Operator, founder, and author writing from the Pacific Northwest. Thirty years at the edge of the web — from building CMS platforms in the early 2000s to steering decentralized governance research today.
Currently President of the DCF and founder of Plebis, a platform for AI-powered governance intelligence.
This site is a journal: long-form essays on governance, protocol design, and the quiet plumbing of the decentralized web. Plus occasional field reports from the PNW — on running small companies, raising a family at altitude, and reading widely.
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Governance Exploits in Disguise
In April 2022, an attacker drained approximately $182 million from Beanstalk Farms, an algorithmic stablecoin protocol, netting roughly $80 million after …
Lessons Learned from the First Wave of Experiments with AI in Governance
Something important has quietly broken in the world of decentralized governance. The early wave of AI-assisted governance tooling, designed to fix the …