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.

0/ Token incentives are a popular way to distribute ownership to people that provide a useful service But as we've seen, some of these distributions are easy to game and are less effective in hitting their key objectives Here's my framework for thinking about this 👇