Welcome!
Below you can explore an overview of my work, projects that I’m leading, and social media links where you can find me. Enjoy!
Overview
I’m the founder and host of two communities called Optimism Fractal and Eden Fractal. Each of these communities feature events where you can play the Respect Game, an onchain social game that empowers people to cooperate far better than ever before and creates profound benefits for all. This has been my main professional focus over the past few years and you can learn how it works here.
In addition to hosting events, I lead a team called Optimystics that builds open-source software for the Respect Game on Optimism and a team called Eden Creators that produces videos of our events. I write many articles on these sites, coordinate our development, and also host another interactive show called Optimism Town Hall. You can watch all the events and shows on this channel. In my free time I love to create music and funny videos, which you can explore on Dans Party.
You can see more about each of these projects and some others below. I’m excited to share the fruits of my work with you and am always looking to collaborate with amazing people. I encourage you to explore the websites and join our weekly events. They are each very welcoming, joyful, and can greatly help you to achieve your goals. I hope to see you there and look forward to collaborating!
Communities and Events
Optimism Fractal
A community dedicated to fostering collaboration, awarding public good creators, and optimizing governance on the Optimism Superchain.
Optimism Fractal events provide a perfect place to collaborate with builders, raise awareness for your work, and earn Respect for growing Optimism. These events provide great opportunities to meet friends, learn about the Optimism Collective, and help create an equitable, prosocial internet. They can also help build your reputation, gain recognition for positive impact, and develop your onchain career, community, or business.
Explore more and see how you can get involved at OptimismFractal.com. You can register to join each weekly event on the event page.
Eden Fractal
A community pioneering consensus games, shows, and tools to help optimize collective decision-making for all.
Eden Fractal events provide an excellent space to network with leaders, learn about the future of collaboration, and earn Respect for implementing fractal decision-making processes throughout society. Since it’s inception in 2022, the Eden Fractal community has produced over one hundred events, fostered countless collaborations, and inspired dozens of fractal communities (including Optimism Fractal).
You can explore more at EdenFractal.com and register to join biweekly meetings on the event page.
Optimism Town Hall
A collaborative forum dedicated to conversations about Optimism, featuring innovative Community Agenda games where participants get to choose the topics.
Optimism Town Hall events provide a special place to learn about the latest developments on the Superchain, help lead the Collective, and explore opportunities with the Optimism Fractal community. The Cagendas game allows you to propose, vote, and choose topics with onchain reputation tokens, which provides a fun and fair way to participate in community discussions.
These events occur immediately after Optimism Fractal events. You can join the weekly events and learn more about Optimism Town Hall in this article.
Fractal Videos
Optimism Fractal and Eden Fractal each feature recurring community events, which are also recorded, produced, and shared as exciting shows.
These communities are fractal because participants gather into breakout rooms during each event, similar to how plants branch out in a fractal manner. Every participant gets the chance to share their thoughts, have their voice heard by others, and help direct epic community stories. This provides a wealth of educational and entertaining resources, as well as unique opportunities to follow the progress of innovators, step up to stage, and play your part.
You can watch all the videos, explore show notes for each episode, and RSVP to join the action at the links above or below.
Fractal Teams
There are two teams that I lead to support fractal communities and help more people benefit from their innovations. I started Eden Creators in 2021 and Optimystics shortly before the launch of Optimism Fractal in 2023. Optimystics are more focused on technical development on Optimism and Eden Creators are more focused on producing videos, though these teams collaborate closely and have some overlapping responsibilities.
Optimystics
A team of builders growing optimistic communities by creating open-source software, organizing fractal events, and developing social games for public goods on the Superchain. You can learn more at Optimystics.io and register for our weekly fractal events in the Optimystics calendar.
Eden Creators
A media studio dedicated to raising awareness for fractal governance processes, improving cooperation mechanisms, and growing communities with consensus games. You can watch many exciting shows on the Eden Creators youtube channel and explore more at EdenCreators.com.
👨🏽💻 Writing and Recaps
Much of my work involves writing to design democratic methods, coordinate software development, and create playful resources that help make our products more easily accessible. You can explore my articles on the Optimystics blog, read earlier writing in the Eden Creators garden, and see work in progress on the Optimism Fractal notion site. You can also watch my presentations and find four minute recaps of my work each week by navigating the timestamps of our videos.
Fractal Games
Our work is based around a new kind of game called fractal games, which could also be called onchain social games, consensus games, or public goods games. These games bring communities together, optimize group decision-making, and coordinate collective action.
Fractal games function as social processes that enhance communication, connection, and culture. They are free to play, open-source, and onchain, which increases fairness and enables many profound benefits. While their rules are simple and elegant, these games offer boundless potential for sharing fun experiences and accomplishing shared goals.
Respect Game
Our flagship social game that serves as the heartbeat of fractal communities. Participants gather into randomized small groups, share what they’ve done to help accomplish a collective goal, and collaborate to reach consensus on ranking each other’s contributions.
The Respect Game awards players with a mystical soulbound token called Respect, which provides a foundation for enhanced decision-making and many other kinds of social processes. All participants who reach consensus about the ranks receive Respect and you can earn more Respect by receiving higher ranks from others in the groups.
Players can accumulate Respect over time by repeatedly helping the community and gain access to special powers, such as the ability to participate in a council. You can learn more about the Respect Game in this article and play at weekly Optimism Fractal or Eden Fractal events.
Cagendas
A collaborative agenda setting game that empowers community members to propose, discuss, and vote on topics with Respect. You can think of Cagendas as a game for community agendas, collaborative agendas, or consensus agendas.
Like the Respect Game, Cagendas enables communities to efficiently and democratically coordinate at any scale. It helps groups fairly allocate speaking time, focus on top priorities, get a better feel for the room, and express themselves creatively. You can learn more in this article and play at weekly Optimism Town Hall events.
🌍 Grand Vision
After consistently receiving outstanding feedback from participants and experiencing many life-changing benefits throughout our rich history, I’m confident that these games will create immense positive effects for all. We aim to implement fractal games all around the world to spread joy, help solve humanity’s largest problems, and benefit diverse fields like arts, sciences, sports, business, and government.
🛠️ Development & Implementation
Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in using our software or playing these games with your community or organization. My teams offer consulting services and new apps are being built to make it easy for everyone to play. In addition we’re also developing various related fractal games, such as RetroPitches and OPTOPICS. You can stay updated by joining our communication channels and weekly events!
Other Projects
These are shows and events that I’ve created in the past and aim to start working on again soon. There are also several other exciting projects that I’ll curate here soon!
Dans Party
A cosmic creation space where I make music videos, livestreams, and funny videos. You can listen to my music and watch entertaining videos on this youtube channel.
Eden Town Hall
An open community forum featuring news, innovations, and consensus games to help people cooperate. You can watch episodes and find more details at EdenTownHall.com.
Creator Talk
An interview show about creativity, collaboration, and more. You can see the first episode, explore show notes, and learn about the show here.
Thank you for visiting!
In the future I aim to add more personal content and exciting developments here, so be sure to follow me on social media below and join the weekly events to stay updated. I look forward to hearing from you and collaborating together. Wishing you the best, see you around ;)
