Hi, I’m Toby. I’m a researcher, writer, and technologist. I study how culture changes and how communities form, and technology's role in both. My work has been supported by Baukunst, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap Foundation, and others.
Previously, I cofounded Other Internet, a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute in the crypto space. We raised $1.1mm+ to coordinate open source protocol governance, design public goods funding programs, and study the cultural economy of blockchains.
My current research is focused on the question: what is the next generational paradigm in psychology? To understand this, I’m conducting embedded ethnographic research on wellness movements and spiritual communities, studying the history of Western psychology, and looking at changing notions of mental health. The home for this project is Care Culture.
This question has long term and short term considerations. The long term ones bring me very near to comparative religious studies. The short term ones center concerns such as improving health outcomes and care delivery today; this is where I'm currently putting my efforts.
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Email: tobyshorin@gmail.com
I live in San Francisco, CA.