I’m a software guy with about 20 years of experience.

In mid-2021 I quit my job at Apple, and now I’m looking for work in the web3/crypto/blockchain field. (Nothing against Apple, but I’d been there for ten years; it’s time for me to do something new, and blockchains are where the next iteration of our civilization is going to be built. I’d like to do something that matters.)

I’m particularly interested in crypto/blockchain/web3 jobs working in any of the following areas:

  • Making social-media less of a polarizing cesspool where mutually-hostile groups either fling poop at each other or split apart into echo chambers;
  • Creating new systems for funding public goods (as opposed to, say, expecting anything useful at all to be accomplished by our government);
  • Creating better systems for solving coordination problems that humanity has previously not had the tools to solve;
  • In general, creating new systems that resolve longstanding disputes between right and left (because crypto has the potential to make a lot of them moot).

General views on stuff:

  • Humanity is starting to face bigger and scarier challenges. Many of them are threats to our existence.
  • Our civilization is amazingly good, and we shouldn’t throw the good stuff out, but it’s also extremely broken in some ways. Our current institutions are not going to be adequately competent to get us through the upcoming threats.
  • Crypto is important. It isn’t just for tech nerds or financial speculators. You know how the Internet transformed everything? Crypto is going to be like that too. (The only way that doesn’t happen is if something even more transformative happens first, like general AI or nuclear war.)
  • Right-wing people are fine, left-wing people are fine. Lefties who hate righties, and righties who hate lefties, are not fine. A lot of the left/right arguments will become moot after crypto anyway; this is a good time to start building something better, rather than arguing over which of our inadequate legacy institutions is the least awful.
  • Also, extremists who want to burn down our civilization are not fine. Protesting and rioting is worse than useless. It’s important to point out problems with our current system, but please have the humility to build something better and then ask people to voluntarily switch to it. (This is exactly what the crypto world is doing.)
  • I dunno, maybe I’ll write more stuff later.