Carl Cervone
Weeknotes:
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
OSO cross-posts:
- Analyzing the impact of Retro Funding Season 7: Developer Tooling
- Analyzing the impact of Retro Funding Season 7: Onchain Builders
- 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