

Crypto-economics. Social change through incentivizing collaboration. Community builder. CTO Verity. Systems thinker and builder.
…says: enslaving and brutalizing the world was a wonderful thing! Why, we civilized those barbarians! My discipline — economics — is basically a long restatement of violence in the form of equations. Modern conservatism is essentially this belief system — and so is what passes for “liberalism” in A…
So we designed our way out of the problem and came up with the Button chair, a simple design we give away to schools as a digital file. They just take a sheet of plywood and put it on a CNC router, which is a robotic chisel that cuts shapes you tell it to cut. About 200 schools have downloaded our file, which cuts out chair pieces that snap together with a self-locking joint we invented. The tipping mechanism is a used tennis ball.
Standing desks are also a complete failure. There was a paper out in 2018 that followed 7,300 people for 10 years, half of them in sitting occupations, half standing. Those standing had twice the rate of heart attacks. When you’re upright and walking, your leg muscles are moving rhythmically, squeezing the veins and pumping blood back to your heart. When you stand still, the vessels just dilate in your legs and the blood just sits there. You’re setting up the conditions for a heart attack. You can die like that.