About
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.
Other Projects
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.
Consulting
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 work on their narrative 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 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.
