Learnings on DAO governance and thoughts on the future of decentralized organizations.

How Crypto and EA Can Avoid the Next FTX

The collapse of FTX is a Rorschach test, for some confirming their suspicions of crypto, for others, the EA movement. But who is right, and what can we learn?

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June 22, 2022

Zoning Should Be Unconstitutional

Scott Fitsimones

Time to abolish zoning and make it legal to build better cities.

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June 2, 2022

Best DAOs to Join for 2023

Scott Fitsimones

Here is a living list of DAOs you can actually start contributing to now.

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February 21, 2022

The DAO Social Contract

Scott Fitsimones

The DAO suffix should not be a ridiculed as meaningless vestige, but instead be seen as a commitment to DAO principles.

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February 8, 2022

A Simple Proposal to Fix San Francisco

Scott Fitsimones

Expand the board of supervisors from 11 to 13 and elect 2 supervisors using at-large elections.

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January 2, 2022

Announcing calendar.org - an experiment in Harberger Taxes on the Blockchain

Scott Fitsimones

Today I’m launching calendar.org - a collection of 365 NFTs on Ethereum - one for each Gregorian Calendar day from January 1st to December 31st. The owner of the day gets the special privilege of naming the day, but that ownership is subject to the Harberger Tax.

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August 31, 2021

How and why to build a city on the blockchain

Scott Fitsimones

A couple months ago, I accidentally started CityDAO, a community of people interested in putting a piece of land on the blockchain. Since the initial tweet, 2,500+ have joined our Discord and we've sold over 250k in NFTs to raise funding for the first parcel of land in Wyoming.

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August 17, 2021

San Francisco's Most Absurd Zoning Policies

Scott Fitsimones

There are so many absurd zoning policies to choose from.

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August 17, 2021

Heuristics for choosing Good VCs

Scott Fitsimones

Since we just raised a round at AirGarage, I wanted to share some heuristics that might help you think about what to look for in a VC.

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August 17, 2021

Learnings from a Conversation on Fixing Education

Scott Fitsimones

Recently I had a conversation with two smart friends about a passion of mine, fixing education, and I wanted to start a living document a few of the learnings. We came from 3 different countries and school systems, so there were some interesting perspectives.

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August 17, 2021

Fear and Dilution

Scott Fitsimones

Fear of missing out and greed are the two most powerful forces motivating investors, but what motivates founders to take an investment?

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August 17, 2021

Principles for Livable Cities

Scott Fitsimones

In building AirGarage, we have seen how a generation of automobile-centric urban planning has created sprawling cities, optimized for cars, not people.

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August 17, 2021