I’m thrilled to announce I’ve joined the governance board of Superset, a new DAO with a challenging but important mission: To give people more control and better benefits from their own user data. We all know the problem. When we sign up for an online service, we quickly click Agree…

Product Design & Automation Systems Read Part 1 here In the first post of this series, we conducted a short survey of cybernetics, explaining the theory’s importance to understanding how systems shape everything around us, from personal health to disruptions of the global economy. For this post, let’s look at…

Introduction & Examples, from Personal Health to Product Design — Consider your body right now as you read this post. Are you keeping track of all of the processes in it that keep your heart beating and your temperature at around 98.6F/37C? When we live our lives, play with kids, go to work, exercise, and go about our daily activities…

I had a great time touring the huge CES 2023 showroom last week in search of products that align with the principles of Calm Technology. …

If you’re at CES 2023, I hope you stop by Venetian Expo Level 2, Booth #50027 for a demo of Calm Sleeping Space from mui Lab, a Kyoto-based startup that I am very honored to advise. The company is built on Calm Tech principles; their team even worked with a…

Browsers are the lens through which we see the web. …

Grant for the Web — Feedback from Creators One Year In If you haven’t heard about Grant for the Web yet, you should! GftW is a fund housed at the Interledger Foundation to drive innovation in Web Monetization and Open Payments. …

Puma Browser is one of a handful of browsers experimenting with Web3 integrations. The team focuses on privacy, payment integrations and creator compensation. In this post, we’ll be taking a deep dive into how Puma has integrating Web3 into its browser and the motivations for each one. Many major browsers…

Dinner DAO: How to Have Your NFTs & Eat Them Too! Unlock Grantee Austin Robey recently concocted one of the most practical applications of NFTs I’ve seen using Unlock’s protocol: Meeting IRL over a great meal. Inspired by the logic and tooling of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), Austin’s Dinner DAO…