I work with founders and organizations, usually around cultural narrative and product strategy. I've worked extensively in the cryptocurrency space, am currently embedded in the mental health & wellness sector, and am generally very knowledgeable about cultural matters.

Projects usually happen when companies need to engage with broader narratives in some way, or engage creatively with an emerging technology problem. Many clients are going to market with a new product, repositioning, or making some other cultural strategy play. (I don't recommend writing brand manifestos, but last time I wrote one it apparently reached Kanye's eyes and he liked it.)

I prefer working 1-on-1 work with founders, or a small group of org leaders. The work usually starts as an onboarding workshop followed by regular meetings where we do serious thinking, and chat communication in between, until we reach a clear decision/strategy/whatever output product are we're working towards.

Among others, I've worked with leaders at Variant Fund, USB Club, One Fact Foundation, Are.na, Gitcoin, Brud, Interchain Foundation, 0x Protocol, Propel, and Genesis. I'm also an angel investor in some great startups.

My career has been a meandering one. I got my start with photoshop and illustrator in the heydays of gaming forums, and then leveled up to Android ROM flashing and designing apps in college. When I graduated I moved to New York and got a job as a product designer at a health tech company, then wound my way through various early-stage startups, freelance gigs, and creative communities in NYC. I co-organized entrepreneurial community Japan NYC Startups and helped run a few conferences.

During these years I started blogging at Subpixel Space. Then and now, my subject matter has always been culture, technology, aesthetics and spirituality. As I met more likeminded writer-technologists, I dreamed of a space for serious research and thinking outside the university. Eventually this led to co-founding Other Internet, a consulting-research-writing collective that evolved into a nonprofit research institute. I worked in the crypto space for several years, consulting for crypto organizations and leading Other Internet research projects.

Aside from serving as president, my personal work at Other Internet has focused on the new sorts of institutions enabled by protocols and cryptocurrency networks. We've funded and conducted research on many topics: from internet-native institutions and digital governance, to the lore and memory networks of online communities. We've sponsored art residencies and young thinkers, and prototyped alternative education models.

Wherever my career has taken me, it's because I've allowed my own curiosities to be in the driver's seat. I love ideas and philosophy and good discussion.

I mainly write at Care Culture right now, but occasionally post on my personal blog and for Other Internet. I've tackled a lot of different topics over the years, but a recurrent theme is how technology, moral principles, and social institutions shift and influence one another.

Here are some "greatest hits"—my more well-known cultural analysis:

• After Authenticity
• Life After Lifestyle
• The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
• Squad Wealth
• Crypto's Three-Body Problem

And here's some business-oriented pieces of writing:

• Headless Brands
• Market Protocol Fit

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I've given numerous talks and workshops for events and clients. To engage me about a speaking opportunity, please reach out directly. Here's a list of some talks and workshops I'm proud of from the last several years:

Body Futurism, FWB Fest (2024)
Networked Institutions, Greenpill Podcast (2023)
The Nature of the Protocol, Protocol Berg (2023)
Lifestyle, Lifeworlds, and the Fashion System, Business of Fashion Voices (2022)
Life After Lifestyle, FWB Fest (2022)
Morality and Market Failure, Schelling Point (2022)
Headless Brands Workshop, Ljubljana Biennale (2021)
The New Era of Trust, Refactor Camp (2019)
The Desire for Full Automation, Trust (2019)
Cult Design Workshop, Pioneer Works (2018)

Along with Tom Critchlow, I'm one of the creators of Quotebacks, an open-source tool for web-native quoting and conversation. We're not so good at maintaining it, but it's one of my favorite projects.

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