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
noahchonlee
- Jul 9
- 13 min
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 9
- 4 min
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 28
- 3 min
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 6
- 3 min
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 29
- 6 min
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 27
- 12 min
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 27
- 3 min
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 24
- 21 min
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 20
- 12 min
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 16
- 4 min
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 26
- 14 min
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 25
- 13 min
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 19
- 5 min
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 19
- 6 min
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, 2023
- 3 min
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, 2023
- 9 min
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, 2023
- 21 min
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, 2023
- 5 min
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, 2023
- 7 min
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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