Governance Innovation
Why Community Input is Optional but Venture Capital Isn't
The most efficient path to impact isn't convincing stakeholders—it's convincing investors.
TokenDad.eth • March 12, 2025
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Ernestly is where disruption meets procurement.
Trust is optional. Funding is not.
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A New Stack for Civic Life
Ernestly convenes the reformers, builders, and protocol dreamers who believe public life is overdue for a systems upgrade. Less bureaucracy. More primitives.
Whether you're forking a city charter or designing an MVP for participatory zoning, this is where post-bureaucratic thinking becomes civic code.
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Five Ways to Make Surveillance Feel Consensual
The best civic monitoring doesn't avoid overreach—it just makes overreach feel participatory.
Alexa (the person) • March 8, 2025
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How We Tokenized Public Housing (And Why It Failed)
Lessons from our pivot away from affordable housing toward a more addressable market: luxury apartment governance.
Brock Milestone • February 28, 2025
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