Archive
The complete record. Essays, working notes, past projects, and talks going back to 2018. The homepage keeps the short list; everything else stays here.
Essays
- Postmortem on Hip4Markets.com - I bet a HIP-4 prediction markets frontend could earn builder fees. It resolved NO. What the data showed and what I kept.
- Tokens vs Tokens - Crypto tokens were built to be held. AI tokens get burned the second they exist. What crypto can learn from its better-behaved namesake.
- Solving Problems in Abundance - On what stays scarce when everything else is cheap.
- The Oracle Machine - On prediction markets, reasoning agents, and the last job worth having.
- DAOs are out, ADOs are in - Why DAOs never worked, and what AI delegation changes.
- The 2028 Abundance Thesis - A response to Citrini Research's bear case.
- The Market Always Knows - A short story about a city that handed policy to prediction markets.
Notes & Experiments
- x402 and the Agentic Web - Payment requests bundled into the endpoint itself, and what that does for trading agents.
- On Agency - A working note on what agency actually means, and wanting to want more.
- ICONIC: A Travel Photo Guide - Case study for a curated photo-spot app. Shot recipes, map packs, and what we learned building it.
- World Building - Scenes from the frontier.
Past Work
- Infinite Ads - The people need more ads. I'm here to give it to them.
- ACE Kids - Crypto education & smart wallets for kids.
- Market Rivals - Betting on the stock market against your friends.
- Juicy - Solana integrated on-chain social bets against your friends.
- Network School - Living on the Frontier of the Network State.
- SpeakEasy - The easiest way to get your message across.
- Alle Aesthetics - Best in class app for HIPAA compliant rewards and referrals.
- West Coast NFTs - Full Service Blue Chip NFT Development.
- OrderUp - The most simple & affordable restaurant POS.
- Weel - Mobile Mechanic at your fingertips.
Talks & Articles
- Converting a Complex React Native Class Camera Component to Hooks
- Building a serverless chatbot with AWS Lex, Lambda and Amazon Aurora
- Expo Developer Feature: Simon Stern
- Building a chatbot with AWS: Lex and Lambda
- Comparing React Native Boilerplates
- Workshopping Augmented Reality with ViroReact
- How to deploy a serverless endpoint on AWS in under 5 minutes