I am a freedom fighter creating tools for human liberation.
I believe that crypto is our chance to escape a technological dystopia and supersede the corrupt system that let it happen. We need open source technology with built-in economic incentives to propel the social change the world needs.
Because of that, I started Nation3 — a zero-tax, Web3-powered, solarpunk society.
Previously I cofounded Aragon, taking DAOs from $0 to their first $1bn in AUM, and Witnet. I am also an angel investor. Read on →
Featured writing
The New World Order
The dollar will lose hegemony. And western democracies might ban crypto to try to delay the inevitable.
20/03/2023The West is in ruins
Humankind is long-term default dead, and not default alive.
09/10/2022How to dethrone the gerontocracy
Our kids won’t live better than us if we don’t dethrone gerontocracy, but we can’t do it playing by their rules.
25/08/2022Starting Nation3: it’s time to reimagine nations
It’s time to debunk yet another dogma.
15/08/2022How boomers destroyed the West
Lately, I have been asking myself: why is art and culture worse today than a few decades ago?
05/04/2022The future that got stolen from us
Once upon a time, society saw technological progress as the way to free people from 9-to-5 jobs. Where did that dream go?
16/04/2021The sorry state of crypto UX
If we think mainstream users are going to use any of this, we have drunk too much kool aid. We need to take a 180-degree turn in our priorities
24/05/2020Telegram DAOs
Let's go where existing internet communities live and supercharge them with crypto. Let's take DAOs to Telegram!
30/04/2020The uncomfortable truth of college
Why it made sense in the Industrial Era, and why it doesn’t today
12/03/2018