Projects

In 2023, I received a grant from Ethereum Foundation to be a fellow of the Summer of Protocols research program. My topic was workplace health and safety protocols, and I proposed a general theory of protocol evolution based on an analysis of the coal mining industry. Protocols are emerging as a first-class concept in a world where traditional economic thinking fails to account for real-world complexity.

I now help manage the program's community and newsletter.

After the pandemic hit, I moved to my Canadian hometown of Whitehorse, Yukon. There I had the opportunity to work in an internal consulting unit of the Government of Yukon. My ~3 years there were spent designing a new safety management system for the organizations 6,000+ employees, creating dashboards for safety and health data, doing strategic planning, advising executives, and conducting policy research.

From 2019 to 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic, I helped establish the Quantum Algorithms Institute. With $25 million in seed funding from the Government of British Columbia, the QuAI continues to operate as a public-private partnership with local universities and businesses. Its mandate is to accelerate research into algorithms that can take advantage of the unique strengths of exotic computational hardware.