About

President of the DCF, where I lead research on decentralized governance. Founder of Plebis, an AI-powered governance intelligence platform. Writing a new book on protocol-level legitimacy.

Twenty years building content management platforms and open-source software. Long stretches living abroad — Southeast Asia, Europe — before settling back in the PNW. Seven books on CMS, collaboration, and the social web.

Governance & legitimacy. Protocol design. Small companies. Long-form writing. Hiking the Olympic Peninsula. Reading across the stack — philosophy, systems theory, political economy.

GitHub, LinkedIn, and the occasional conference stage. For correspondence, see the contact page.