Last year, me and [redacted] came together to build a proposal for a large L2 organization. We put together a vision and key questions on what it would take to build a DAO. It was expansive and successful. A side-effect of this process, and the design exercise since then, is that it has forced me to articulate the crucial parts of building Networke

Recently I saw a social media post that claimed: “chat” might be legitimately be the first dedicated 4th person pronoun. This has triggered a series of realisations, one of which highlights a design flaw in modern business productivity software. https://twitter.com/angeisighting/status/1729843603587960989 To understand the flaw, we need to compare

An Emerging Product Class: Digital Public Utilities Tornado Cash is a set of autonomous smart contracts on Ethereum that help users preserve their privacy. Tornado Cash was revolutionary, but not just because of its functionality. It is an example of an emerging product category: Digital Public Utilities. Digital Public Utilities are neutral and de

What would it look like to design a generative brand? Instead of a logo and approved assets, can we design a language that can compose a web of attuned media? In this case we wouldn’t be selecting a font but a family of fonts. In the same way, we could select a group of artists or artistic movements. Finally we can select or create UNICODE iconogra

I whisper to myself: “There is no spoon.” I hold the utensil in my hand and its concept in my mind. The spoon is normal: silver, metal, unremarkable. I bought this one at IKEA, a store known for the universal nature of their products. Their motto echoes in my mind: “Democratic Design”. Or maybe the spoon is part of a wedding gift? The memory slips