Category: depubdiaries
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What my African-American family taught me about permanence
I think it speaks to the magic of America that the lives of an African-American farmer in rural, southern Arkansas, born just 2 generations from slavery, could become entwined with a Korean-American, an immigrant just 1 generation removed from the trauma of war. When I first shook my grandfather-in-law’s hand as I introduced him to…
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From Apple to depub.space: Bill Fenwick’s impact on my life
Bill Fenwick’s fingerprints are all over my life: from the Apple devices that I use too many times a day (he incorporated Apple for Steve Jobs), to the social media platform I plan to use to share this blog post (his firm, Fenwick and West, took Facebook public in 2012); to the decentralized social media…
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web3 is Lessig’s child
Do you recognize the name, Lawrence Lessig? Despite being his spiritual children, many in web3 do not. For them, “Code is Law” is a mission statement; not an analytical framework. In the late 90s, Lawrence Lessig gained […]