Tom So

When I reflect on the lived experience of identity, I think of something that is complex, personal, intersectional, situational, intersubjective. It seems like the thing we are gesturing toward when we say “on-chain identity” is not this personal lived experience of identity, but something else. What is it?

When it comes to recognizing, classifying, and verifying identity on-chain, I see it being approached from two angles:1. The puppet view: identity-bearing agents are represented by explicit on-chain behavior sets.2. The puppeteer view: identity-bearing agents are represented by the inferred association of certain on-chain behaviors to off-chain... See more

A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this mess? Much easier to clear the forest and plant a legible “scientific” forest. Uniform rows of trees that produce good lumber. Now we can count the trees, make a map,... See more

Challenges of working with hardware, specially in healthcare

15: you might not want to be a manager, people treat you different, its a lot of work and its very heavy