What am I exploring / working on right now?
Last Updated April 2025
Top 3:
- Contributing to Full Sail, a vote escrow(4,4) AMM on Sui
- The people are and product are so based. The protocol is an actual experiment in coordination, not just extractive yield farming DeFi BS of epochs past.
- Working on blog posts, social coordination (ambassador and awareness programs), and simplifying the value prop for broader (non-degen) audiences.
- Financial modeling on tokenomics and emissions and comparing to existing projects like Aerodrome to highlight advantages.
- Learning how to explain ideas like “governance as coordination infrastructure” without making people’s eyes bleed.
- Stressing and prepping for an open-source AI hardware opportunity
- Cold emailed the founder of a unicorn when I heard he was building this. It worked.
- Happened to be in the Bay visiting family when he replied. Met for coffee, talked about the future of AI at the edge, sovereignty, UX design for multimodal assistants, and compute ownership as a new category of personhood.
- Visiting the office next month. Trying not to overthink it. Failing.
- Side note: my cold email rizz is unmatched.
- Stressing about an opportunity with BTC AI Startup Lab
- It’s a global incubator for non-technical + technical founders to build AI x crypto startups. It has at least three (3) buzzwords in the name.
- I like Bitcoin.
- I like AI.
- But the equity structure makes me cautious.
- Probably? joining for exposure and potential signal, but still deciding how much weight to give it in the broader arc.
Recurring themes for me:
- Trying to move from exploration to commitment
- While exploring all the opportunities in front of me
- While not choosing the wrong ones
- While not knowing the future and knowing I will have to try the wrong ones to eventually find the perfect one
- While still trying to find the perfect one
- Protecting my own attention while investigating attention-eating algorithms and the attention economy at large
- Consciously designing the life I want before it gets overdetermined by external validation
- And also before (potentially) AGI kind of solidifies where everyone is in the social order