Writing

Aug 2025

On SP1’s Precompiles

With two lines of code, developers can reduce the cycle cost of verifiable compute by at least 77% and cut execution time by 59%. This is all thanks to SP1's precompiles. And it costs pennies on the n...

Feb 2025

An Analysis of "An analysis of Uniswap markets"

In which I crashcourse on AMMs, forget the existence of the product rule, and fail to set Delta_alpha to 0 during the derivation of optimal arbitrage conditions :3

Dec 2024

Torturing Reason

Why do we place heavy meaning on certain moments instead of others? An action, a choice, thought; a word spoken instead of another. At times these decisions become weights of excruciating importance w...

Sep 2022

Peaceful Revolution 🏴

Eugène Delacroix. “La Liberté guidant le peuple” (1830)

Sep 2022

Cults, Ego(ism), Socialization

Cults

Apr 2022

Nueva Valencia

The Big One

Mar 2022

DAO Mycology –– HolOrgs

“If we only have words that describe neatly bounded autonomous individuals, it is easy to think they actually exist” – Sheldrake

Mar 2022

Mutualistic Species Prosperity – $EGMI

Preamble; thank you 0xcarnation for teasing my limits and Kitsama for the “good shit”...

Feb 2022

DICEology Preamble

Atomic fission can power our species several lifetimes over, or end most of it in mere minutes. Crypto, like all technology, is neutral –– credibly so, you might say

Feb 2022

Rolling Up for ChainExploration

Spend more than a day on Ethereum’s Mainnet and you’ll realize gas fees are a bottleneck. These fees go to miners –– those providing computation power to execute transactions. Every action performed...

Jan 2022

Authority, Consent, Power

"Emergent System Maximalism"

Jan 2022

A Radical Thesis for Web3

“We are servants of the Secret Fire, wielders of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass!”

Jan 2022

Voting Systems Stuff

Web3 has succeeded in making “governance” cool again. Whether through ~~air~~ responsibility drops or treasury bribes, active participation has been brought to the crypto masses. Or has it?

Nov 2021

Social Impact Era –– DAO/DIO/DIPs

After posting about LCE in the CCS DAO Discord I connected with Olli Tiainen, auth...

Nov 2021

Local Civic Engagement (LCE)

In the summer of 2020 a group of residents in the city of Palo Alto set out on a noble mission: keep elected city officials accountable for their actions, and increase transparency + participation in...

May 2020

Why

Why create Humanity Involved? What lead to this? Several things: Read ahead