On 15 Mar 2019, Yale-NUS College hosted a hack4climate.live pecha kucha night focusing on social impact projects in the blockchain space. This is a rapid-fire style of knowledge sharing, where each presenter has 15 slides and goes through them at the rate of 20 seconds per slide. It made for a streamlined presentation of each project’s ‘headlines’; but to really digest what we learned, we decided to spend some time on deeper research.

A designer, a developer, a community organiser, a data scientist, a marketing executive, an asker of questions, a historian, a computer science student, and an astronomer walk into a shophouse on Jln Pinang…

RadicalxChange is a foundation led by economist Glen Weyl, built on the discussion that grew around Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (2018). The book pointed out flaws in existing markets and political systems, and proposed radical ways of restructuring property, voting, immigration, antitrust, and data ownership.