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Articles & Publications

• SSRN: Context Is All You Need (2025)

• SSRN: The Next Phase of the Data Economy: Economic & Technological Perspectives (2025)

• Harvard Business Review: The Year in Tech, 2024 (2024)

• The New School: Walking Backwards Into The Future (2023)

• A16Z: Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework (2023)

• SSRN: Toward A More Cooperative Web (2023)

• Harvard Business Review: Why Build in “Web3”? (2022)

• WIRED Japan: Wellness and the new Web (2022)

• The Future of Text Journal 1.2: Guest Feature (2022)

• The Future of Text v2 book chapter: The bookshelf as a record of who I am...and who I was (2021)

• Future: With Decentralized Identity, Your Reputation Travels With You Across Cyberspace (2021)

• Future: A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems (2021)

• Mirror: From Winner Take All to Win and Help Win: the Original Vision of the Internet is Making a Comeback (2021)

• SSRN: A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project (2021)

• Berkman Klein Centre Collection: Provocations for a better internet (2021)

• Berkman Klein Centre Collection: Bad incentives ruined the internet (2020)

• HackerNoon: Is Building Digital Escapes Ethical? (2020)

• Predict: Designing for the majority - most of us are content curators, not content creators! (2020)

• Kauffman Journal: Why so emotional? The ethics of using emotion data to improve UX (2020)

• The StartUp: Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Europe vs the US (2019)

• The StartUp: Is It Objectionable for Social Media Companies to Use Your Personal Data for Targeted Advertising? (2019)

• The StartUp: The future of music is at risk: music discovery is no longer an emotional experience (2019)

• The Data-Driven Investor: Minimizing Decision Fatigue Through Machine Learning @ TripAdvisor (2018)

• Wamda: 5 steps to startup video stardom (2017)

Talks & Panels

• Mozilla Festival: The Collective Land Grab Reshaping the Internet

• Mozilla Festival: Building Better Social: Lessons on (Re)Building Social

• Tethics & Chill: Agency in a Datified World (2025)

• Ofcom: The Evolution of Internet Platforms (2024)

• SXSW: Startups / Interactive Media Mentor (‘19, ‘20, ‘22, ‘23)

• Harvard Business School: Guest Lecture on Internet Identity Futures for Prof Shai Bernstein & Prof Scott Kominers class (2023)

• University of Pennsylvania Law School: Guest Lecture at AI Policy Lab with Prof de Silva de Alwis (2022, 2023)

• Round: The re-decentralization of the web (2022)

• Harvard Law School: “Web3”: What is it and does it matter? (2022)

• Platform Coops Conference: Distributed Autonomous Organizations and Cooperatives (2022)

• Cornell Tech: Direct-to-Consumer Media with Prof John Deighton (2022)

• Rough Draft Ventures University: Class on business strategy + business models (2022)

• M13 Ventures: Roadmapping your startup from zero to one (2022)

• Future of Text Symposium: Human Centered Discovery

• NFT NYC: Change, Impact & Provocations for a Better Internet (2021, 2022)

• Berkman Klein Centre: What we can learn from early online platforms (2021)

• YouTube: Hosted and Spoke at dozens of YouTube Creator events (2015-2018)

• UNICEF: Global Innovation Keynote & Panel (2017)

Media Interviews & Podcasts

• Tasteland Podcast: Shelf Life (2025)

• Techcrunch: Shelf is a social network based on the media you consume (2024)

• Unstoppable: What the Future of Digital Identity Will Look Like (2022)

• NEWFORUM: DWeb Design Thinking (2022)

• WIRED Japan: Digital Ownership & Wellbeing (2022)

• AlArabiya Digital: A critique of crypto (2022)

• Quartz: Listen to the Crypto Converts (2021)

• Forward Thinking Founders: Co-hosting The Sunday Roundup (2020)

• Just Go Grind: Jad Esber on Leaving Google for Harvard, Starting a Business While Getting an MBA, and Engineering Serendipity (2019)

• Fundraising Radio: Consumer Internet fundraising (2020)

• HBS Entrepreneurship Podcast: Interview with Eric Paley of Founder Collective (2019)

• HBS Entrepreneurship Podcast: Interview with Jason Calacanis (2020)

Fellowships

• John Stuart Mill Fellow, Mercatus Center George Mason University

• Affiliate, Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard

• Affiliate, Institute for Digital Cooperative Economy at The New School

• Fellow, Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard

Exhibitions & Installations

• Living By Protocol: Presented by metaLAB at Lightbox Gallery at the Harvard Art Museums