How the San Francisco Government Works
THEORY OF CHANGE Why are we stuck with terrible choices in political candidates? Because we need more people with a basic level of...
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Noah Chon Lee
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Jul 913 min read
When I Drove To The Ukraine War
Last year I drove to the eastern front of the Ukraine War to deliver medical supplies. This post focuses on that experience. For a post...
noahchonlee
Jul 94 min read
My First Days in Ukraine
[Warning: Graphic Contents] Arrival I arrived the 26th of May of 2023, one day after saying farewell to friends at a two-month long tech...
noahchonlee
Jun 283 min read
A Kid At the Shelter Was Adopted!
A couple months ago Francisco and I launched the initiative to create a kids' shelter in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador:...
noahchonlee
May 63 min read
How to Bring Credit Card Payments to web3 Crowdfunding Platforms
TL;DR Accept the fiat and turn it into crypto, then send that crypto into the crowdfunding campaign on behalf of the user like so… Option...
noahchonlee
Mar 296 min read
We're Starting a Kids' Shelter in Ecuador! The Story of Nueva Esperanza
tl;dr Nueva Esperanza or “New Hope” is a project to start a kids' shelter in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador. This project is led by...
noahchonlee
Mar 2712 min read
Why Should We Care About Charter Cities and Special Economic Zones?
TL;DR Governments are generally monopolies without any competition incentivizing them to improve. Special economic zones and charter...
noahchonlee
Mar 273 min read
How to Create a Tokenized Asset Registry In a Special Economic Zone
In El Salvador, I just tried to buy a motorcycle and found out I needed to receive a local ID number by visiting an office and showing my...
noahchonlee
Mar 2421 min read
Lessons Learned from Zuzalu Inspired Pop Up Villages
A recap of Zuzalu inspired pop up villages The following are futurist oriented temporary coliving and coworking gatherings that...
noahchonlee
Mar 2012 min read
What Is a Zuzalu Style Event?
From Mar 25 to May 25 of 2023, the first Zuzalu style event gathered 200 residents in Montenegro in Europe. Since this inciting...
noahchonlee
Mar 164 min read
How to Find The Best Way To Fund Public Goods
What if we could test out various economic mechanisms by disbursing funding in favelas in Brazil? We intend to change the definition of...
noahchonlee
Feb 2614 min read
What I Learned in Syria and Why I Believe In D/acc
Hanging out with random kids we met in the park In November of 2023, I and my filmmaker friend Rachel Shu traveled through the Autonomous...
noahchonlee
Feb 2513 min read
Why I Left AI for Web3
Why I Joined AI A year and a half ago I was homeless. I was doing all of these things simultaneously: - Full time student at UC Berkeley...
noahchonlee
Feb 195 min read
How to Decentralize AI
Written Mar 3, 2023 and posted on my old Substack blog. Moved to Wix so I could embed AI chatbots into blog posts. Why Decentralizing AI...
noahchonlee
Feb 196 min read
How Blockchain Can Save the Internet from Deepfakes
This video was generated by AI. How Can We Trust the Internet Anymore? With AI generated videos of this quality, we will see an...
noahchonlee
Oct 11, 20233 min read
How We Brought Democracy to Hackathons
viaPrize held its first ever hackathon! We aimed to fix hackathons by encouraging longer-term project development and democratically...
noahchonlee
Aug 5, 20239 min read
Prizes as the Missing Middle Road in Public Goods Funding
In the public goods funding ecosystem, there is a balance to be found between confidence for funders and stability for builders. On the...
noahchonlee
May 25, 202321 min read
An Intro to Guild Theory
Guild theory is a model for scalable community centered cultural design. Thank you to the community builders, researchers, and...
noahchonlee
May 18, 20235 min read
How to Recycle Funds to Your Areas of Focus
The platform viaPrize allows people to crowdfund project proposals/specific solutions. Whoever makes a successful solution/completes the...
noahchonlee
May 12, 20237 min read
How I Want My Kids to Live - The Long Term Plan for viaPrize
A World I Would Want My Kids to Live In Imagine waking up in your own home, yawning, stretching, then stepping out your door. You splash...
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