Belief systems + web3 (...and magic)
Context: most weeks, I go to Gitcoin’s Public Library, a nourishing Wednesday chat where a different host proposes an obsession or idea and the group talks it through. This is a write-up of mine — not a formal talk or proposal as such, but a funny fragment of an idea that’s been circulating around my head. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with TV magicians. I grew up in a very small village in the English countryside in the 1980s and I spent a lot of that decade watching cheesy older men in s...
Belief systems + web3 (...and magic)
Context: most weeks, I go to Gitcoin’s Public Library, a nourishing Wednesday chat where a different host proposes an obsession or idea and the group talks it through. This is a write-up of mine — not a formal talk or proposal as such, but a funny fragment of an idea that’s been circulating around my head. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with TV magicians. I grew up in a very small village in the English countryside in the 1980s and I spent a lot of that decade watching cheesy older men in s...
A starter kit for building community strategy
For years now, I’ve led or sat in on brainstorming sessions with many different types of company or project in my angel portfolio and network - from virtual student study startups to web3 gamers to data storytelling nonprofits to venture firms - where each is trying to answer the same question: How on earth do I start with community strategy? By this, I mean these companies or projects know true community building could be brilliant for deepening engagement and weaving their network more clos...
A starter kit for building community strategy
For years now, I’ve led or sat in on brainstorming sessions with many different types of company or project in my angel portfolio and network - from virtual student study startups to web3 gamers to data storytelling nonprofits to venture firms - where each is trying to answer the same question: How on earth do I start with community strategy? By this, I mean these companies or projects know true community building could be brilliant for deepening engagement and weaving their network more clos...
On autumn 2021, and time out
“What are you working on right now?” “Are you on sabbatical? Does that mean you’re going back to your old job?” “Are you taking time out? Why?” So many questions like this recently, and I always hear a hidden set of questions and anxieties behind them — on money, productivity and privilege. It’s the Christmas break and I don’t have time for a longer piece on productivity, rest & who gets to do it, and why we’re still asking these questions as we enter the third year of a pandemic, but I wante...
On autumn 2021, and time out
“What are you working on right now?” “Are you on sabbatical? Does that mean you’re going back to your old job?” “Are you taking time out? Why?” So many questions like this recently, and I always hear a hidden set of questions and anxieties behind them — on money, productivity and privilege. It’s the Christmas break and I don’t have time for a longer piece on productivity, rest & who gets to do it, and why we’re still asking these questions as we enter the third year of a pandemic, but I wante...
