Carl Cervone

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Essays:

• A Eulogy for USAID
• 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:

• Opening up the ballot box (RF6 edition)
• Early experiments with synthetic controls and causal inference
• Opening up the ballot box (RF5 edition)
• 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