Is Crypto Governance Dead? w/ Eugene Leventhal | Devconnect 2025
In this episode recorded at DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sit down with Eugene Leventhal (researcher at Metagov, podcaster at Governance Futures, new head of governance at Octant) to discuss the curre...
12 Jan 56min
How to send cryptocurrency to Gaza
Note that this is from a video essay published on YouTube here. For over a year, I've been helping people send aid to Gaza via cryptocurrency because traditional banking systems have failed Palestinia...
22 Dec 202516min
Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow
In this episode I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of Logos, and Peter Ludlow, philosopher and research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book 'Farewell to Westphalia.' In...
23 Nov 20251h 6min
Free Markets Are Planned: The Neoliberal Paradox with Christoph Sorg
Dr. Christoph Sorg is a social scientist at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He researches theories of capitalism and post-capitalism and the new debate on economic planning in times of digitalizat...
20 Nov 20251h 6min
Weaponized Design and the Digital Identity Event Horizon with Cade Diehm
I spoke to Cade Diehm, Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation and founder of New Design Congress, an independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening...
21 Okt 20251h 39min
Nepal, DAOs and Secret Voting with Aragon CEO Leuts.eth
I spoke to Leuts.eth, CEO of Aragon, a DAO tooling protocol that gives organizations the tools to build, govern, and accrue value effectively onchain. Aragon was probably the first organization I beca...
24 Sep 20251h
NETWORKED REALISM: Whoever Controls the Infrastructure, Controls Reality
It's feeling like we're living in a very strange moment in time where liberal norms of openness have been shattered by the same class of tech industry titans who expressed these values just a decade a...
28 Aug 20251h 38min
Slavoj Zizek on Network States
The one and only Slavoj Zizek published a piece on Network States and of course I had to read it and share it with you all. It's normally behind a paywall on his Substack but was put on Fileverse by r...
17 Aug 202517min
