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What I’m building now
Musings
I modeled wrench attacks. Privacy makes them worse.
A model of who wrench attacks target, and why hiding balances does not fix the underlying custody problem.
Network vs Ecosystem Effects
Network effects bring people in. Ecosystem effects give their money somewhere useful to stay.
Towards Link-Based Transfer Abstraction
Why a payment link can carry the intent while the recipient chooses how and where to receive the money.
Travel notes and other digressions still live on Substack →
Earlier experiments
Some worked. Some didn’t. All of them taught me something.
Let’s Phi
2020Result: Built a community of 1,800 academic philosophers with non-academic careers.
Lesson: A narrow audience can still make a large, useful community.
Knit
2020Result: A failed virtual-events B2B SaaS that reached 10,000+ users before we shut it down.
Lesson: Usage is not the same thing as a durable business.
Open Blues
2016Result: Cofounded a volunteer-run blues festival that attracts dancers from five continents.
Lesson: A committed community can build things nobody would commission.
Radowid
2016Result: Built and shut down a luxury silk brand.
Lesson: Don’t solo-found.