Carl Cervone
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Essays:
Neapolitan pizza is superior to all other forms of pizza
W.A.R. for public goods
Opening up the ballot box again (RF4 edition)
What’s been the impact of Retro Funding so far?
Measuring the impact of open source software (Funding the Commons April 2024)
A deep dive on impact metrics for Retro Funding 4
The most important lesson that I learned in my 20s
Exporting public goods funding beyond our immediate circles
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