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NOAHSASO

about

hi! i really like building cool things and am particularly interested in foundational technologies that bring us closer together. graduating from berkeley in 2022 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, i quickly found my way into the world of DAOs—a novel digital primitive that serves to reclaim collective agency of our communities, systems, and resources.

“Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.” The Overstory by Richard Powers

recent projects

a modular & open source DAO management platform

a DAO is an organization democratically controlled by its members. think worker-owned cooperative business structure, with communally-chosen rules & procedures enforced through software instead of the overly bureaucratic and expensive legal system. essentially, a DAO is a cross between a transparent, secure voting system and a bank account that doesn't rely on a corruptable centralized authority. optimistically, DAOs lower the financial, technical, and geographical barriers to organizing a collective around a mission.

mobile friendly website, usable offline, free forever

Salvum consolidates harm reduction resources in one place in an effort to make safety in or around altered states of consciousness as easy as possible. it aggregates substance and interaction information from open databases of psychoactive compounds.

second place at Cal Hacks 6.0, created in under 36 hours

steganography tool able to encode/decode images with encrypted text (currently using PGP) in an undetectable way that survives industry-standard image compression, making it easy to send encrypted messages through insecure channels without alerting anyone to the presence of encrypted communications.