Alex Wittenberg

On the other hand, Time Magazine minted an NFT collection. Time is not a tokenized community. The community at-large has not adopted the token as a means of organizing around the brand in any meaningful way. 

Create a DAO that looks by all respects like a traditional organization except that it uses tokens for ownership and governance.

What does it mean for a community to be tokenized? Simply put, tokenization implies that a community is using a token as its primary means of coordination. The token is a proxy for some larger meme or set of values.

In a discussion that has nothing to do with technology, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote about a tendency to become “forgetful of our bodies.” Perhaps that’s a good way of putting this tendency to assume that digital culture is immaterial and disembodied. We never leave our bodies when we are immersed in digitally mediated experiences, but... See more

Headlines that try to be clever almost always end up falling short. The point doesn't get through to the reader. The joke or pun falls flat. And as a result, readers end up confused—and if the reader is confused, their default answer is, "No," as they scroll past your content and move on to someone else's.Instead, it's far more effective to... See more

Max supply is fairly simple. What is the maximum potential supply of this token? For Bitcoin it’s 21,000,000. Ethereum doesn’t have one. For Crypto Raiders we set it at 100,000,000. For Yearn it’s 36,666.

Funding the organization and creating an engaged community requires broad reach to the right audience. We recommend doing this by clearly defining (and publishing!) your narrative, story, and mission in public and at the right time.

I’m oversensitive to slights and minor humiliations, which means I’m wrongly inclined to see them as intentional rather than pedestrian acts of thoughtlessness, and I get easily overwhelmed, engulfed. I can almost never mentally justify answering a spontaneous phone call from a friend, and I have to force myself to phone and email them when I’m... See more

Questions for the candidateWhat criteria would you use to hire someone to do this job if you were in my seat?How would your spouse or sibling describe you with ten adjectives?I think we’re aligned in wanting this to be a good fit, you don’t want us to counsel you out in six months and neither do we. Let’s take the perspective of ourselves in six... See more