using Cryptocurrency to Strong-Arm Prudent Policy Decisions
Summary: I believe that policymakers can leverage the benefits of transparency and neutrality offered by cryptocurrencies to better align economic incentives for prudent policy decisions.IncentivesAt their core, I think incentives represent a way to weaponize a personal psychology to get someone to act in a specific way. Most basically, this creates two corollaries: (i) The less someone originally wants to do something, the more powerful the psychological weapon has to be, and (ii) People who...
The Tarp Hypothesis
As I rode into the city, the opportunity was so palpable I could taste it. Tall buildings, busy people, high energy. I had never felt anything quite as powerful. I knew then that my life had leveled up.Summary: Trends are more likely to propagate from places with lots of people and higher information flow (duh).Introduction:New York City is massive and dense. If you walk through some of the more popular neighborhoods in Manhattan for a few days, chances are you will run into someone who is so...
The Tarp Hypothesis
As I rode into the city, the opportunity was so palpable I could taste it. Tall buildings, busy people, high energy. I had never felt anything quite as powerful. I knew then that my life had leveled up.Summary: Trends are more likely to propagate from places with lots of people and higher information flow (duh).Introduction:New York City is massive and dense. If you walk through some of the more popular neighborhoods in Manhattan for a few days, chances are you will run into someone who is so...
My Take on How People Process Information
As much as I hate to admit it, I think people are just wired differently from one another. One very interesting way this plays out is in the density of information a person prefers to interact with. I personally enjoy super dense inflows of information. Because even if at some point the processing of that information gets really tough, I believe that the ability to interpret information along many different levels facilitates broader access to learning and empathizing with others. But I have ...
My Take on How People Process Information
As much as I hate to admit it, I think people are just wired differently from one another. One very interesting way this plays out is in the density of information a person prefers to interact with. I personally enjoy super dense inflows of information. Because even if at some point the processing of that information gets really tough, I believe that the ability to interpret information along many different levels facilitates broader access to learning and empathizing with others. But I have ...
The Future of Hardware
Introduction:Web3 is limitless … kinda. One of the major bottlenecks in our interaction with web3 ecosystems is the noticeable lack of ideation in hardware. And I get it. Hardware is not nearly as sexy to scale and far tougher to start up. While a group of friends can band together and code a fully functional web application in one night, planning out and manufacturing even an MVP for hardware takes far more blood, sweat, and tears. To build out the requisite infrastructure to actually scale ...
The Future of Hardware
Introduction:Web3 is limitless … kinda. One of the major bottlenecks in our interaction with web3 ecosystems is the noticeable lack of ideation in hardware. And I get it. Hardware is not nearly as sexy to scale and far tougher to start up. While a group of friends can band together and code a fully functional web application in one night, planning out and manufacturing even an MVP for hardware takes far more blood, sweat, and tears. To build out the requisite infrastructure to actually scale ...
