- I went to grad school to solve the crisis in consumer privacy that resulted from adversarial products and data-for-service business models that decouple users (creators) from purchasing power and compensation.
- Crypto was a watershed moment in my research on digital privacy and autonomy.
- How do we build the future we want? We start with acknowledging the primacy of incentives: every system is perfectly designed for the outcome it's currently producing.
- I reject both the China-led innovation model (because of its grim view of human value) and the Big Tech Is Evil paradigm (because it’s naive). There’s a third way: crypto can be the unlock.
- We now have this once-in-a-scientific-revolution opportunity to shape our tools with the benefit of hindsight from the social media era, and we must not squander it.