The Journal
Longer writing on the move from humanitarian communication into crypto, on investor education, distributed work, and the habits that quietly decide whether a field can be trusted.
You will find pieces here that take their time. Some are personal. Some are structural. All of them are written with the same premise: that complex fields get better when more people write carefully inside them.
Featured essay
The thesis piece. Why the skills developed across fifteen years of humanitarian work are almost always the exact skills the private sector is short on, and why the translation is a vocabulary problem rather than a capability problem.
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Five days at a crypto research firm, in the voice of a former humanitarian. The research, coordination, translation, and measurement habits that travel quietly across.
ReadA case study in applying the humanitarian toolbox to a live venture, from research and regulatory work through product launch and the hard weeks that followed.
ReadA humanitarian's field guide to the private-sector transition. Twenty concrete skills, what each one involves in the field, and how it translates almost directly into private-sector work.
ReadWhy I am moving from humanitarian communication into crypto research, operations support, and investor education - and why I am documenting that transition in public.
ReadLessons from humanitarian communication that still matter when writing about crypto, users, products, and decision-making.
ReadA practical approach to studying crypto slowly, critically, and without letting hype replace understanding.
ReadIf people are expected to make informed choices, the guidance around crypto has to become clearer, calmer, and more responsible.
ReadThis site is not only about crypto. It is also about transition, discipline, and how a new direction is built over time.
ReadWhat distributed work taught me about coordination, writing, and process - and why those lessons still matter in crypto-adjacent environments.
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