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The Myth of the Invisible Hand
When I wrote “ How do we work our way towards utopia? ” a question kept ringing in my head: ‘uh, what about the economic system we...
Charley Johnson
Oct 6, 20246 min read


In crypto, everything is a ponzi...until sometimes, it's not.
Imagine if Uber built its driver network by offering drivers ‘Uber Tokens.’ Imagine further that these tokens functioned like equity,...
Charley Johnson
Mar 3, 20246 min read


Venture capitalists are the new narrators of crypto
That’s a big problem, and not for the reason you might think. Steve Jobs once said, “The most powerful person in the world is the...
Charley Johnson
Sep 4, 20226 min read


DeFI is an accident waiting to happen
But don’t blame ‘bad actors’ — accidents are a failure of the system Is DeFi a house of cards? As I write, the Celsius Network, which is...
Charley Johnson
Jul 3, 20226 min read
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