Carl Cervone
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Essays:
You should spend more time on the bird app: a review of rotki
Benchmarking ChatGPT 4o and Perplexity atomic essay writing capabilities
The most important lesson that I learned in my 20s
Exporting public goods funding beyond our immediate circles
Coffee needs protocol leaders
Running the wrong marathon
Long tail public goods funding
Cradle-to-unicorn public goods funding
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
The career of Albert Tucker: an oral history project
Imagining a brighter future for democracy
Funding for impact, not intention: a new era of creativity and risk-taking for public goods
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”)
How to stop climate change (without getting lucky)
Here’s a free, no-code way to email POAP links to a big group
Top 10 types of carbon credit offset projects globally
Notes on the intersection of gift and market economies
Skeptical of crypto? here are 4 projects to broaden your perspective
Topographic colormaps
A 6 step primer for how farmers can earn carbon credits
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
Open Source Observer cross-posts:
W.A.R. for public goods
Building a network of Impact Data Scientists
Opening up the ballot box again (RF4 edition)
What’s been the impact of Retro Funding so far?
A deep dive on impact metrics for Retro Funding 4
Measuring the impact of open source software (Funding the Commons April 2024)
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
Levels of the game: the psychology of RetroPGF and how to build a better game
Analysis on the 300+ OSS projects applying for RetroPGF 3
Maximizing the impact of RetroPGF: a review of RPGF2 and ideas for how data can improve future iterations
Impact evaluations for 158 Gitcoin Grants - and the 30 I chose to fund