I’ve committed my career to working alongside early-stage startups. I got my first exposure to startups at Miami Angels, an early-stage angel investor syndicate, but eventually, it became obvious that being an employee (or founder) of an early-stage startup made much more sense for me than being an investor.

Recently, I’ve felt disillusioned with crypto.

This week’s Lex Fridman episode with David Kipping was good, but not great.

This post was initially featured on Josh Stark’s Mirror profile as a co-authored piece between the two of us. I’m re-posting on my own Mirror page for the sake of posterity.

David Kerr and I wrote this piece on decentralization as the first in a limited series of overviews on DAO fundamentals. This series is the product of a collaboration between the DAO Research Collective and The Defiant. This piece was initially published to The Defiant on July 19, 2022.

In this guide, I define various complicated terms and compile useful diagrams to explain some of Ethereum’s most important conceptual topics in plain English.

I’ve spent the last few months working with Josh Stark at the Ethereum Foundation, specifically focusing on supporting projects like The Year in Ethereum 2021 and a handful of other smaller research pieces.