I tend to get excited about infrastructure, governance, and the economics of the internet. I work in research at Protocol Labs and often write about these dynamics in open source.
I give away money to strangers on the internet.
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I’ve been trying to understand why the threat of forks is so frequently discussed by cryptocurrency projects, compared to open source at large.
Adarsh Pandit recently introduced me to the concept of the “gentleman scientist”: a researcher who funds their work independently. After digging around a bit, I was fascinated to learn that independent researchers were fairly common in the 18th and 19th centuries.
I recently watched App: The Human Story, which I discovered via The Developers Union, a group of app developers formed to negotiate better policies with Apple.