Alex Wittenberg

The tools for public conversation should exist outside of private companies as common infrastructure, like the Internet itself. An open and durable decentralized protocol for public conversations can allow users a choice in their experience, creators control over their relationships with their audience, and developers freedom to innovate without... See more

So a surprisingly effective antidote to anxiety can be to simply realize that this demand for reassurance from the future is one that will definitely never be satisfied—no matter how much you plan or fret, or how much extra time you leave to get to the airport. You can’t know that things will turn out all right. The struggle for certainty is an... See more

These technological advances come at a time when the need for mental health care is particularly acute: According to a report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five adults in the United States experienced mental illness in 2020. And the numbers continue to climb.

Broadly, there are 4 outputs from meetings:

Our advice: require contributors and other governance participants to disclose their conflicts of interest for meaningful conflicts (e.g., investments that are >1% of their net worth).

Faster and leaner companies build more new building blocks.

Although decentralized identity (DID) has been a largely overlooked topic compared to DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs, we view it as a critical technological primitive that enables native Web3 applications. If we create a shared, flexible, and resilient identity layer, we can drastically unlock the pace of innovation by creating a wider design space.

Miners’ key objective is to maximize profits from their mining operations. As such, they benefit from higher network activity (higher demand for block space results in higher tip + higher base fee burn), as well as higher ETH price (since all fees earned by miners are denominated in ETH but mining operating costs are denominated in fiat).... See more

When you feedback work, it's usually easier to discuss the context objectively than the person themselves