Carl Cervone
Essays:
- Building a network of Impact Data Scientists
- Coffee needs protocol leaders
- A longitudinal assessment of Gitcoin Grants impact on open source developer activity
- Opening the RetroPGF ballot box: analysis on 21,813 anonymous votes
- What builders can learn from RetroPGF 3: separating the signal from the noise
- Running the wrong marathon
- Long tail public goods funding
- Levels of the game: the psychology of RetroPGF and how to build a better game
- Cradle-to-unicorn public goods funding
- Analysis on the 300+ OSS projects applying for RetroPGF 3
- The most interesting economic experiment you’ve never heard of
- The past, present and future of public goods funding
- A call for more programmable retro-funding for digital public goods
- Maximizing the impact of RetroPGF: a review of RPGF2 and ideas for how data can improve future iterations
- The career of Albert Tucker: an oral history project
- Imagining a brighter future for democracy: optimism, innovation, and intelligence
- Funding for impact, not intention: a new era of creativity and risk-taking for public goods
- Impact evaluations for 158 Gitcoin Grants - and the 30 I chose to fund
- A Greenpill manifesto
- Reflections from my first days working on hypercerts
- Does your food have eight forms of capital in it?
- Towards a pluralism passport built from desoc legos
- Reflections on Funding the Commons (NYC June 2022)
- A 14 day immersion to web3
- TLDR - Reinventing Organizations (“Teal”)
- Here’s a free, no-code way to email POAP links to a big group
- How to stop climate change (without getting lucky)
- Top 10 types of carbon credit offset projects globally
- A 6 step primer for how farmers can earn carbon credits
- Web3 will enable the gift economy and the market economy to play together in completely new ways
- Skeptical of crypto? here are 4 projects to broaden your perspective
- Topographic colormaps
- Joyplotting coffee and altitude
- A snapshot of coffee farming conditions in Yemen
- It’s 2020: The role data can play in achieving the next decade’s sustainability targets
- On the road to Agaro
- Trip report on China’s coffee sector
- Relections on a trip to Yunnan and Papua New Guinea
- Applying the Harper’s Index to the NYC subway
- NYC Pizza Bracket: a quest to find the best pizzeria in New York City
- The Lemon Award: a case study on financial transparency & good governance in cooperatives
- Busa Bechane and the arrest of Abaznab
- Mobile deposit vouchers (a pre-MPesa concept note for mobile banking)
- Mailing provisions to Tanzania
- My grant proposal for a DIY Peace Corps experience
- A cleaner world, door by door