Incentive Design

I’m increasingly of the belief that incentive design is the most important problem to work on. Humans are good at overcoming obstacles when they have reason to do so — the worst problems tend to be ones of cooperation, not technological or scientific understanding.

reputation comes from sustained integrity over time this is where DAO contribution tracking, rewarding small, game-able actions, often gets it wrong

Does crypto improve distribution for creators? Maybe, maybe not (thread)

For products to work at scale they need sustainable business models and networks. Would love to see more discourse in web3 about the complex financial incentives conflicts that we’re going to see if the movement goes beyond DeFi/trading-related use cases. A few examples👇