How to make a decentralized organization that can change course nimbly. Maybe a fever dream, but I’m thinking about an approach for DAOs that can pivot without sacrificing decentralization. A few years ago, we were toying with the notion of what I was calling “two factor decision-making.” …

Another Story from the Near Future — I wrote this story in the summer of 2019 as we were cooking up the ideas that became the Baseline Protocol. I like writing the “product review from the near future” before the beginning of a project. It’s a good way to explore what could be good and what might…

Another Product Review from the Near Future — This story is fiction…until it isn’t: The list of great tools for Zoom just grows and grows. Many during the Covid-19 pandemic discovered the joys of magic backgrounds, and recently, Zoom added automatic voice transcription via Otter. Today, Zoom announced yet another innovation that I’m already having a hard time…

Statement of Intent of the Baseline Protocol TSC Chair — The Baseline Protocol community got underway a little over two weeks ago, and it has already shown tremendous activity. People and companies are showing great initiative. They are forming teams. They are identifying what needs to be done — and in what priority. …

Another Story from the Near Future, by ConsenSys Web3Studio — (All Web3Studio stories are fiction…until they’re not.) The problem with a lot of so-called blockchain token offerings is that they don’t have good, for lack of a better phrase, economic circuit design. …

Another Web3 Product Story by ConsenSys Web3Studio — (All Web3Studio stories are fiction…until they aren’t. This story is based on a world where the Ethereum blockchain was already around in the early 90s and could enable FanClub to support a young Derek Jeter in high school.) Do I know Derek Jeter? Let me tell you about Derek Jeter…

Another story from the near future by ConsenSys Web3Studio — Web3Studio stories are fiction…until they aren’t. Every software product is a set of choices. What’s essential? What’s the priority? What can we live without, and what will bog us down and confuse our users if we try to keep it in? I know this. I know that products can’t be…